An increasing number of Taiwanese universities are improving operational performance through innovation and total quality management (TQM). In addition, the National Quality Award (NQA), which is based on TQM, is now used to evaluate quality performance in various industries in Taiwan. Thus, several models for performance measurement have been proposed in recent years. However, these models do ...

Both theoretical and practical efforts in store image often neglect the characteristics that have interactions and mutual influence among attributes or criteria, even in the stages of different brand life cycles. This study aims at creating a hierarchical framework for the store image managements. The analytical network process and fuzzy sets theory have been applied to both share of mind in st...

The recent droughts in Iran made a decline in groundwater table and the migration of villagers to cities was hindered supplying drinking water for the current population. Therefore it should be considered as an important issue. In this regard, it is possible to achieve this goal by constructing underground dams that recently have been suggested to replace by medium and small overland dams. The ...

In the last decades, Tehran, as capital of Iran, has faced severe air pollution. Considering importance pollution, particularly PM2.5, study assesses environmental impacts (EIA) PM2.5 in Tehran metropolis using 4-year consecutive data (2014–2017). For this purpose, inverse distance weighting model, geographically weighted regression (GWR) and fuzzy analytic network process (FANP) for interpolat...

ABSTRACT: It is commonly recognized that knowledge is the only source of core competence in the knowledge based companies, but the productivity rate of Knowledge Workers is always Low. Based on Knowledge Workers’ characteristics, in this paper, we seek to identify factors influencing the Productivity of Knowledge Workers, and then strategies present for improvement of theirs Productivity. Final...

Both theoretical and practical efforts in band images often neglect the characteristics having interactions and mutual influence among attributes or criteria, even in the stages of different brand life cycles. This study aims to create a hierarchical framework for brand image management. The analytical network process and fuzzy sets theory have been applied to both mindshare in brand images and...

In the face of acute global competition, supplier management is rapidly emerging as a crucial issue to any companies striving for business success and sustainable development. To optimize competitive advantages, a company should incorporate ‘‘suppliers” as an essential part of its core competencies. Supplier evaluation, the first step in supplier management, is a complex multi-criteria decision...