“…Most of economic phenomena can be characterized as complex and multivariate factors from the perspective of description or quantification (Balcerzak, 2009;Biczkowski, et al 2014;Pietrzak, et al 2014;Majewska, 2015, 2016;Zielenkiewicz, 2014Zielenkiewicz, , 2015Balcerzak and Pietrzak, 2016a, 2016c, 2016dPietrzak and Balcerzak, 2016a). As a result multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) or multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) methodology are currently commonly used in international comparative studies (Kuc, 2012a;Mościbrodzka, 2014;Jurkowska, 2014;Łyszczarz, 2016;Jurkowska, 2014).…”