Maysam Shafiee Roodposhti; Seyyed Habib Mirghafooi
Volume 9, Issue 22 , September 2011, , Pages 49-74
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In new era systems managers should focus on managing the flow of production through all the steps that add value to the final product. Lean production as an efficient approach has presented in literature of production management for increasing the level of products' quality and decreasing cost of production. ...
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In new era systems managers should focus on managing the flow of production through all the steps that add value to the final product. Lean production as an efficient approach has presented in literature of production management for increasing the level of products' quality and decreasing cost of production. Although this approach is introduced and studied in many of works but there are some challenges in applying it. It means that there is not a comprehensive model for assessing and analyzing the lean production in manufacturing firms. This paper tries to present a model able to accuracy analyze and measure the leanness degree of firms. In this study, first the literature of lean production and, specifically, existing models that identify the variables and component elements of lean production firms was studied. In the next step a hierarchical model for measuring the leanness degree was developed and its dimensions and criteria's were defined. At final step for assessment phase formulas and relations were developed and applied in Yazd Tile and Ceramics industries.
Fariborz Rahimnia; Shamsodin Nazemi; Ebrahim Mashreghi
Volume 9, Issue 23 , December 2011, , Pages 49-70
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This paper aims to review the literature in order to propose a conceptual model for strategic planning process and to examine the applicability of this model. This research is done in four industrial estates in Khorasan - Razavi province. The statistical population includes top managers of the companies ...
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This paper aims to review the literature in order to propose a conceptual model for strategic planning process and to examine the applicability of this model. This research is done in four industrial estates in Khorasan - Razavi province. The statistical population includes top managers of the companies who were actively involved in strategic planning of their company. Structural Equation Model (SEM), Lisrel and SPSS software are used to analyze the gathered data. The results indicate that two significant paths have been ignored in the initial proposed model. Thus, adding these two paths leads to an applicable model for strategic planning process in small-sized companies. The results also show that 70 percent of the considered companies benefit from integrated plans. An important finding is that there is a significant linear relationship between the intensity of strategic planning and environmental change
Mohammad Jafar Tarokh; Rahmat Mirzai; Naghmeh Alvandi
Volume 9, Issue 25 , July 2012, , Pages 51-84
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Knowledge has widely been acknowledged as one of the mostimportant factors for corporate competitiveness, and we havewitnessed an explosion of IT solutions claiming to provide support forknowledge management. Due to the rapid development of knowledgeand information technology (IT), business environments ...
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Knowledge has widely been acknowledged as one of the mostimportant factors for corporate competitiveness, and we havewitnessed an explosion of IT solutions claiming to provide support forknowledge management. Due to the rapid development of knowledgeand information technology (IT), business environments have becomemuch more complicated. In order to cope with ensuing complications,enterprises ought to incessantly innovate; otherwise, it will be verydifficult for them to survive in the marketplace. Hence, IT can help afirm aiming to gain a competitive advantage. In addition, many studieshave argued that business value comes mainly from intangible assets,such as knowledge. Thus, knowledge workers will be able to replaceclerical workers as the new mainstream of manpower resources, afield in which the development of IT is the major force for change inknowledge management system (KMS). Therefore, based on thedefinition of the six gaps in KMS, this study explores the role andeffect of IT in the implementation of KMS in the IK company. EachGap is discussed and the results of an empirical assessment employedto evaluate them are then reported in order to identify each gap'ssituation in a company and which one has to be improved first.moreover, relationships between KMS and IT are analyzed anddemonstrated by means of the literature reviews, expert interviews andquestionnaire analyses. Furthermore, this study discusses how toenhance the effectiveness and efficiency of implementing KMSthrough appropriate IT tools.
Ali Mohammadnia
Volume 6, Issue 15 , March 2007, , Pages 51-85
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Tending to customer rightly overtax, Organizations gain new customers and keep their satisfaction, therefore based on created competition, organization and companies should seeking suitable ways to customer’s absorption and maintenance. Thus it is vital for business success and it not succeed unless ...
