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Managers, financial analysts and academics all agree that the performance of a business system cannot be judged by a single measure and that it requires a variety of criteria. In the literature this has found expression in a bewildering array of techniques under the general umbrella of ‘multi-criteria decision making’, or MCDM for short, the purpose of which is to reconcile the demands imposed by diverse managerial objectives.
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Eilon, S. (1999). A Misleading Performance Measure. In: Management Strategies. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4585-9_7
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