Integrated environmental assessment of the location selection with fuzzy analytical network process

• Published in: Quality & quantity Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 351 - 380
• Main Authors: Wu, Cheng-Ru, Lin, Chin-Tsai, Chen, Huang-Chu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.05.2009; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Competition; Competitive advantage; Concepts; Construction industry; Decision Making; Economic geography; Economic sociology; Environmental impact studies; Health care; Health insurance; History, theory and methodology; Hospitals; Linear programming; Literature reviews; Methodology; Methodology of the Social Sciences; Networks; Original Paper; Planning. National and regional planning; Site selection; Social Sciences; Sociology; Sociology of economy and development; Standard of living; Taiwan; Taiwan; Selection of location; Fuzzy ANP; Diamond model; Decision Making; Construction; Methodology; Model; Localization
• ISSN: 0033-5177; 1573-7845
• DOI: 10.1007/s11135-007-9125-z

Owing to the complexity of a construction project, the fuzzy ANP is helpful to deal with interdependent relationships within a multi-criteria decision-making model. This paper uses the Porter’s diamond model that influences how competitive advantages, which is a matrix providing a conceptual model for the main framework, as a construct for selecting the location of a regional hospital in Taiwan to determine its effectiveness. The applicability of our proposed fuzzy ANP model is demonstrated with a case study that summarizes an intervention in which the model’s framework and basic concepts were applied.