Strategic Planing
mohammadhossein kabgani; hamid shahbandarzadeh
Abstract
In a city, there are different sectors in operation and each sector also plays a role in the production of municipal waste, which draws attention to waste management methods. In the present study, a model to identify the factors affecting the production of waste in Bushehr has been explained.
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In a city, there are different sectors in operation and each sector also plays a role in the production of municipal waste, which draws attention to waste management methods. In the present study, a model to identify the factors affecting the production of waste in Bushehr has been explained.
Methodology: The main dimensions of the model are taken from the review of the theoretical literature in the field of urban waste management. Dynamic systems approach has also been used to identify urban waste management strategies, which is the main purpose of this study. In this research, we have tried to first identify the factors affecting the production of municipal waste and model it with the help of dynamic systems. Dynamic systems can include the complexity, nonlinearity, and cyclic feedback structures that are inherent in physical and non-physical systems. Therefore, they have the advantages of using the simulation method over the analysis methods. In the next step, the internal and external factors of the organization in the field of urban waste management and by referring to the SWOT analysis method, urban waste management strategies in Bushehr were performed.
Findings: The results of the SWOT method showed that the vulnerability threshold of urban waste management in Bushehr is very high and it is necessary to provide appropriate policies to address weaknesses and threats using strengths and opportunities. In the next step, Mikhailov's nonlinear method was used to rank the four strategies. The results of using this approach show that among SO strategies, the strategy of increasing awareness and changing citizens' attitudes towards proper waste management is in the first place. Among ST strategies, culturing for the use of recyclable containers weighing 0.51 is in the first place. Employing knowledgeable people for proper waste segregation and disposal among WT strategies, with a weight of 0.57 was ranked first, and finally the strategy of encouraging the private sector to invest with a weight equivalent to 0.43 among WO strategies Ranked first.
Originality/Value: The current research is innovative by focusing on combining fuzzy logic with dynamic systems modeling approach and Delphi method.
Strategic Planing
Zahra Joorbonyan; Ali Sorourkhah; Seyyed Ahmad Edalatpanah
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In a competitive environment , various ways to maintain, survive, or grow the organization are conceivable. Among these, marketing experts believe that customer loyalty is one of the most effective tools in facing this challenge. To achieve customer loyalty, various and diverse strategies have been mentioned ...
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In a competitive environment , various ways to maintain, survive, or grow the organization are conceivable. Among these, marketing experts believe that customer loyalty is one of the most effective tools in facing this challenge. To achieve customer loyalty, various and diverse strategies have been mentioned in the literature by researchers and experts, which organizations can use, depending on the conditions, one or a combination of them. In such circumstances, managers usually have several strategies at their disposal and must choose the most appropriate one(s) from among them. The present study aims to provide a combined approach for prioritizing customer loyalty strategies.
This research uses a matrix-based approach to robustness analysis, which can deal with both complexity and uncertainty. The proposed algorithm combines it with strategic planning tools (strategies derived from strategic objectives and SWOT analysis) for prioritizing and selecting strategies. The proposed approach was implemented in a case study on prioritizing customer loyalty strategies for a women's clothing boutique in Ramsar City. Available strategies, influential environmental variables, definitions of future scenarios, and the performance of strategies in different environmental conditions were determined based on the judgments of the problem owner.
The results showed that considering influential environmental variables (national currency value, market access and raw materials, lifestyle changes, investment security, government-private sector relations, and the speed of technological change), supplier selection, contractor selection, and attracting a sponsor have the highest priority strategies. Afterward, environmental advertising, collaborative production, and customer relationship management were placed in subsequent rankings. The outputs of the proposed approach indicate that considering the country's foreseeable future conditions, higher-priority strategies minimize environmental risks and their impact on the business.
The literature suggests that classical strategic planning approaches (QSPM) or multi-criteria decision-making approaches (MCDM) are used in most cases of such decision-making. Despite their capabilities and features, these approaches face challenges in dealing with variable and evolving conditions (future uncertainty). An alternative approach, robustness analysis, can consider alternative futures but cannot define available strategies. Based on this, combining the matrix approach to robustness analysis with classical strategic planning approaches will be a response to the above problem.
