Decision-Making in Sustainable Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 37
Special Issue Editors
Interests: automation; optimization; simulation; decision making; multiobjective optimization; post-Pareto analysis and response surface methodology
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Interests: operations and quality management; lean six sigma; process and product optimization
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainable business decision-making is crucial for long-term success. It entails a proactive approach where every decision, from product development to resource management, carefully weighs its environmental, social, and economic implications.
From strategic decisions such as business location to technology selection, product quality, project portfolio selection, the value of healthcare interventions and public policies, and a myriad of management decisions in (non)industrial settings require a compromise between multiple conflicting qualitative and/or quantitative criteria. To ensure long-term sustainability, these decisions must be supported by multiple criteria decision analysis and/or multiple objective decision-making methodologies, methods, procedures, and techniques that provide a scientifically robust decision-making framework while balancing economic, environmental, and social factors.
In this Special Issue, entitled “Decision-Making in Sustainable Management”, theoretical papers and practical case studies involving multiple criteria and objectives from any research field are welcome.
Dr. João Miguel Lourenço
Guest Editor
Dr. Nuno Costa
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- Pareto
- optimal
- MADM
- MCDM
- sustainable
- balanced solutions
- resources optimization
- uncertainty
- robustness
- resilience
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