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Multi-criteria decision-making model for supporting manufacturing settlements location in Africa after COVID-19
International Journal of Engineering Business Management Pub Date : 2021-06-16 , DOI: 10.1177/18479790211023348
Stefania Bait 1 , Serena Marino Lauria 1 , Massimiliano M. Schiraldi 1
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The COVID-19 emergency is affecting manufacturing industries all over the world. Notably, it has generated several issues in the products’ supply and the global value chain in African countries. Besides this, Africa’s manufacturing value-added rate grew only 1.5 since 2018, and the foreign direct investment (FDI) from multinational enterprises (MNEs) remains very low due to high-risk factors. Most of these factors are linked to a non-optimized location selection that can adversely affect plant performance. For these reasons, supporting decision-makers in selecting the suitable country location in Africa is crucial, both for contributing to countries’ growth and companies’ performance. This research aims at presenting a comprehensive multi-criteria decision-making model (MCDM) to be used by MNEs to evaluate the best countries to develop new manufacturing settlements, highlighting the criteria that COVID-19 has impacted. Thus, it has affected countries’ performance, impacting the plant location selection choices. A combination of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) methods have also been used for comparative analysis. The criteria used in the proposed approach have been validated with a panel of MNEs experts.



中文翻译:

COVID-19后支持非洲制造定居点的多标准决策模型

COVID-19 紧急情况正在影响全世界的制造业。值得注意的是,它在非洲国家的产品供应和全球价值链中产生了几个问题。除此之外,非洲制造业增加值自2018年以来仅增长1.5,跨国企业(MNEs)的外国直接投资(FDI)由于高风险因素仍然很低。这些因素中的大多数都与可能对工厂性能产生不利影响的非优化位置选择有关。出于这些原因,支持决策者在非洲选择合适的国家/地区至关重要,这对于促进国家增长和公司业绩都是至关重要的。这项研究旨在提出一个综合的多标准决策模型 (MCDM),供跨国公司用来评估开发新制造业定居点的最佳国家,突出 COVID-19 影响的标准。因此,它影响了国家的绩效,影响了工厂选址的选择。层次分析法 (AHP) 和通过与理想解法相似的优先顺序技术 (TOPSIS) 方法的组合也已用于比较分析。拟议方法中使用的标准已经过跨国公司专家小组的验证。层次分析法 (AHP) 和通过与理想解法相似的优先顺序技术 (TOPSIS) 方法的组合也已用于比较分析。拟议方法中使用的标准已经过跨国公司专家小组的验证。层次分析法 (AHP) 和通过与理想解法相似的优先顺序技术 (TOPSIS) 方法的组合也已用于比较分析。拟议方法中使用的标准已经过跨国公司专家小组的验证。

更新日期:2021-06-17
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