A fuzzy MCDM approach for project selection criteria prioritization in a big-four company: Evidences from Turkey consultancy sector

Project selection still remains as a debatable topic in Turkey as competitiveness between companies increases. There are too many factors to be taken into consideration since the process is very long and may be evaluated under uncertainty. Especially, main factors, such as financial, technical, social and risk factors, are not easily decided to take a project and consultancy companies need to be certain about a project’s qualifications in order to minimize uncontrollable factor and maximize controllable factors. However, in many projects, the controllable factors cannot be easily decided, which mean the process does not clearly have a certainty. This paper aims to put forward an MCDM method to evaluate project selection qualifications in a Big-Four company located in Turkey, which leads the projects in Turkey and prioritize the project selection criteria under fuzziness in order to give a perspective about a project’s main criteria and sub criteria and to focus on which qualifications should be focused.