Evaluation of startup companies using multicriteria decision making based on hesitant fuzzy linguistic information envelopment analysis models

• Published in: International Journal of Intelligent Systems Vol. 36; no. 5; pp. 2292 - 2322
• Main Authors: Lin, Mingwei, Chen, Zheyu, Chen, Riqing, Fujita, Hamido
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Hindawi Limited 01.05.2021; John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Subjects: aggregation operator; Decision analysis; Decision making; evaluation of startup companies; fuzzy; Fuzzy sets; Intelligent systems; Linguistics; multicriteria decision making; Multiple criterion; Numerical analysis; Psychology; Pythagorean fuzzy sets; Robustness (mathematics); Startups

Evaluating startup companies is an important management process for technology business incubators and it is also a typical multicriteria decision‐making (MCDM) problem. There exist various methods that have proposed to solve MCDM problems, but these methods heavily depend on the exact criteria weig...