Journal of Modelling in Management: Volume 11 Issue 1

Modeling the barriers of service adoption in rural Indian telecom using integrated ISM-ANP

Abhay Kumar Bhadani, Ravi Shankar, D. Vijay Rao

This paper aims to understand and identify the various barriers in adopting new telecom services in rural areas for improving the penetration and revenue of the telecom companies…

Graphical interpretation of outranking principles: Avoiding misinterpretation results from ELECTRE I

Helder Gomes Costa

This study aims to use a graphical approach to highlight the differences between outranking and preference relationships. The outranking principle is based on a structure of…

Configuration of supply chain integration and delivery performance: Unitary structure model and fuzzy approach

Premaratne Samaranayake, Tritos Laosirihongthong

The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework of integrated supply chain model that can be used to measure, evaluate and monitor operational performance under…

Strategic management of technical university: structural equation modelling approach

Shivaprasad Dandagi, Umesh Bhushi, Virupaxi Bagodi, Deepankar Sinha

The purpose of this paper is to examine the constructs and establish causal relationship between factors for strategically governing a technical university in Indian context…

Importance of CEM in CRM-CL framework

Jagwinder Singh, Shivani Saini

– The purpose of this paper is to propose a model to understand the role of customer relationship management efforts in building, sustaining and enhancing customer loyalty (CL).

Predicting the progress trends of science and technology in Iran through a system dynamics approach

Reza Dabestani, Nasim Nahavandi, Mohammad Saljoughian

The purpose of this study is an attempt to identify the most crucial factors and their influence on one another, which can result in predicting the country’s next phase of…

Modeling organizational intelligence using DEMATEL method in Iranian public universities

Gholamreza Malekzadeh, Mostaffa Kazemi, Mohammad Lagzian, Saeed Mortazavi

This paper aims to investigate a novel model for organizational intelligence (OI) in Iranian public universities. OI is an effective concept in organizational behavior for…

Integrating knowledge management (KM) strategies and processes to enhance organizational creativity and performance: An empirical investigation

Khuram Shahzad, Sami Ullah Bajwa, Ahmed Faisal Imtiaz Siddiqi, Farhan Ahmid, Ali Raza Sultani

– This study aims to identify if an integration between knowledge strategy and knowledge management (KM) processes leads to organizational creativity and performance.

Higher-order models with reflective indicators: A rejoinder to a recent call for their abandonment

Dirk Temme, Adamantios Diamantopoulos

Higher-order factor models have recently been dismissed as a ‘misleading’, ‘meaningless’, and ‘needless’ approach for modeling multidimensional constructs (Lee and Cadogan, 2013;…

Modeling the factors and their inter-dependencies for investment decision in Indian mobile service sector

Abhay Kumar Bhadani, Ravi Shankar, D. Vijay Rao

The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors influencing investment decisions in mobile services for profitablity and to become a global leader in mobile services sector…

Proposing a hybrid method based on DEA and ANP for ranking organizational units and prioritizing human capital management drivers

Mohammad Mehdi Tavakoli, Hadi Shirouyehzad, Reza Dabestani

The purpose of this study is to present a hybrid analytic network process (ANP) and data envelopment analysis (DEA) method for ranking organizational units as well as prioritizing…

The impact of national culture and knowledge management on governmental intelligence

Cristiano Trindade De Angelis

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the integration of intelligences plays a great role in changing the organisational and national culture and, in consequence, in…

Information technology is an enabling factor affecting supply chain performance in Indian SMEs: A structural equation modelling approach

Sushanta Tripathy, Satyabrata Aich, Anurup Chakraborty, Gyu M. Lee

The purpose of this paper is to identify the success factors for supply chain in Indian small- and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) and establish a causal relationship among them…

Development of fuzzy two-stage DEA model for competitive advantage based on RBV and strategic agility as a dynamic capability

Maryam Hemmati, Davood Feiz, Mohammad Reza Jalilvand, Iman Kholghi

This paper aims to develop a framework for competitive advantage by systematic quantitative methodology based on resource-based view and dynamic capability theory. Strategic…

Selecting Six Sigma projects: MCDM or DEA?

Ali Yousefi, Abdollah Hadi-Vencheh

Nowadays, most of the organizations have focused through the world on Six Sigma to reduce the costs, improve the productivity and enhance concerned individuals’ satisfaction…

Multi-criteria supplier selection model using the analytic hierarchy process approach

Vinod Yadav, Milind Kumar Sharma

The purpose of this paper is to propose a supplier selection model for an automobile company using analytic hierarchy process (AHP) approach. Supplier selection is now growing to…