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Abstract
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Nowadays, Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing (ECM) programs have been considered by
many organizations from a strategic and competitive advantage point of view. Selection of ECM
programs from the several proposed alternatives is a very important and difficult task. Decision makers
are not limited to one Multi-attribute Decision Making method in critical conditions and several
methods have been proposed for solving this problem. This study presents Polygons Area Method as a
Multi-attribute Decision Making method for solving the ECM selection problem. The results of this
method have been compared with other typical multiple attribute decision-making methods by giving
an example. To find similarity in ranking given by different methods, Spearman’s rank correlation
coefficients are obtained for different pairs of these methods. It was observed that the introduced
method is in good agreement with other well-known multi-attribute decision making methods in the
Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing program selection problem
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