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Tending to customer rightly overtax, Organizations gain new customers and keep their satisfaction, therefore based on created competition, organization and companies should seeking suitable ways to customer’s absorption and maintenance. Thus it is vital for business success and it not succeed unless customer satisfaction measurement and continues profitability. Furthermore, the satisfaction measurement available method are up crisp range, whereas loyalty measurement indexes are fuzzy, unclear and verbal which be able to say totally, measurement in fuzzy logic is more efficient.
The paper main goal is customers satisfaction measurement in Roozane Dairying Company which can use from research results all of manufacturer and service companies, further, applied goals of this research are: Customers Satisfaction, Fuzzy measuring effective factors on creating Roozane dairying Customers Satisfaction, prioritize effective factors on Roozane dairying customer satisfaction, comparing and comprehensive survey of results of Fuzzy logic and classic logic techniques, documenting practical solution for practicing effective factors on keeping customers and creating customers satisfaction. There are |Four hypothesizes in the research to goal achievement so after suing statistical techniques and analyzing data in both Fuzzy and classic methods by SPSS software, resulting to: to pass all of hypothesizes, finally, suggested some offers for future researches.
Nasser Sanoubar; Saeid Bazmohammadi
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Analyzing corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a multi-criteria problem. This paper firstly introduces gray relation and entropy weighting methods in order to find a solution to analyze and rank corporations from this point of view. The proposed technique that conducted through combining these two ...
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Analyzing corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a multi-criteria problem. This paper firstly introduces gray relation and entropy weighting methods in order to find a solution to analyze and rank corporations from this point of view. The proposed technique that conducted through combining these two methods, will become more reliable decision making criterion. Furthermore, since in literature there are different dimensions suggested for CSR, entropy method is used to determine the relative importance of each dimension. Awareness-raising questionnaire prepared by the social responsibility unit of European Commission was used to measure corporate responsibility. By applying these methods, 10 active pharmaceutical material and products manufacturing corporations were investigated and in terms of paying attention to social responsibilities, Pars Daro corporation placed first. This technique not only helps corporations to diagnose their weaknesses and strengths, but also helps them to know their position against competitors and make better decisions to promote corporate rank in social responsibility.
Abas Fadaei; Masood Rabieh; Mostafa Zandieh
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Considering that the active companies in the field of oil, gas,petrochemical and other energies are project-based and also theincrease of gas applicants who have taken policy of replacing the gasinstead of other fossil fuels, have imposed certain condition onorganizations and project managers in the ...
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Considering that the active companies in the field of oil, gas,petrochemical and other energies are project-based and also theincrease of gas applicants who have taken policy of replacing the gasinstead of other fossil fuels, have imposed certain condition onorganizations and project managers in the Gas Company.One of themost important problem in the issue of project management is projectportfolio selection which is defined one of the most importantactivities in many organization such as gas organization. In this studyat first the effective indicators on projects are extracted by using theliterature and interviews with the experts of gas industry then themathematical robust multi objective model is provided by consideringthe uncertainty and unreliability in some parameters of model. Thismodel is solved by using Non-dominate Sorting Genetic Algorithmfor 20 degree of risk-taking decision Gama ( , Ct Bt ).At the end forhelping in decision making the TOPSIS technique is used forproviding a specific answer in Pareto Front .
Mir Ali Seyyed Naghavi
Volume 8, Issue 19 , December 2010, , Pages 53-71
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“analyzability” and “variability” and this differentiation affecting on human resource practices. This paper uses “Charles pro’s four type of technologies: Repetitive, Engineering, non-repctitive and artifacts in order to explanting HRM practices. Therefore four major ...
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“analyzability” and “variability” and this differentiation affecting on human resource practices. This paper uses “Charles pro’s four type of technologies: Repetitive, Engineering, non-repctitive and artifacts in order to explanting HRM practices. Therefore four major industries and 50 tasks based on its “analyzability”, and “variability selected. 'Then, two type of questionnaires were designed and distributed between 180 managers, results showed that “variability of tasks” affected reward and control modes and “analyzability of tasks” affecting on human resource planning horizon and rewards modes.
