Affiliations: [a] Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Blvd. Lola Beltrán s/n esq. Circuito Vial, Culiacán 80200, México | [b] Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, 4070129 Concepción, Chile
| [c] Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Escuela de Administración de Empresas, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Av. Central del Norte, 39-115, 150001, Tunja, Colombia
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Corresponding author. Ernesto Leon-Castro, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, 4070129 Concepción, Chile. E-mail: eleon@ucsc.cl.
Abstract: The main aim of this paper is to propose a new aggregation operator to improve the evaluation of the transparency index. This new operator is called the prioritized induced ordered weighted average weighted average (PIOWAWA) operator. The main characteristics of the PIOWAWA operator are that it allows considering the degree of importance, reordering and weight factors given to the information in the same formulation by the decision maker. A mathematical application is performed using a Colombia transparency case. The findings highlight that according to the operator used, there are significant changes in the ranking. The main implications are given by using these aggregation operators for the generation of scenarios by considering the changes in the allocation of weights, the level of importance and the ordering of information simultaneously.
