Ranking the Methods of Technology Cross-Border Acquisition, Combining TOPSIS and ANP Approaches for Model Development

Simultaneous with the industries increasing growth, the companies must acquire the new technologies to achieve the core competency, survival and improvement and also effectiveness in market. Choosing the suitable acquisition mode of required technology is one of the critical strategic decisions in the field of technology management. Due to the importance of technology acquisition, the main objective of this study is to select an appropriate method of technology acquisition in car part industry by multi-dimensional factors of environmental, technological, capability and market. Hence, after extracting the factors from surveying the related literature and conforming the first kind of questionnaire by the cronbach’s alpha, the elements was ranked by TOPSIS method to reduce the criteria and to choose the appropriate affecting elements in technology acquisition modes. In the next step regarding to ANP method second questioners spread between the experts in the car part industry in Iran and the modes were prioritized and the applied recommendations have been suggested.