Bahman Naderi
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In this paper hybrid flowshop scheduling problem where some jobs, not all, have to follow no-wait restriction (that is, the operations of that job must be processed with no stop) is examined. In the literature, all papers assume that all jobs of the shops have to follow no-wait restrictions. First, this ...
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In this paper hybrid flowshop scheduling problem where some jobs, not all, have to follow no-wait restriction (that is, the operations of that job must be processed with no stop) is examined. In the literature, all papers assume that all jobs of the shops have to follow no-wait restrictions. First, this paper mathematically formulates the problem with two different mixed integer linear models under proposed considerations. The models are evaluated using two performance measures of size complexity and computational complexity. The small instances of the problem are solved using commercial software of mathematical programming. To solve larger instances of problem, two solution algorithms have been developed. These two algorithms are based on imperialist competitive algorithm and simulated annealing. A comprehensive numerical experiment including small and large instances is conducted to evaluate the models and algorithms. The results show that the imperialist competitive algorithm outperforms simulated annealing
Gholamreza Jamali; Elham Karimi Asl
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Supply Chain Management (SCM) is considered as a key factor to achieve goals such as creating competitive advantage, product quality improvement and increasing profitability in the cement industry. The main purpose of this research is to determine competitive positioning for LARG supply chain in the ...
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Supply Chain Management (SCM) is considered as a key factor to achieve goals such as creating competitive advantage, product quality improvement and increasing profitability in the cement industry. The main purpose of this research is to determine competitive positioning for LARG supply chain in the iranian cement industry and to do Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) for its related strategic requirements (Strenghts, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats). A survey-descriptive research method was applied and an available sample includes 11 Iranian cement companies were selected. First, with reviewing related literature and using the Delphi Method (DM), the strategic requirements of LARG supply chain in the cement industry identified. In the next step, the importance of each strategic requirement determined using SWARA technique. Then the results of applying Internal/External Factors Evaluation (IFE/EFE) matrix showed that to achieve the suitable position in the LARG supply chain for the Iranian cement industry an aggressive strategy should be taken. In the final step, applying Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) matrix showed all requirements for aggressive strategy except exporting opportunities and cooperation culture in the supply chain that were in quadrant one, evaluated in quadrant II (keep up the good work). Finally, some suggestions presented toward improving LARG supply chain performance in the Iranian cement industry.
Alireza Pooya; Golamreza Soltani-fesaghandis
Volume 13, Issue 37 , July 2015, , Pages 55-90
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Newcomer companies, creating dynamism in the economy, as through the provision of goods, services and new technologies, increasing competition in the market and expanding the industry, making it more dynamic. But the fact that what was going on after their entrance are also important. Because their growth ...
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Newcomer companies, creating dynamism in the economy, as through the provision of goods, services and new technologies, increasing competition in the market and expanding the industry, making it more dynamic. But the fact that what was going on after their entrance are also important. Because their growth and longevity in achieving long- term goals and policies in regarding employment and economic growth are of particular importance. This study was conducted to investigate the factors that influence the survival of newcomer companies. Company size and growth rate of the industry are features that are assumed to affect the survival of the company. So the effects of these variables on the survival of newcomer companies of Electronic and Electric Industries in Mazandaran province during1981-2011 were studied.
Semi-parametric Cox regression model was used to test the hypotheses. In order to further analyze the data, nonparametric model life table and product limit estimator was used. Data from the Mazandaran province database of Industry, Mine and Trade were collected and for data processing, winTDA software is used. As a result of this study, a positive relationship between firm size and survival rates were approved. But there was no significant relationship between industry growth rates and survival
Majid Esmaelian; Kamran Feizi; Amir Afsar
Volume 10, Issue 26 , January 2012, , Pages 55-73
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In this paper, a nonlinear multi objective mathematical model forcrashing the PERT network is presented. The main purpose of thismodel is minimizing the pessimistic time of critical activities byallocating more budget. In fact, this model indicates how the budget isallocated among critical activities. ...
