Soft modeling of organizational factors affecting the competitiveness of commercial banks based on interpretive structural approach
Volume 11, Issue 2, December 2024, Pages 123-132
https://doi.org/10.22116/jiems.2025.512343.1594
Vahid Nasehifar, Mahmoud Mohammadian, Mohammad Taghi Taghavifard, Ali MansourSadeghi
Abstract The issue of competitiveness has been considered by many researchers in recent decades, because it has become one of the most strategic and fundamental issues of business organizations, because it is the basis of survival and sustainability of the organization; In this regard, in accordance with the purpose and problem, the main strategy of the research is methodological pluralism by using simultaneously the qualitative method of thematic analysis and the quantitative method of structural-interpretive modeling in sequence. In the qualitative part of the research population, there were 15 experts were extracted 138 basic themes, 37 organizing themes and 14 global themes, which is the basis of quantitative analysis. The sample of the research in the quantitative part was the opinions of 11 managers of private banks in the country. The final model consists of 6 levels; In the first level of business model innovation, the most influential component and in the sixth level, market share, internal performance and international performance are the most influential components of competitiveness. Influence and dependency analysis using MICMAC shows that the criteria of organizational culture, human resource management and business model innovation are low dependency and high leadership; External stakeholder management criteria, internal performance, bank attractiveness and market share, these variables have strong dependence and poor guidance, and knowledge management criteria and business intelligence They have the nature of interface and dependency criteria.
A quantitative model for optimization and disruption mitigation in a supply chain (Auto parts case study)
Volume 6, Issue 1, June 2019, Pages 111-129
https://doi.org/10.22116/jiems.2019.87662
Seyed Ali Alavikia, Mohammad Taghi TaghaviFard, Maghsoud Amiri, Parham Azimi
Abstract However, there is a lot of capital and plenty of manpower in the auto spare part industry, the enterprises and supply chains of this industry do not perform well in our country. This research models a three-level supply chain with multiple manufacturers, distribution centers and retailers, to minimize the total cost by taking into account various disruptions. The database of two active car spare parts companies for five strategic products in one year has been used. Then, the mathematical model is analyzed by considering disruptions based on three different sales policies: back orders, lost sales and outsourcing. Besides, to evaluate the performance of the model some numerical examples are used and analyzed to determine that algorithm works. Model solved efficiently by MATLAB software. The results show that the proposed algorithm of this research can neutralize the effect of the disruptions and cause a significant reduction in total cost of the system. The model is useful for helping decision makers to adopt an active approach to maintaining business benefits when disruptions take place in the supply chain.