Abstract

The objective of present study is to analyze the possibility of developing an evaluation model of development for industrial clusters of Markazi Province. The present study is applied in objective and descriptive-mathematical in its methodology. The statistical population of present study consists of industrial clusters of Markazi Province. A questionnaire is used to collect the essential data. Due to limitedness of statistical population, the questionnaire is distributed among thirty reporters and experts. The measures of evaluation of different industrial clusters as presumed in numerous papers are extracted and then they are categorized through balanced scorecard method. Apaired-comparison questionnaire is used to compare the proper and present status of the intended industrial clusters through paired-comparison test. For final ranking of measures, Friedman test and SPSS Software are used. The final model is extracted through Dematel method and determination of associations among the measures of development of industrial clusters. The results show that there is a reverse association between proper and present conditions in finance, internal processes and learning but there is a relatively positive association among these two conditions regarding customer-orientation. Based on the developed conceptual model, one could say that learning, finance, internal processes and customers are the top four priorities for the industrial clusters of Markazi Province.

Keywords:

Balanced scorecard method, development, industrial clusters, markazi,

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