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In this paper, a nonlinear multi objective mathematical model forcrashing the PERT network is presented. The main purpose of thismodel is minimizing the pessimistic time of critical activities byallocating more budget. In fact, this model indicates how the budget isallocated among critical activities. The results show that decreasingthe pessimistic of critical activities lead to decreasing the time andvariance of project completion. This model increases the probabilityof project completion on time scheduling. A genetic algorithm is useto solve the nonlinear model
Laya Olfat; Hassan Hashemi
Volume 1, Issue 2 , October 2003, , Pages 55-82
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The prime objectives of Project Management are to minimize time and cost and to meet required performance. Value Engineering is an organized effort to attain optimum value in a system by providing the necessary functions to improve performance at the lowest cost. Value Engineering can contribute to the ...
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The prime objectives of Project Management are to minimize time and cost and to meet required performance. Value Engineering is an organized effort to attain optimum value in a system by providing the necessary functions to improve performance at the lowest cost. Value Engineering can contribute to the field of project management to achieve its objectives.
This paper explains a model of service project management with the aid of value Engineering.
Jahanyar Bamdad Sufl; Saeed Shahbaz Moradi; Majid Salimi
Volume 3, Issue 8 , March 2005, , Pages 55-70
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Building a research questionnaire and using assessment tools play a crucial role in social, management and behavioral sciences. Scales and questionnaires are deemed wrongly as the same tools, but in spite of the similarities that are basically ...
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Building a research questionnaire and using assessment tools play a crucial role in social, management and behavioral sciences. Scales and questionnaires are deemed wrongly as the same tools, but in spite of the similarities that are basically and technichally different. Although, making a research scale or questionnaire may seem quite an easy job for son researchers, gathered results by these tools are normally miles away fro the reality. By this token, it necessitates some technical skills and scientif background. This article is to study the likert Scale, introduced by R. Likert in 193 as the most commonly used assessment tools and the most recent published researches' findings are explored to build and statically analy: the produced results developed by likert Scale.
Akbar Alam Tabriz; Mohammad Bagherzadeh Azar
Volume 5, Issue 14 , December 2006, , Pages 55-73
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At the beginning of the last century, division of labor principle was introduced as a factor for creativity drive, and economical saving, and the requirements of such principles led to hierarchical, task and authority-oriented organizing of different enterprises and organizational levels. This results ...
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At the beginning of the last century, division of labor principle was introduced as a factor for creativity drive, and economical saving, and the requirements of such principles led to hierarchical, task and authority-oriented organizing of different enterprises and organizational levels. This results a shift in goals and tasks of organizations. By Increasing demand and application of automation in order to recompense production task- orientation and customer’s demand as the main goal of organization was marginalized. Although this approach was effective in the period of inadequacy of supply for demand, at the time of abundance of supply for demand and organizations focus on customer’s demand it lost its efficiency so needs another approach, new condition requires this approach to be holistic and result oriented, and whenever and even during the performance of any task, the final product and customer’s pure demand must be pivot of activities. In other words, personnel at every stage should think about serving customers and realize their demands. The new approach was totally different from the task-oriented one and had a process-oriented nature. This transmission from task-orientation to process orientation paradigm is the subject of a research which was conducted in an industrial- productive enterprise via action research approach contracting. This research has developed the process- oriented approach to management system based on process in a way that inheres in itself continuous improvement, whose result would be prescriptive and descriptive. Process orientation, contrary to task orientation that focuses on the way of performing an action, emphasizes the cause of this approach in order to organize all of the organizational elements and resources for realizing the customer’s demands.
Payam Chiniforoshan; Behrouz Pourghannad; Rouzbeh Azizmohammadi; Seyed Hossein Razavi
Volume 6, Issue 16 , June 2007, , Pages 55-74
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Now days one of the main strategies and policies of firms is purchasing parts from external suppliers. For decision making about selecting suppliers, are considered the different criteria. But because of changes of management levels and external suppliers strategies, could not determine input data precisely. ...
