Start-up organizations are disrupting previously stable industries with new business models. Existing organizations in these environments need to strategically improvise, that is develop the ability to rapidly seize opportunities, and without prior planning, creatively reconfigure their operational capabilities. As a dynamic capability, strategic improvisation (SI) requires three factors: real-...

Abstract—In the last decades, concerns about the environmental issues lead to professional and academic efforts on green supplier selection problems. In this sake, one of the main issues in evaluating the green supplier selection problems, which could increase the uncertainty, is the preferences of the experts' judgments about the candidate green suppliers. Therefore, preparing an expert system...

Recently, a new model based on Pythagorean fuzzy set (PFS) has been presented to manage the uncertainty in real-world decision-making problems. PFS has much stronger ability than intuitionistic fuzzy set to model such uncertainty. In this paper, we define some novel operational laws of PFSs and discuss their desirable properties. For the multicriteria decision-making problems with PFSs, we prop...

There are more than twenty widely used e-indexes which are used to measure ICT Adoption all over the world. It might be a problem to choose ones to analyze the ICT dynamics or to compare the levels of ICT development in different regions of the world. So first the most common eindexes were reviewed. Then the comparative analysis of the e-indexes structure has been done. The coherence of the e-i...

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Entry to home ownership (EHO) is one of the most significant steps that a household takes during household careers (1). It is not only an economic decision of households but also a social and cultural attitude towards housing. It has spatial repercussions within the urban arena as well. In the literature, the process of entry to home ownership has been studied numerous times (Fejitsen and Mulde...

Several authors have introduced global aggregation operators as families of aggregation operators {Tn}n, being each one of these Tn the n-ary operator in charge of aggregation, if and only if the number of items being actually aggregated is n. But according to this general definition, it is clear that operators within the same family may be not related at all. In this paper we shall point out t...