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Interval-Valued Pythagorean Fuzzy Extension of DEMATEL for Prioritizing and Casualty Analysis of Environmental Criteria of Organizational Behaviour in Higher Education Sector
Volume 36, Issue 1 (2025), pp. 197–222
Pub. online: 6 December 2023      Type: Research Article      Open accessOpen Access
Received
1 July 2023
Accepted
1 November 2023
Published
6 December 2023

Abstract

In this study, effect of the environmental factors on the organizational behaviour in higher education sector is analysed and these factors are prioritized. For this aim, first, the environmental criteria affecting the organizational behaviour of higher education sector are selected from the literature. Then, as a solution methodology, (i) some experts are asked to determine pairwise comparison of the criteria, (ii) the linguistic terms are converted to interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy values, and (iii) an interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy DEMATEL approach is developed and applied. According to the results, most of the economic, political, and professional domain criteria are of the cause category.

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Biographies

Torkzadeh Jafar

J. Torkzadeh is a professor of Educational Administration and Planning at the Department of Educational Administration and Planning, Shiraz University, Iran. His research interests are mainly about behavior management and change in social systems, and environment management and sustainability. He is the author of several JCR indexed publications. In addition, he has been the executer of several regional and national research projects on social capital, organizational structure, and management for sustainability, in Iran.

Pamucar Dragan
dragan.pamucar@fon.bg.ac.rs

D. Pamucar is a professor at University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences. Dr. Pamucar received a PhD in applied mathematics with specialization in multi-criteria modeling and soft computing techniques, from University of Defence in Belgrade, Serbia in 2013 and an MSc degree from the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering in Belgrade, 2009. His research interests are in the field of computational intelligence, multi-criteria decision-making problems, neuro-fuzzy systems, fuzzy, rough and intuitionistic fuzzy set theory, and neutrosophic theory. Application areas include a wide range of logistics and engineering problems. Dr. Pamucar has five books and over 300 research papers published in SCI indexed International Journals including Experts Systems with Applications, Applied Soft Computing, Soft Computing, Computational Intelligence, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions of Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, Information Sciences and Research and so on, and many more. According to Scopus and Stanford University, he is among the World top 2% of scientists as of 2021 and 2022. According to WoS and Clarivate, he is among the top 1% of highly cited researchers.

Niroomand Sadegh
sadegh.niroomand@yahoo.com

S. Niroomand is an associate professor of industrial engineering in Firouzabad Higher Education Center which is a part of Shiraz University of Technology in Iran. He received his PhD degree in industrial engineering from Eastern Mediterranean University (in Turkey) in 2013. His research interests are operation research, fuzzy theory, exact and meta-heuristic solution approaches. He has published more than 70 papers in international scientific journals where most of these journals are indexed by JCR.


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