Mohammad Taghi Taghavifard

• Ph.D.
• Professor at Allameh Tabataba'i University

Extended Abstract Introduction and objectives: Urban development and the increase in intercity and intracity transportation have led to a significant rise in transportation costs. This rise in cost increases the final product price and consequently the product's market price. Additionally, the economic aspect is not the only concern; increased tran...

In the competitive business environment, organizations face challenges such as rapid customer needs changes and uncertainty, necessitating continuous adjustments in business processes to maintain competitive advantage. Fundamental changes can lower service costs, reduce time, and ultimately increase profitability. Organizations increasingly leverag...

Leveraging supplementary technology such as Blockchain has the potential to alter the stakeholders involved in a system. Paying attention to stakeholders is one of the main pillars of developing a system. Evidence has shown that Blockchain can solve existing challenges and add new capabilities. These actions will change the stakeholders of PHR. If...

Due to the speed and uncertainty of environmental changes, firms become less confident in the effectiveness of planning that is based on previous experience and assumptions. Instead, executives started to recognize that business decisions should not only be driven by past data, but also be based on systematic evaluation of possible forthcoming tren...

How to Cite Amirian, S., Amiri, M., Taghav-ifard, M.T. (2024). "Optimiz-ing supply chain design for sustainability and reliability: A comparative study of augmented epsilon and normalized normal constraint methods", Control and Optimization in Applied Mathematics, 9(1): 97-130. Abstract. Integrating sustainability and reliability represents a syner...

In today's world, full of fluctuations and changes, the success of organizations vitally depends on the unity and Alignment of all the components of the organization in line with its Strategic objectives. Given the significant investment that organizations are now making in the field of Information Technology, it is critical to use Information Tech...

Claim prediction plays a leading role in risk management for insurance companies. This research proposes a risk management model by evaluating property policy's risk and classifying risk levels to reduce uncertainty for decision-makers. The approach consists of three phases. Phase I is claims prediction; It integrates three claim predictions: occur...

This study develops a research model to explain the acceptance of social banking. In order to find the antecedents of social banking intention, a meta-combination has been used. The results of a systematic review of the last decade of social commerce acceptance studies and the use of fuzzy Delphi and fuzzy DEMATEL methods led to the development of...

Small, medium and high-yield industries in the direction of strengthening production and employment, especially to maintain and strengthen the country's economic strength in difficult economic conditions; they play a very important role. Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) is a topic for small and medium industries in developing economies. In th...

Many real-life issues can be modeled as multi-criteria sorting problems. In this type of problem, a set of options are assigned to predefined classes. This research aims to propose a new hybrid approach including simplified group best–worst and multi-criteria sorting methods to classify options considering decision-maker constraints. It is crucial...

Shorter product life due to technology development and changing customer needs requires optimal supply chain management and structuring. Achieving this optimization brings productivity to the organization. A sustainable and reliable supply chain (S&RSC) as an emerging paradigm, with a comprehensive view, leads the supply chain network design (SCND)...

A model for controlling the risk of crowdfunding services (Case: Bank Mellat) Abstract: Nowadays, thanks to the emergence of new approaches in social networks, definitions and behavioral models of businesses have undergone structural changes and by peeling in some dimensions has led to redefining concepts in the field of business and that business...

One of the most important issues in the cultural and social field is performance appraisal. Because the nature of cultural and social activities is intangible and intertwined with abstraction, it is inherently difficult to evaluate its results and effects. Defining this issue in a bureaucratic context such as Tehran Municipality is associated with...

Aim & Background: Joint review of green supply chain management and social responsibility results can provide valuable insights for companies in accepting and implementing green supply chain management and help them to improve the company's performance by adopting green supply chain management. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect...

Aim & Background: Joint review of green supply chain management and social responsibility results can provide valuable insights for companies in accepting and implementing green supply chain management and help them to improve the company's performance by adopting green supply chain management. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect...

Data coverage analysis is one of the most widely used methods for evaluating banks' performance. In the field of performance evaluation of banks, various data coverage analysis models such as basic CCR, BCC, multi-stage and network models with various indicators have been presented. In this research, first, the types of indicators in the evaluation...

In most data envelopment analysis (DEA) models, the internal structure of production units is ignored during the evaluation process. To solve this problem, a stepwise DEA model has been considered by the researchers. Another weakness of classical DEA models is that the weights of inputs and outputs are being changed each time the model is run. In s...

Background & Purpose: Due to the increasing expansion of holding structures in Iranian organizations, it is necessary for these companies to be able to properly assess the human resource management system of their subsidiaries, given the importance of human capital in creating value for companies. Thus, the purpose of this study is to provide a mod...