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Now days one of the main strategies and policies of firms is purchasing parts from external suppliers. For decision making about selecting suppliers, are considered the different criteria. But because of changes of management levels and external suppliers strategies, could not determine input data precisely. Hence, considering supplier selection problem with regard to the uncertain criteria is necessary. In this paper, a combinatorial model from the well-known method of Compromise Programming (CP) and Interval Programming will be proposed that is called Interval Compromise Programming (ICP). The model can be used for optimizing multi-objective interval problems. For illustrating the proposed model, will be presented a supplier selection problem by considering the objectives of minimizing rejects and purchase cost and maximizing quality of purchased products, where are considered the input parameters as interval numbers. The obtained results compared to the ideal value of each objective can present a representation from situation of optimistic and pessimistic of the problem under uncertainty.
Mohammad Hossein Tahmasebi; Kaveh Khalili Damghani; Vahidreza Ghezavati
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One of the most important problems facing distribution companies is to find the best locations for depots and also proper routes for transportation vehicles in order to optimize their supply network. This study aims to examine the problem of location-routing for post offices in Tehran. To achieve this, ...
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One of the most important problems facing distribution companies is to find the best locations for depots and also proper routes for transportation vehicles in order to optimize their supply network. This study aims to examine the problem of location-routing for post offices in Tehran. To achieve this, a bi-objective location-routing problem is proposed. In order to make the problem more realistic, time constraints are taken into account. A suitable solution procedure on the basis of customized goal programming is developed to solve the proposed model. The proposed model and solution procedure are applied in post offices in Tehran, Iran. The results of proposed model show considerable savings in time and cost of planning in comparison with the current planning in the case. The proposed model can be applied in other cases such as location of garbage bins in city and routing of collecting vehicles. Other significant parameters in urban planning can be considered as uncertainty in this model in the future research. This model can be customized for whole of Iran and therefore, meta-heuristic methods can be used to solve the instances in large scale
Abdolreza Sedighpour; Mostafa Zandieh; Akbar Alem Tabriz; behroz dori
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Within two recent decades, the complexity of business environment, dynamics, uncertainty and higher environmental fluctuations, concepts such as globalization and increasing competition made many changes in the equations ruling on the industries supply chain. In such conditions, the businesses must make ...
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Within two recent decades, the complexity of business environment, dynamics, uncertainty and higher environmental fluctuations, concepts such as globalization and increasing competition made many changes in the equations ruling on the industries supply chain. In such conditions, the businesses must make themselves ready for encountering the continuous flow of challenges such as economic crises, sanctions, exchange rate and prices fluctuations, limitations of manufacturing system or natural disasters. “Resiliency” is one of strategies for dealing with such challenges. The present study aims to review the systematic studies based on the strategic position of pharmaceutical industry as a part of society’s health system and present here the resilient supply chain model. For this purpose, in addition to contemplating in the literature review, interview to the experts and using Delphi method, the resilient elements and indices of supply chain were identified and extracted, and a questionnaire was designed and provided to the population of pharmaceutical industry. The results were analyzed using structural Equations modeling technique and Lisrel software, and the proposed model of research was accepted upon explaining the associations between factors. This model studied the relationship between elements such as drivers, vulnerabilities, capabilities and empowerments of supply chain and their effect on each other. Summary of study indicates that the managers of pharmaceutical industries through making or using the capabilities and strengthening the empowerments can reduce the factors that make the companies susceptible for the disruption, and achieve the required resiliency to deal with them.
Hani Ghasemi Sahebi; Mahmoud Zanjirchi
Volume 11, Issue 30 , October 2014, , Pages 56-76
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To achieve a competitive edge in the rapidly changing business environment,companies must align with suppliers and customers to streamlineoperations, as well as working together to achieve a level of agility beyondindividual companies. Consequently, agile supply chains are the dominantcompetitive vehicles. ...
