Alireza Arab

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Assistant Professor at University of Mazandaran

In the last decades, increasing in human and natural disaster occurrence, had very irreparable effects on human life. Hence one of the important issues in humanitarian supply chain management is identifying and prioritizing the different risks and finding suitable solutions for encountering them at the time of disaster occurrence. This study is an...

Technological alliances have become a popular strategy to cope with competitive pressures, short product life cycles, high research and development (R&D) costs and entry barriers. Firms gain access to complementary technologies, insulate from environmental uncertainty, increase knowledge base, access new markets and preserve leadership by using str...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review studies on mathematical optimization of the sustainable gasoline supply chain to help decision-makers understand the current situation, the exact dimensions of the problem and the models provided in the literature. So, a more realistic mathematical optimization model can be achieved by fully covering a...

Any renewable energy supply chain's (RESC) performance measurement system comprises complex interconnected indicators. Hence, this research aims to propose an integrated RESC performance measurement framework containing all the performance measurement criteria and their indicators. This study identified six critical performance criteria through a c...

Any renewable energy supply chain's (RESC) performance measurement system comprises complex interconnected indicators. Hence, this research aims to propose an integrated RESC performance measurement framework containing all the performance measurement criteria and their indicators. This study identified six critical performance criteria through a c...

Reverse logistics (RL) have received the attention of the practitioners and researchers of the fields of supply chain and logistics due to, inter alia, the increase in public awareness, boundless waste generation, and environmental issues. To formulate RL issues, multi-objective decision-making (MODM) techniques are of the most practical approaches...

In this study, the existence of anchoring bias-people's tendency to rely on, evaluate, and decide based on the first piece of information they receive-is examined in two multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) methods, simple multi-attribute rating technique (SMART), and Swing. Data were collected from university students for a transportation mode s...

Nowadays steel industry is one of the industries that plays an essential role in countries’ growth. Today, the integration of sustainability in the steel industry’s supply chain has become a significant concern of industry owners and research-ers. Therefore, this study aims to identify and evaluate supply chain sustainability attributes in the stee...

One of the most important steps in formulating and solving a multiattribute decision‐making (MADM) problem is weighting the attributes. Most existing weighting methods are based on judgments by experts/decision‐makers, which are prone to several cognitive biases, making it necessary to examine these biases in MADM weighting methods and develop debi...

Applying any kind of manufacturing strategy requires evaluating the current situation of the system at the internal and external levels and providing strategies for improving the system performance. Hence, the study presents review and design the optimal manufacturing strategy for increasing the efficiency of the automotive industry. This article p...

The crucial role of bureaucracy in the economic, political, socio-cultural and political structures, and its impact in achieving the goals of organization is so important that in order to achieve the development, change directions consists of purifying and modernization of the administrative system in Iran also seems necessary. An important part of...

Operational strategy is one of the essential tools for operations management in the current competitive environment. The operational strategy focuses on the activities of the operational levels in line with the competitive priorities of the organization. Hence, the present study tries to review and design the most appropriate operational strategies...

Developing and accepting industry 4.0 influences the industry structure and customer willingness. To a successful transition to industry 4.0, implementation strategies should be selected with a systematic and comprehensive view to responding to the changes flexibly. This research aims to identify and prioritise the strategies for implementing indus...

Background: The role of the valid research and its proper implementation in the overall ascendency state of the society is obvious, and the promotion of the quality of research and, consequently, the improvement of the life and welfare of the people of society in the light of moral values is possible. The advancement of science will be possible in...

In the business world today, intense competition among the firms forces them to operate under conditions of uncertainty which, in turn, gives rise to numerous risks that can negatively impact the supply chain and lower profitability and competitive advantage. Expansion and density of communication network in the supply chain, on the one hand, and i...

Innovation capability is a key factor for innovation continuity in businesses and giving them the ability to effectively compete in today's changing environment. Also Banks that are one of the most service organizations, required significant innovations to remain in competitive environment and this leads them to do innovative work that attracts new...

Personnel selection (PS) is an important process in human resource management. PS process is aimed at choosing the best candidate to fill the defined vacancy in a company. Due to the increasing competition of globalization, selection of the most appropriate personnel is one of the key factors for an organization's success. Decision making for the P...

Inventory management is an important part of production planning process for enterprises which involve decision-making process. They can determine when and how many things to buy or decisions can be made by ranking the inventory items. The aim of this paper is providing a model based on fuzzy hybrid MCDM methods by using FDEMATEL and FVIKOR in orde...

Environmental management systems have been established and developed based on ISO 14001 in order to assess and improve the organization's environmental performance via providing a framework for evaluation and monitoring of the processes for all aspects related to the environment. This article aimed at ranking the key success factors of implementati...

Uncertainty is inherent and inevitable component of projects. Existence of risks and uncertainties in projects leads to decline in accuracy of estimating targets appropriately and reduction in projects efficiency. In this way, achieving to a tools that can evaluate project's risk level and as a result of this estimate real deviation amount is very...

