The technical expertise that politicians relied on in the past to produce cost-effective and environmentally sound solutions no longer provides sufficient justification to approve waste facilities. Local authorities need to find more effective ways to involve stakeholders and communities in decision-making since public acceptance of municipal waste facilities is integral to delivering effective...

Risk response planning is one of the main phases in the project risk management and has major impacts on the success of a large-scale project. Since projects are unique, and risks are dynamic through the life of the projects, it is necessary to formulate responses of the important risks. The conventional approaches tend to be less effective in dealing with the impreciseness of risk response p...

Activity-Based Costing/Management (ABC/M) is an Information System developed in the 1980s to overcome some of the limitations of traditional cost accounting and to enhance its usefulness to strategic decision-making. In this paper, we show how an ABC/M system can serve as a useful information system to support effective operations decision-making processes. We propose a conceptual framework, Op...

one dimension approach for management has been resulted in many challenges in order to sustainable policy. network governance and ultra-structure insight implication could remedy some of challenges of sustainable development. the aim of this paper is analysis of institutional network with co-management of sorkheh hesar national park in tehran province. quantitative approaches are used for this ...

Key points to effective decision making assistance are helping decision-makers understand their decisions and develop the insight necessary for action. Such assistance must recognize and break through the ignorance that is often the primary source of decision-making difficulty. Decision analysis as tool for formal decision making methodology is employed to assist decision-makers facing difficul...

Nowadays, many enterprises choose to outsource its non-core business to other enterprises to reduce cost and increase the efficiency. Many enterprises choose to outsource their supply chain management (SCM) and leave it to a third-party organization in order to improve their services. The paper proposes an integrated and multicriteria tool useful to monitor and to improve performance in an outs...

todays, decision makers in the organization need toconstantly monitor changes in the environment and organization andmake necessary changes. therefore knowledge about the environmentand organization is necessary in decision making. knowledgemanagement is a key factor for competitive business environment andorganizations are investing heavily in creating centralized knowledgerepositories to impr...