In a complex innovative project, an organisation is often not able to manage all aspects alone, due to the lack of all required competencies, skills or resources. Hence, alliance formation can be a solution. To decrease the risk of potential collaboration inefficiency, partner selection happens among firms before collaboration starts. This paper proposes hypotheses based on a systematic literature review. These hypotheses consider the needs of the project and allow to characterise partner selection using a new typology. Finally, a novel framework is proposed to help decision-makers of partner selection in alliance formation. Potentials for future studies are also developed.
This paper presents a sustainable multi objective routing and scheduling for maritime transportation considering ship variable speeds under uncertainty. The proposed model is aimed to satisfy three individual dimensions of sustainability including economic, environmental and social aspects simultaneously while it is finding the best routes and schedule for each ship. The first objective is placed to meet economic goal by minimizing shipping cost. The second objective goes to social respect of sustainability by maximizing job creation due to number of intransitive workers in ships and ports and, the third one is minimizing CO 2 emission to cover environmental target. Several test problems are applied to validate the proposed model and sensitivity analysis is used to demonstrate effects of model's parameters on objective function value. Augmented ɛ -constraint is implemented as a solution method to solve the multi-objective mathematical model. This is the first ship routing and scheduling paper which is considered three aspect of sustainability under uncertainty and solved by augmented ɛ -constraint. To solve the model in larger size, factual input data from a real case study is considered. Computational results show a significant positive managerial effects of this paper contributions.
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