Due to nature of natural disasters the response to them must be done within a short period. In order to achieve these objectives, the humanitarian supply chain is a key area where improvement can be achieved effective results. This article first introduces the major success factors in humanitarian supply chain and then using interpretive structural...

The concept of green supply chain management formed in manufacturing industries and recently put its focus on environmental issues. Various industries are trying to identify barriers for green supply chain implementation. In the past decade, due to the continuous environmental damage such as increased pollution, exhaustion of natural resources, ext...

Due to the economic status of livestock and poultry feed conversion industries and the need for smoothing and ensuring the business continuity that is the main goal of this industry، and according to importance of an efficient structure for business continuity of industries، this study takes a major step for the sustainability of these industries،...

This study seeks to investigate and understand why and how Iranian higher education students choose to study overseas. After critically analyzing the international student mobility literature, the important factors are distilled. Then, by using Fuzzy-Delphi Method (FDM), 15 factors are selected from the 21 factors initially selected by reviewing th...

The purpose of the study was to identify and prioritize the effective factors on organizational commitment and its effect on production productivity in Aras Khodro Diesel Company. The research method was applied and sectional descriptive correlation. The statistical population included all of the employees of Aras Khodro Diesel Company which added...

Billions of people are affected by worldwide natural and man-made disasters each year. There is considerable evidence that the number of disasters is increasing, but there is still relatively little-published work aimed at improving the understanding of the different barriers of the humanitarian supply chain (HSC) and finding suitable solutions for...

Today Supply chains of organizations need to developing knowledge in order to achieve competitive advantages. Hence, knowledge management (KM) plays an important role in supply chain to create, build, maintain and utilize knowledge in this way. KM adoption in the supply chain needs high investment as well as few changes in the culture in whole of o...

Medical tourism industry is an International phenomenon, which most of tourists for some reasons such as high costs of treatment, long waiting queues, lack of insurance and lack of access to health care in the origin country travel long distances to benefit from health care services of destination country. Given the competitive nature of this indus...

Today, organizations require an integrated system for Enterprise resource in order to achieve higher quality and velocity in the provision of goods and services. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is one of the best tools to achieve this goal, which Selecting the appropriate system due to effective criteria is necessary for successful implementatio...

Developing innovation, based on knowledge and technology, as a driving force of the economy, is necessary for survival and is required in having strong interactions within the globalized world of business. Not only firms do not innovate solitary but innovation and technology development requires an intertwined network of organizational interactions...

Suitable project manager has a significant impact on successful accomplishment of the project. Managers should possess such skills in order to effectively cope with the competition. In this respect, selecting managers based on their skills can lead to a competitive advantage towards the achievement of organizational goals. selection of the suitable...

Over the years, many researchers have focused on supply chain risk management (SCRM) by contributing in the areas of defining, operationalizing, and mitigating risks. In this paper, we review the literature in SCRM. The present paper delivers a robust and systematic literature review (SLR) on supply chain risk management (SCRM) between 2005 and 201...

Nowadays, selection of an optimal project has become a challenging problems for managers and Decision makers because of the high sensitivity and complexity of projects in the investment and uniqueness of them.in this kinds of problems a number of objective and subjective criteria should be taken into consideration. Also, due to defects in the judgm...

Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a widely used engineering technique for designing, identifying and eliminating known and/or potential failures, problems, errors and so on from system, design, process, and/or service before they reach the customer. In a typical FMEA, for each failure Modes, three risk factors; severity (S), occurrence (O...

The present study aimed to evaluating the impact of success key factors of supply chain agility on the strategic performance of the Electronics companies in Iran. In the conceptual model of the research, the strategic performance of the organization involves competitive advantage and organizational performance. In this model, supply chain agility w...

Today's business environment has caused a high level of uncertainty and turbulent behavior in supply chains. Supply chains require resilience capability to deal with high levels of complexity, unpredictable events and threats. Suppliers in most cases are the main sources of external risks which provide widespread levels of disruptions in supply cha...

Health care Wastes, which produce in most hospitals, laboratories and clinics, causes spread of dangerous and contagious diseases and are a serious threat to human health and the environment Due to contamination and the losses caused by the lack of health care waste management. Now days there are 4 common technologies for the disposal of hospital w...

Motivated and specialist human force is the most important asset of any organization. The progress of any society depends on the protection and proper utilization of human resources and the academic elite.so recognizing effective factors upon motivation and job satisfaction of the employees can be useful in education or investigation aims. This Res...

Proper and suitable Human resource recruitment is one of the key factors for manufacturing companies’ success. The aim of this research is providing a fuzzy multi-criteria decision making model to evaluate job applicants regarding to the priorities of decision makers. Integrated two-stage fuzzy multi-criteria approach suggested to hiring a Bachelor...