This report introduces a strategic decision-support tool for location planning in tradeshows and conventions. This decision support tool is based on a multi-year research project that examined tradeshow participants preferences, including a comparison of attributes sought by attendees and by exhibitors. The study, supported by the Cornell Center for Hospitality Research and ASAE Foundation, inc...

This paper proposes a new decision making structure to determine the appropriate product delivery strategy for different products in a manufacturing system among make-to-stock, make-toorder, and hybrid strategy. Given product delivery strategies for all products in the manufacturing system, the position of the Order Penetrating Point (OPP) can be located regarding the delivery strategies among ...

Plant location selection is a multi-criteria decision problem and has a strategic importance for many companies. The aim of this study is to propose a fuzzy approach for Plant location selection. This paper is based on a fuzzy VIKOR (Serbian: Vlsekriterijumsko Kompromisno Rangiranje) method. In this method, the ratings of various alternatives versus various subjective criteria and the weights o...

To increase the efficiency of delivery operations in small package shipping (SPS), numerous optimization models for route and location planning decisions have been proposed. This "operations research view" of defining independent problems has two major shortcomings: First, most models from literature neglect crucial real-world characteristics, thus making them useless for small package shippers...

Wholesale affiliates account for a significant share of the foreign earnings of multinational firms. Yet little is known about them since empirical work on multinationals typically focuses on manufacturing affiliates. Instead, it has been presupposed that wholesale affiliates are a form of exporting by the parent company, and not a form of foreign direct investment. This paper presents evidence...

The appropriateness of a location to be selected as a seminar location is affected by many supporting factors, so that the location is suitable as a single choice. Hence, there should be made a process to decide a location whether it is proper or not to match some assessment criteria conceived before. There are 8 assessment criteria with 22 sub-criteria each. The result of the assessment forms ...