NEUTROSOPHIC DEMATEL APPLIED TO STUDY OF THE FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE EXTRACONTRACTUAL COMMITMENT OF THE ECUADORIAN STATE

Abstract

The State’s extra-contractual responsibility is the guarantee of the rights, either for lack or deficient provision of public services or for actions or omissions in the exercise of public powers, the public servant responds for breaking the laws, as well as for excess or defect in the performance of its activity. In this paper, the factors that influence the extra-contractual responsibility of the Ecuadorian State are studied aided by a mathematical method. The chosen method is neutrosophic DEMATEL, which consists in the study of the cause effect in complex situations, as it is the case. The incorporation of Neutrosophy, which is the branch of philosophy that studies all related to neutralities, allows us taking into account the indeterminacy, which is typical when there exists lack of information or contradictory, inconsistent or paradoxical information. This method permits us the evaluation by using linguistic terms, which is a natural way for human beings’ assessment.