MCDA Approaches for Efficient Strategic Decision Making
Authors: Tsotsolas, Nikos 
Alexopoulos, Spiros 
Issue Date: 1-May-2018
Book: Preference Disaggregation in Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis: Essays in honor of Yannis Siskos 
Abstract: 
Strategic decisions are often complex and multifaceted and involve many different stakeholders with different objectives and priorities. Very often decision-makers (DMs), when confronted with such problems, attempt to use intuitive or heuristic approaches to simplify the complexity until the problem seems more manageable. In this process, important information may be lost, opposing points of view may be discarded, and elements of uncertainty may be ignored. A crucial issue, when dealing with strategic decisions, is the radical uncertainty about the present (e.g. lack or poor quality of information) and also about the future. The latter one addresses the seeming paradox—how can we evaluate the rationality of our decisions today if the most important fact that we know about future conditions is that they are unknowable? In the literature it is mentioned that robustness analysis is a way of supporting strategic decision making when dealing with uncertainties and ignorance. In the present chapter we discuss how facilitated forms of MCDA could tackle different aspects associated with strategic decision making and provide effective support in dealing with robustness of strategic decisions in designing complex strategies with long-term consequences. We finally present three case studies where MCDA approaches were used to tackle strategic decision problems.
ISBN: 978-3-319-90599-0
ISSN: 2366-0031
2366-0023
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-90599-0_2
URI: https://uniwacris.uniwa.gr/handle/3000/1814
Type: Book Chapter
Department: Department of Business Administration 
School: School of Administrative, Economics and Social Sciences 
Affiliation: University of West Attica (UNIWA) 
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