Strategic Planing
Sajad Moradi
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Purpose: This article studies an issue in the fish farming industry in which the goal is to find the best multi-period planning for handling various chains, including ordering, breeding, and selling of trout over a time horizon.Methodology: In this study, a new formulation is presented as a mixed integer ...
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Purpose: This article studies an issue in the fish farming industry in which the goal is to find the best multi-period planning for handling various chains, including ordering, breeding, and selling of trout over a time horizon.Methodology: In this study, a new formulation is presented as a mixed integer linear programming model that could find the optimum solution quickly. In the new proposed formulation, some intermediate stages of the breeding chain that do not affect decisions are ignored, and therefore, the size and complexity of the proposed model reduce without compromising the optimality of the answers.Findings: After implementing the proposed model, using different data samples, it can be seen that this model achieves the optimal solution in a short time, including volume and time of spawning in each breeding chain and different periods, harvesting time, and accepting or rejecting the main demands.Originality/Value: In this paper, the issue of scheduling of fish farming chains and sales management, which there are a few studies in this field, has been studied and a new mixed integer linear programming model is presented. Compared to the previous model, this model has more realistic assumptions and less complexity and execution time.
Strategic Planing
Narjes Bossaghzadeh; Mahmoud Moradi; Mohammad Tamimi
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Purpose: Despite the growing importance of the role of knowledge in promoting innovation performance and maintaining competitive advantage in a highly competitive global environment, organizations face many difficulties in utilizing and developing the external knowledge flow infrastructure. Promoting ...
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Purpose: Despite the growing importance of the role of knowledge in promoting innovation performance and maintaining competitive advantage in a highly competitive global environment, organizations face many difficulties in utilizing and developing the external knowledge flow infrastructure. Promoting organizational learning based on absorptive capacity theory and creating exploration and exploitation structures based on organizational ambidexterity theory can be an explanation to help organizations to solve these problems. This study aims to explain the effect of knowledge absorptive capacity in achieving competitive advantage and the mediating role of organizational ambidexterity in a study in export companies.Methodology: The initial model was extracted from the literature and in the qualitative stage through in-depth interviews with experts, the final conceptual model was drawn. The research questionnaire, after confirming its reliability and validity, was distributed among managers and experts of Iranian export companies by random sampling method. The statistical population of the research were 570 top Iranian export companies. In the qualitative section, sampling was performed by theoretical sampling method and 11 managers of companies with more than 5 and 10 years of experience were selected. The field of activity of selected companies included: gas and petrochemical, steel, auto parts, pipes and fittings and food.Findings: In the quantitative section, a sample of 78 companies was selected with the help of G*Power software. Qualitative data analysis was performed by ATLAS.ti and quantitative data with Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) based on Partial Least Squares (PLS). The results show that the absorptive capacity does not have a significant effect on the competitive advantage. Nevertheless, the effect of this variable on organizational ambidexterity and the effect of organizational ambidexterity on competitive advantage is significant. Therefore, it can be said that organizational ambidexterity has been a perfect mediator in the relationship between absorptive capacity and competitive advantage.Originality/Value: The findings of this study provide a path for export companies in order to gain a competitive advantage. Companies can facilitate the flow of external knowledge into the organization by strengthening the ambidexterious organizational structures, creating learning environments and strengthening the capacity to absorb knowledge.
Strategic Planing
Behrouz Khoshnamak; Suleiman Iranzadeh; Assadaleh Khadivi; Houshang Taghizadeh
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A mixed approach (qualitative and quantitative) has been used to conduct this research. In the qualitative part of the research, until the achievement of theoretical saturation, with 11 people who were purposefully selected, semi-structured interviews were conducted and the proposed conceptual model ...
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A mixed approach (qualitative and quantitative) has been used to conduct this research. In the qualitative part of the research, until the achievement of theoretical saturation, with 11 people who were purposefully selected, semi-structured interviews were conducted and the proposed conceptual model of the research was formed based on the six stages of the theme analysis approach. The proposed model of this part of the research includes 11 sub-categories: Personality, interaction, environmental awareness, marketing, environmental communications, human capital management, proper management of the general office/branch, general knowledge, specialized knowledge, structure, and content, and 5 main categories: Individual competence, environmental competence, managerial competence, knowledge competence, and organizational competence consisted of 44 concepts. In the quantitative part of the research, the final model derived from the qualitative approach was provided to the research experts in the form of a Delphi questionnaire to determine the most important indicators of the competency of the research organizational positions and during several round-trip stages of the questionnaire and the theoretical consensus of experts. It was determined the index of reform and management of processes and methods of work for the organizational positions of the general manager of the province, the administrative, and financial deputy of the province and the head of the specialized department.
