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In business organizations a group decision process, which takes aggregation of DMs’ final choices into account, usually uses a voting procedure (VP). Therefore, a relevant part of the decision process consists of choosing the VP. Since all VPs have some drawbacks that may occasionally lead to undesirable outcomes it is important to characterize decision settings that make certain performance criteria particularly pertinent for choosing a VP. In this paper, it is assumed that this decision should be made by the DMs while the analyst will give some methodological and technical aid, and that a specific decision model will be used. Therefore, this paper presents a framework for aiding the choice of a VP in a business organization decision context, based on an MCDM model.
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This work had partial support from CNPq (Brazilian Research Sponsor) and from the University of Turku (financial support to the first author work there as a visiting professor in November of 2013).
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de Almeida, A.T., Nurmi, H. (2015). A Framework for Aiding the Choice of a Voting Procedure in a Business Decision Context. In: Kamiński, B., Kersten, G., Szapiro, T. (eds) Outlooks and Insights on Group Decision and Negotiation. GDN 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 218. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19515-5_17
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