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Journal for Global Business Advancement

 

Special Issue on: "Applications of AHP and ANP in Emerging Markets’ Business Firms"

Guest Editors:
Rafikul Islam and Moussa Larbani, International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia

Making sound decisions is vital for the accomplishment of business firm’s visions, missions and goals. An organisation’s success depends substantially on its managers’ decision making expertise and abilities.

Often, organisations’ decisions involve conflicting objectives that could be resolved using quantitative and qualitative criteria such as the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and the analytic network process (ANP), both of which are widely popular decision making methods that have been successfully deployed by distinguished managers in different business settings across the world.

This special issue will present the applications of AHP/ANP across emerging market settings with a focus on any of the areas below.

Subject Coverage
Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

• Banking and Finance
• Business education
• Decision support systems
• Economic development
• Forecasting and prediction
• Foreign direct investment
• Group decision making in business
• Heathcare
• Hospitality
• Human resource management
• Performance measurement
• Total quality management
• Resource management
• Risk/uncertainty
• Strategic management
• Supply chain management

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and if appropriate written permissions have been obtained from any copyright holders of the original paper).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. Have a look at our Author guidelines and read our detailed information on Preparing articles.

You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an email to the following:

Rafikul Islam
International Islamic University Malaysia
Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences
P.O. Box # 10
50728 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Email: rislam@iium.edu.my

Moussa Larbani
International Islamic University Malaysia
Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences
P.O. Box # 10
50728 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Email: moussa@iium.edu.my

All enquiries regarding the special issue should be directed to either of the Guest Editors.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: 30 August, 2013