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ECONOMIC RESEARCH-EKONOMSKA ISTRAZIVANJA
Volume 33, Issue 1, Pages 974-998Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/1331677X.2020.1736117
Keywords
Linguistic Pythagorean fuzzy (L; P; F; ) set; combinative distance-based assessment (C; O; D; A; S; ); multi-criteria group decision-making (M; C; D; G; M; )
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- Social Science in Universities of Key Project of Anhui Province [SK2019A0116]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71572040, 2017YYRW07]
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) [RGPIN-2018-05529]
- Natural Science in Universities of General Project of Anhui Province [TSKJ2017B22]
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This article addresses the issue of selecting Financial Strategies in Multi-National companies (F.S.M.). The F.S.M. typically has to consider multiple factors involving multiple stakeholders and, hence, can be handled by applying an appropriate Multi-Criteria Group Decision-Making (M.C.G.D.M.) approach. To address this issue, we develop an M.C.G.D.M. framework to tackle the F.S.M. problem. To handle inherent uncertainty in business decisions as reflected by linguistic reasoning, we embark on constructing a Linguistic Pythagorean Fuzzy (L.P.F.) M.C.G.D.M. framework that is capable of tackling both uncertain decision information and linguistic variables. The proposed approach extends the combinative distance-based assessment (C.O.D.A.S.) method into the L.P.F. environment, and processes decision input expressed as Pythagorean fuzzy sets (P.F.S.) and pure linguistic variables (rather than converting linguistic information into fuzzy numbers). The developed L.P.F.-C.O.D.A.S. technique aggregates the L.P.F. information and is applied to the F.S.M. problem with uncertain linguistic information. A comparative analysis is carried out to compare the results obtained from the proposed L.P.F.-C.O.D.A.S. approach with those from other extensions of C.O.D.A.S. Furthermore, a sensitivity analysis is conducted to check the impact of changes in a distance threshold parameter on the ranking results.
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