Strategic Planing
Fereydoon Rahnamay Roodposhti; Mohsen Imeni; Shadi Sayadmanesh
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Balanced Scorecard used as a tool of strategic assessment and suggested that all performance of organizations should not only be studied financial metrics but must non-financial metrics also be considered. BSC concept encompasses a larger area of the business segment. However, Balanced Scorecard is in ...
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Balanced Scorecard used as a tool of strategic assessment and suggested that all performance of organizations should not only be studied financial metrics but must non-financial metrics also be considered. BSC concept encompasses a larger area of the business segment. However, Balanced Scorecard is in practice very complex and in terms of the measurement system and implementation is very successful. But it could be concluded that there are still shortcomings which some scholars have identified it. For this reason were suggested innovative methods to reform the traditional model and performance indicators, such as Balanced Scorecard Knowledge-Based System (BSCKBS), the Proactive BSC Methodology (PBCSM), Lean Balanced Scorecard Card (LBSC), Balanced IT Scorecard (BITS), BSC - Analytic Network Process (ANP) and BSC - Control Objectives for Information Technology (COBIT). In the present study, innovative methods were introduced for reform the traditional model of BSC according to historical recognition method, were studied. The results show that in recent year's wealth of researches is done on the use of new approaches in the field of management accounting in particular BSC, with the aim of eliminating defects in the traditional model and help in decision making for strategic decision making.
Strategic Planing
Mehrnoush Moghimi Kia; Amir Najafi
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Background and Aim: The present study, with an emphasis on the fundamental and critical importance of the Green Approach in the organization's marketing strategies, is interested in a scientific and practical response to this research question, which "The effect of green marketing strategies on performance ...
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Background and Aim: The present study, with an emphasis on the fundamental and critical importance of the Green Approach in the organization's marketing strategies, is interested in a scientific and practical response to this research question, which "The effect of green marketing strategies on performance through knowledge creation parameters?".Method: The present study is based on descriptive, analytical (correlation) and applied research in the field of green and green marketing in the single-grain company. The statistical population consisted of almost 150 people. Sampling without placement from the finite society and using the Morgan table, studied 90 of the community. Librarian studies, interviews, and the use of a questionnaire designed by the researcher are three methods that the present study has used to collect the information it needs. The "Cronbach Alpha" has applied for measuring the reliability of the instrument. Besides, to test the content's validity of this tool, it is used the opinion of elites related to the subject under study with the literature and theoretical theories.Findings and Conclusion: The results showed that each of the hypotheses is statistically significant, green marketing strategies have a positive and significant effect on the organisation's performance due to knowledge creation parameters, and the impact of each of the elements of the green blend on the strategies of knowledge creation is not the same.
Strategic Planing
Hossein Ahmadi; Amir Najafi
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When dealing with international and overseas markets, corporate executives face somewhat complex strategic tasks related to the risk, stability, and potential returns of markets in the world. Selection from various international markets for export, concessions, joint venture and ... needs information ...
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When dealing with international and overseas markets, corporate executives face somewhat complex strategic tasks related to the risk, stability, and potential returns of markets in the world. Selection from various international markets for export, concessions, joint venture and ... needs information from the country and the target market. The evaluation of information in different types of market factors determines the extent of success in the international arena. Foreign market information can be derived from a combination of industry, market, and types of transactions. In this research, efforts have been made to investigate the effective factors and their prioritization on the decision-making on the export of Smart Cards of Sa-Iran to international countries. This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-survey nature. To test the research hypotheses and obtain the results, SPSS software, one sample T test and Friedman test were used. The results of the hypothesis test showed that the factors affecting the decision making of exports by Sa-Iran to international countries are as follows: 1) legal environment; 2) political factor; 3) culture; 4) economic factor; 5) infrastructure.
Data Envelopment Analyses
elahe shariatmadari; seyed esmaeil najafi; ali taghizadeh harat