Site Selection Using Hybrid Analytical Hierarchy Processing: Evidence from Taiwanese Electronics Assembly Firms in China

摘要: ABSTRACT An upswing in labor costs and currency appreciation during the 1980s caused Asian countries economic entities such as Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan to search for new manufacturing sites obtain lower costs. China, with its huge, rapidly growing market, was one of main options these dynamos. How find an appropriate method evaluate optimum place a factory setup China is essential enterprise. Analytical hierarchy processing (AHP) solve complex multicriteria decision problems. However, make decisions based only on AHP results not sufficiently reliable, especially when are too close be precisely determined. To strengthen analysis, we propose “hybrid AHP” method. This computes error band (EB) final scores using 95% Confidence Interval estimate score calculates EB combined “bootstrap” mitigate expert pectoral bias. Based our methods, ru...