Ranking important factors on information technology in development free zone markets: An AHP implementation

Abstract

Information technology (IT) plays a vital role on developing different markets. In this paper, we study the impact of IT on developing businesses located mainly on free zones or in the borders of countries using analytical hierarchy process. The proposed study of this paper gathered the relative importance of five important factors influencing IT implementation. There are 12 experts and we use pairwise comparison to gather their insight and using Expert Choice we implement AHP for ranking the factors. The results indicate that management is the most important factor, followed by cultural and social items. The other factors including technical, investment and organization items are in lower degree of importance.

Identification and ranking the factors influencing the performance of the incentive policies of free trade zones

“…There have been several studies on detecting barriers on development of free zones in the world. Azad and Rostamnya (2012a), for instance, studied the effect of information technology (IT) on development of businesses located mainly on free zones or in the borders of countries using analytical hierarchy process. The results of their survey have indicated that management was the most important factor, followed by cultural and social items.…”