DocumentCode
1649535
Title
Study of products strategies in small and medium enterprises with implementing goal decision making
Author
Radfar, Reza ; Ashraghi, Abas Toloie ; Abedi, Sadegh
Author_Institution
Dept. of Manage., Islamic Azad Univ., Tehran, Iran
fYear
2010
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
6
Abstract
Nowadays scholars pay attention on SMEs because of more benefits in compare with Large Enterprises, such as: Value added, Innovation, Entrepreneurs and flexibility. But the other face of the coin is lack of production resources in SMEs. One of the solutions for this problem in researches has been used the potential in contractors companies, in form of out sourcing of activities and projects. In this paper we studied the production strategies in Iran´ SMEs by identification and prioritizing the production factors and implementing the Goal Decision making model. Case studies consist of 5 different companies in the same field of production; approach us to analyzing the companies´ situation. The paper presented the Matrix, base on results from models and case studies. This matrix suggested the different SME´s situation for selected production strategies.
Keywords
contracts; decision making; matrix algebra; outsourcing; production management; small-to-medium enterprises; activity outsourcing; contractors company; goal decision making model; matrix; production factor; production strategy; products strategy; project outsourcing; small and medium enterprises; Analytical models; Indexes; Investments; Joints; Mathematical model; Outsourcing; Production; Goal Programming; Outsourcing; Productive Strategies; Small and Medium Enterprises;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Computers and Industrial Engineering (CIE), 2010 40th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Awaji
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-7295-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICCIE.2010.5668169
Filename
5668169
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