• 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