An Operations Research-Based Morphological Analysis to Support Environmental Management Decision-Making

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2016-05-18

Authors

Jorge Freire de Sousa (Author) FEUP; Maria de Fátima Teles (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: Decision Support Systems VI - Addressing Sustainability and Societal Challenges

Pages: 16-30

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Authenticus ID: P-00K-GYS

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-32877-5_2

Abstract (EN): In this paper the authors present a meta-model aiming to support decision-makers that wish to know more about how to use systems models to cope with the integration of environmental concerns into the company strategy. This is made by using a General Morphological Analysis (GMA) to bridge the gap between Operations Research (OR) analysts, decision-makers and stake-holders, making all of them part of the problem structuring and formulation process, particularly in societal issues like the environmental ones. The novelty of this approach is two-fold: (i) there are no examples in literature of a GMA research that address a linkage between environmental practices, strategic objectives, and the integration of stakeholders in the decision-making process at the level of a company; (ii) there is no GMA that had covered all the phases of a decision-making problem (problem definition, problem analysis and problem solving) in such a context.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 15