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To achieve a competitive edge in the rapidly changing business environment,companies must align with suppliers and customers to streamlineoperations, as well as working together to achieve a level of agility beyondindividual companies. Consequently, agile supply chains are the dominantcompetitive vehicles. Due to the ambiguity of agility assessment, mostmeasures are described subjectively using linguistic terms. In this research,it is identified different dimensions of the agility. It is studied howthe PISHRANEH Company accesses the agility in its supply chain as acase study. The innovation of this paper is the simultaneous use of Fuzzyrule-based and the Fuzzy agility index approaches which it is applied forthe first time in such articles. Finally, it is represented some suggestions forthe progress of agility level of the supply chain of the company and somefor the future.
aliasghar tanha
Mohammad saeed Company; Parham Azimi
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In this study, the use of simulation technique in bi-objective optimization of assembly line balancing problem has been studied. The aim of this paper is to determine optimal allocation of human resource and equipment to parallel workstations in order to minimize the cost of adding equipment and manpower ...
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In this study, the use of simulation technique in bi-objective optimization of assembly line balancing problem has been studied. The aim of this paper is to determine optimal allocation of human resource and equipment to parallel workstations in order to minimize the cost of adding equipment and manpower among the stations and maximize the production output. In other words, with optimal use of resources, production output is maximized and therefore productivity become maximum. To this end, with optimization via simulation, the production line process is simulated in the form of a simulation model in the ED software. After validating the simulation model using design of experiment, various scenarios designed and run in the simulation model. Possible results for human resource and equipment variables, obtained by genetic algorithm are shown in a Pareto chart and have compared with the production line current situation
Vali MOhamad Darini; Ali Akbar Aghajani Afroozi; Mohamad Taban; Morteza Mohamadi saleh
Volume 13, Issue 36 , April 2015, , Pages 61-94
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Abstract: In response to bankruptcy of several small and medium enterprises(SMEs) in Mazandaran province, this research is conducted to identify the internal key factors that affect the performance of this enterprises. Based on our rigorous literature review in the field of SMEs, a conceptual model with ...
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Abstract: In response to bankruptcy of several small and medium enterprises(SMEs) in Mazandaran province, this research is conducted to identify the internal key factors that affect the performance of this enterprises. Based on our rigorous literature review in the field of SMEs, a conceptual model with eleven dimensions was developed. According to the model, a questionnaire with 108 questions was designed and distributed between the managing directors of 209 SMEs of Mazandaran province. The gathered data were encoded and afterwards analyzed using SPSS, Excel, and Lisrel software. The results of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test confirmed that the selection of the members were randomly performed.., The reliability of research tools was approved by Cronbach Alpha experiment with a stability coefficient of 0.94. Friedman test has been performed to determine the priorityof all of the questions. T- test did show use measure all of the earned 11 factors subject literature in the small and medium enterprise Mazandaran county. And finally influencing of the Dimension of the research were confirm by the structural equation modeling with Root Mean Square Error of Approximation(RMSEA). The results show that the organizational strategy with 0.10 has the must has the highest impact on the performance of the SMEs.
Hamidreza Shahabifard; Behrouz Afshar-nadjafi
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In this paper, a mathematical model is proposed for project portfolioselection and resource availability cost problem to scheduling activities inorder to maximize net present value of the selected projects preservingprecedence and resource constraints. Since the developed model belongs toNP-hard problems ...
