making an informed decision with regards to a suitable business location or site selection for organizations is becoming challenging for business decision makers globally; and even more challenging in business environment that are saddled with uncertainties. the continues raise of multiple criteria variation of site preferences has also necessitated the application of advanced decision making t...

Making an informed decision with regards to a suitable business location or site selection for organizations is becoming challenging for business decision makers globally; and even more challenging in business environment that are saddled with uncertainties. The continues raise of multiple criteria variation of site preferences has also necessitated the application of advanced decision making t...

using firm-level panel data for korean mnes, we make a distinction between being the only affiliate of a parent firm and being the one of the multiple affiliates of a parent firm. comparisons of correlations between purchases and sales of each group of the foreign affiliates show distinctive difference in the motivations of fdi and the multinational activities, due to the difference in the numb...

This study presents a location choice model that incorporates urban spatial effects for enterprises. A modeling framework is developed to analyze decisions regarding enterprises using series of discrete models including multinomial logit without any effects, incorporating and mixed effects. In this framework, such as the correlation among in deterministic terms zones error term, are captured by...

Third party service providers are locating logistic hub for operating their tasks. Finding a proper location helps them to have better performance in competitive environment. Multiple characteristics of proper location selection faces the decision maker to have a multi criteria decision making problem. Since the location decision is a long term planning, the robustness of the decision is gettin...

rough sets theory is a mathematical approach for analysis of a vague description of objects presented by a well-known mathematician, pawlak (1982, 1991). this paper explores the use of rough sets theory in site location investigation of buried concrete water reservoirs. making an appropriate decision in site location can always avoid unnecessary expensive costs which is very important in constr...

Abstract The purpose of this study is to consider an international facility location problem under uncertainty and present an integrated model for strategic and operational planning. The paper offers two methodologies for the location selection decision. First the extended VIKOR method for decision making problem with interval numbers is presented as a methodology for strategic evaluation of po...

the main purpose of this paper is to present a fuzzy multi-criteria decision making (fmadm) model for appropriate location selection of a health center. therefore, we identify sixteen criteria and sub-criteria for selecting a health center location. these criteria and sub-criteria have been obtained from literature reviews and practical interviews. this paper proposes a method which combines th...