today, the benefits of organizations cannot be achieved by one organization alone, because the organizations are trying to make their business focus on core competence, and they outsourcing other activities to other organizations. iranian organizations have long spoken of it outsourcing is a form of serious issues; so managers need to increase their knowledge and techniques in the field of it o...

This paper revisits the recent works of Suwignjo, Bititci and Carrie (SBC) (Int. J. Prod. Econom. 64 (2000) 231) and Bititci, Suwignjo and Carrie (BSC) (Int. J. Prod. Econom. 69 (2001) 15). We show how a generalizable analytical hierarchy technique based on Saaty’s systems-with-feedback approach, also known as the analytical network process (ANP), can be applied, as an alternative methodology, ...

the main purpose of this paper is to present a fuzzy multi-criteria decision making (fmadm) model for appropriate location selection of a health center. therefore, we identify sixteen criteria and sub-criteria for selecting a health center location. these criteria and sub-criteria have been obtained from literature reviews and practical interviews. this paper proposes a method which combines th...

ABSTRACT Global warming is the today’s important problem for all over the world. Due to the global warming, countries come face to face with lots of problems such as shortage of clean and usable water, erosion, usage of natural resources, and climatic problems. That’s why; in this paper, we proposed a model for selection of the utilization strategies for water resources in Turkey by using analy...

Proposed in this study is a hybrid model for supporting the performance of a department within Amir Kabir University in Iran. The proposal is a two-stage model designed to fully rank the organizational departments where each faculty has multiple inputs and outputs. First, the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) separately formulates each pair of units. In the second stage, the pair-wise evaluation ...

work system safety is a function of many factors, besides its dynamic and complex structure. there may be relations and dependencies among the safety factors. therefore, work system safety should be analyzed in a holistic manner. in this study, the faulty behavior risk (fbr) which is significant in work system safety is tried to be determined through analytical network process (anp) which is an...

Assessing the performance of Research and development (R&D) organizations to achieve higher productivity, growth, is always a critical necessity. Therefore, developing more accurate model evaluate required. For this purpose, study aimed at decision-making for evaluating R&D performance. The comes up with determining most proper evaluative criteria assessing organizations. Then, it integ...

Technological innovation is a key ingredient in building high performance organizations and the proper evaluation of technological innovation capability (TIC) is very important for decision makers. The objective of this paper is to introduce an analytical network process (ANP) model for technological innovation capability evaluation. This paper reports an application of proposed methodology as ...