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In this paper, a mathematical model is proposed for project portfolioselection and resource availability cost problem to scheduling activities inorder to maximize net present value of the selected projects preservingprecedence and resource constraints. Since the developed model belongs toNP-hard problems list, so a genetic based meta-heuristic algorithm isproposed to tackle the developed model. In the proposed algorithm besidecommon operators of genetic algorithms such as crossover & mutation, someintelligent operators are utilized for local search in computed resources andshifting the activities with negative cash flows. The key parameters of thealgorithm are calibrated using Taguchi method to accelerate convergence ofthe proposed algorithm. Then, the algorithm is used to solve 90 testproblems consisting 30 small-scale, 30 middle-scale and 30 large scaleproblems to examine the algorithm’s performance. It is observed that, insmall problems, the obtained solutions from the proposed genetic algorithmhave been comparably better than the local optimum solutions stemmedfrom Lingo software. On the other hand, for the middle and large sizeproblems which there is no local optimum available within the limited CPUtime, robustness of the proposed algorithm is appropriate
Amine Keramaty; Majid Esmaelian; Masoud Rabieh
Volume 13, Issue 39 , January 2016, , Pages 63-90
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This paper presents a mathematical model for the multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problem with maximizing the net present value of project. The proposed model is inspired by MRCPSP-GPR. Firstly, we presented an exact model solving MRCPSP_GPR then we expanded the model to estimate other ...
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This paper presents a mathematical model for the multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problem with maximizing the net present value of project. The proposed model is inspired by MRCPSP-GPR. Firstly, we presented an exact model solving MRCPSP_GPR then we expanded the model to estimate other cost-related options, penalty-related expenditure is a case in point. As a result of estimating different factors which impact on project scheduling such as reward and penalty of finishing the project, managers can efficiently make a better decision. For better adaptation with real conditions, we consider two payment methods in two objective functions. The adjusted schedule by proposed model and solving time was logical. Moreover, to verify the proposed model, a numerical example is solved in small size and the related computational results are illustrated in terms of schedules. In addition, computational results with a set of 36 test problems in various sizes are reported and the results analyzed.
Abolfazl Kazzazi; Hossein Aboudi; Mehdi Haddadzadeh
Volume 3, Issue 11 , December 2005, , Pages 63-83
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The policy of changing direct subsidiary to indirect subsidiary was one of the main government policies and the government according to forth development program should organize the subsidiary system in cultural parts with the approach of changing ...
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The policy of changing direct subsidiary to indirect subsidiary was one of the main government policies and the government according to forth development program should organize the subsidiary system in cultural parts with the approach of changing subsidiary payments for production to consumption. During recent years the subsidiary of paper distribution for newspapers (as the most important output of cultural and political production) always have been indirectly and via subsidiary for press and this has caused numerous problems for paper industry. This survey is the analysis of economic and commercial policies of government in industry of paper for newspapers. Effective elements in the domestic industry of papers for newspapers have been sorted by using questionnaire and interview and by PESTI model. In this article supportive policies of government is recognized as the main effect on paper industry and discussed completely and finally, some proper solutions are offered.
modeling and simulation
Mohammad Reza Atefi; Reza Radfar; Ezzatollah Asgharizadeh
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Purpose – Organization managers tend to use an optimal and precise method to evaluate the performance of their organization by understanding the organization dynamics. The immediate research goal was to propose a dynamic model for the performance evaluation of a LARG supply chain with the balanced ...
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Purpose – Organization managers tend to use an optimal and precise method to evaluate the performance of their organization by understanding the organization dynamics. The immediate research goal was to propose a dynamic model for the performance evaluation of a LARG supply chain with the balanced scorecard (BSC) approach. Design/methodology/approach – In this study, dynamic simulations are carried out for the performance evaluation of a supply chain. At first, a strategy map was designed, and measures are identified for each strategic objective considering the LARG supply chain measures. Afterward, a quantitative dynamic model was designed to identify the mathematical relationships among them. Findings – The proposed model is implemented in a company operating in the automotive industry. Based on the company’s strategic objectives, scenarios were designed and analyzed to evaluate the performance of the LARG supply chain with the balanced scorecard approach. Research limitations/implications – The BSC- based LARG supply chain evaluation has been studied for the auto part manufacturer sector. The different industry may lead to different results as the model designed important in each sector may differ as well as how each model is designed.Originality/value – The dynamic model enables managers to identify the determinants of the supply chain performance and set the scene for the necessary decisions by analyzing the possible scenarios in advance.