Cloud computing has become a disruptive technology in recent years which brings numerous benefits to enterprises; however, as any other technology it is accompanied with some risks. Firms can achieve competitive advantage if they simultaneously explore new opportunity and exploit their existing knowledge and capabilities through investing on cloud...

Social commerce as a new paradigm of commerce has been considered for about a decade. The first attempt to apply this paradigm is to examine its acceptance process. In this research, social commerce acceptance studies have been reviewed with primary and secondary search strategies. The main purpose of this research is to examine the acceptance proc...

Although the construction industry, especially because of its relationship with other economic sectors, is one of the most important sectors that plays a key role in a country's economic growth, the construction supply chain has been considered less attention. Therefore, construction supply chain network design is of great importance for not only t...

This study has been provided with the purpose of identifying and ranking the stakeholders in ITSM processes in the banking sector. This research method is exploratory and in terms of data collection, it was descriptive. The statistical population of the present study includes IT experts who dominate the IT service management processes in the Bank i...

هدف این پژوهش، شناسایی ابعاد مختلف اثر‌گذار بر عملکرد کانال توزیع بنگاه‌های تولید‌کننده/وارد‌کننده محصولات تند گردش در ایران و ‌ارائه‌ی مدلی جهت تبیین عملکرد آن بوسیله‌ی این ابعاد شناسایی‌شده است. پس از استخراج مضامین مبتنی بر ادبیات موضوع، مصاحبه ی باز با 19 تن از خبرگان حوزه ی بازاریابی، فروش و لجستیک جهت تکمیل و تایید مضامین انجام گرفته است. پس...

In today's business, projects are considered as an important part of business operations. Thus, the success of projects has a direct impact on the success of the firm. Researchers and practitioners have been attempting to improve project performance by suggesting and implementing several project management methods and methodologies. The present res...

A B S T R A C T The development of information technology (IT) has had a considerable effect on organizational management and success. Due to the widespread use of IT, the risk of error increases, which can significantly affect organizations. In order to reduce the impact of these errors, organizational maturity and risk should be calculated. The a...

Considering the various variables affecting the relationship between information and communication technology and GDP growth and the interaction and non-linear effects of these variables on each other, it is necessary to provide a model to predict the favorable or unfavorable effects of ICT policies on GDP using simulation. The present study examin...

Nowadays, the tourism industry accounts for approximately 10% of the global GDP, while it only contributes 3% of the economy in Iran. Since the pressure of US sanctions increases day after day on the Iranian economy, the necessity of paying attention to this industry as a source of foreign currency is felt more than ever. The purpose of this resear...

Background: After the end of an emergency period and through setting up emergency settlement camps, humanitarian agents will take action to improve livelihood and health conditions of those suffering from the disaster through sending livelihood and health packages with standard contents and based on people’s requirements. However, the problem is th...

Considering the various variables affecting the relationship between information and communication technology and GDP growth and the interaction and non-linear effects of these variables on each other, it is necessary to provide a model to predict the favorable or unfavorable effects of ICT policies on GDP using simulation. The present study examin...

Aims: Understanding the factors that underpin the adoption of new healthcare electronic systems and services is of great importance. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to provide the model of acceptance of electronic health services by patients. Instruments & Methods: This descriptive-correlational study was conducted on 357 patients in Te...

This research aim to develop a model for measuring information technology business value in automobile production to clarify the findings of previous research in this regard. The research sample included an Iranian automobile producing company, which the process of supply, logistics, and production were selected as case of study. Given the research...

This research aim to develop a model for measuring information technology business value in automobile production to clarify the findings of previous research in this regard. The research sample included an Iranian automobile producing company, which the process of supply, logistics, and production were selected as case of study. Given the research...

One of the challenges facing supply chain management in Iran is the distribution system. In this regard, fast moving consumer goods are a group of commodities, which strongly require a coherent and efficient distribution mechanism. The purpose of this study was to propose a conceptual model to design a goods distribution channel for fast moving con...

This study is developed to highlight the role of meritocracy in the Information Technology sector of healthcare field. This is a qualitative research in which we have tried to identify the important indicators of senior, middle, and operational managers' competency at healthcare sector, besides importance of meritocracy in Information Technology se...

The restrictions of government resources and the recent alterations in the economy have prompted government agencies to employ the capacities of private sector in all infrastructures. In this regard, a variety of financing methods, including the participatory models, have been applied for many years in the water and wastewater industry of Iran. The...

Understanding organizational culture necessitates an appropriate model. Because of the deficiency of organizational culture consistent with Islamic values, indigenous culture, mission and tasks of the governorates in Iran, this research is intended to design an appropriate model for identifying and measuring the organizational culture of Kurdistan...

In recent years, due to the development of information and communication technology and the approval of upstream researches in the country, such as the road map of government of Iran, attention to the concept of e-government at a higher level and the rule of electronics have attained a special place. For this purpose, realization of the relevant ob...

