We know that Innovation plays a crucial role in sustainable development for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) cluster. This paper applies a multi-criteria methodology to SMEs cluster innovation capability appraisal, known as the analytic hierarchy process(AHP). This methodology is especially useful when there is partial information and/or qualitative variables are used. Firstly, this paper de...

the comprehensive assessment model considers the financial and non-financial aspects as balanced scorecard. also, for more comprehensive results of the investigation, four aspects of the balanced scorecard were used and then by using fuzzy delphi technique and experts' opinions, the standard aspects of each were achieved in two stages. to determine the importance of each aspect of bsc, the proce...

Purpose – To provide an interesting approach for determining interval measures, through the analytic hierarchy process, for integration with social network analysis for knowledge mapping in organizations. Design/methodology/approach – In order to develop improved organizational and business processes through knowledge management, a knowledge audit should be conducted to better understand the kn...

Introduction: Hospitals performance indicators will help monitoring, evaluation and decision making and therefore must be selected and ranked accurately. The aim of the present study is to identify and to select key hospitals performance indicators. Materials and Methods: This is a quantitative-qualitative study in which literature review and expert panel has been done to identify all performan...

The Analytic Hierarchy Process as an aid to decision makers has gained in popularity over the years. Recently the procedure has been generalised into the Interval Analytic Hierarchy Process. Rather than select a precise ratio for the comparisons between the alternatives offered to the decision maker an interval is proposed. One popular strategy in examining this problem is to adopt a simulation...

the objective of this article is to develop an empirically based framework for formulating and selecting a vendor in supply chain. this study applies the fuzzy set theory to evaluate the vendor selection decision. applying analytic hierarchy process (ahp) in obtaining criteria weights and applied technique for order performance by similarity to idea solution (topsis) for obtaining final ranking...

‎in this paper, we present a two-stage model for ranking of decision making units (dmus) using interval analytic hierarchy process (ahp). since the efficiency score of unity is assigned to the efficient units, we evaluate the efficiency of each dmu by basic dea models and calculate the weights of the criteria using proposed model. in the first stage, the proposed model evaluates decision making...

the objective of this article is to develop an empirically based framework for formulating and selecting a vendor in supply chain. this study applies the fuzzy set theory to evaluate the vendor selection decision. applying analytic hierarchy process (ahp) in obtaining criteria weights and applied technique for order performance by similarity to idea solution (topsis) for obtaining final ranking...