The aim of this study is to formulate a supply chain with a buyer and multiple suppliers using bi-level programming approach. The main objective of the model is to select suppliers in order to optimally configure the supply chain network. The buyer plays the role of leader and the suppliers play the role of followers. While the resulting model is m...

When considering today’s uncertain atmosphere, many people and organizations believe that strategy has lost its meaning and position. When future is predictable, common approaches for strategic planning are applicable; nonetheless, vague circumstances require different methods. Accordingly, a new approach that is compatible with uncertainty and uns...

This study aimed at designing information technology business value model in order to explain the value of information technology in business and evaluate information technology contribution in organization function. For the purpose of a comprehensive analysis of the subject using qualitative data, the research method was set to be mixed method foc...

This study aimed to develop a scientific framework to identify and measure the IT business value. Focus on finding a basis for determining the value of IT in business and to measure the performance of IT in the organization. According to the nature of the subject that still remains in dispute despite multiple studies, the meta-synthesis method was...

As one of three prominent flows (material, money, information) in a supply chain, the information flow plays a key role in supply chain performance and also in reaching high degrees of integrity and cooperation between supply chain members. Regarding the vagueness and multi-dimensional nature of information sharing, evaluating the information shari...

Recognising the customers' behavioural patterns, clustering and providing services to them were assumed as one of the most important issues of banks. In this research, five specifications of customers included last referral time, number of transaction, deposit amount, loan amount and balance of loans deferred values during one year was extracted fr...

Despite its advantages, expansion of information and communication technologies (ICTs), have increasingly put citizens at the risk of violating their information privacy by governmental or non-governmental organizations. In this article, the legislations advocating information privacy in Iran and selected countries have been comparatively studied a...

This paper proposes two models to formulate a Supplier Selection Problem (SSP) in a single-buyer, multi-supplier two-echelon supply chain network. The model coordinates order allocation and supplier selection problems under all-unit quantity discount policy. In this way, bi-level programming is employed to obtain two models: 1) The model with buyer...

Selecting the appropriate IT outsourcing (ITO) strategy is important for firms in general and banking institutions in particular to achieve expected benefits, but it remains complex, risky and lengthy process for clients to select the appropriate ITO strategy. Previous academic efforts to support ITO decision incorporated a limited number of factor...

Social media plays an important role in rapid propagation of marketing. Identifying the important themes of Social media marketing is important for the community of scientific scholars and business professorial. Hence the purpose of this article is to answer the above demand by introducing a practical framework for SMM domain in academic literature...

One of the main problems attracted researchers' attentions in recent years is Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP). This paper tends to minimize the covered distance, total travelling time, number of vehicles, delay and transportation costs, and to maximize consumers' satisfaction by utilizing mathematical models. Distributors always tend to gain the maxi...

The most important aim of this study is to propose a model for protecting citizens’ information privacy in e-Government for developing countries. This study develops theoretical foundations and models of e-Government in judicial-legal dimension. The methodology of this study is qualitative including documentary study, content analysis and comparati...

Background/Objectives: In process of using technology to provide services, it would be required to have computable market value of technology and its provided services in order to compare them with other services. Methods/Statistical: The importance of this matter would be more in valuation of second type of technology-based companies providing the...

This article proposes a model to make an assessment of efficiency in Information Technology (IT) outsourcing in research centers through data envelopment analysis (DEA). In this research input and output variables of DEA model for assessment of IT outsourcing efficiency distinguished. The decision-making units (DMUs) include 36 research centers in...

This article provides a systematic review of 191 research articles published on the Information Technology (IT) continuance intention between 2001 and 2014. The IT continuance intention literature was analyzed based on a series of dimensions including year of publication, journal, country, author, research methods, type of respondents, the theories...

Excessive road traffic accidents are the cause of referrals of a large number of injured people to hospitals. However, shortage of resources does not allow caring for all of them at the same time. Therefore, injured individuals should be prioritised by a triage unit. Patients with serious life-threatening conditions should be sent as the first prio...

Synchronizing all activities between different tiers of supply chain is an important and influencing function in supply chain management. Information sharing is a critical means in this regard. Information sharing is not just a concept but could be considered as a computable construct which helps to improve supply chain performance. This paper revi...

Supply chain network (SCN) problem deals with selecting compatible and competent partners and description of materials, information and financial flow at different nodes in networks. Because of uncertain existence in supply chain networks, companies encounter risk in their business. The purpose of this paper is optimal designing of supply chain net...

expert systems can help to build banks customers' credit scoring models. Here, selection of key features of the credit scoring is important. Also, it is possible to express the features values as fuzzy. The problem is how to improve features selection by genetic algorithm, in way that these features can be employed as input in fuzzy expert system....