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Article Type: Original Research

Outsourcing in Railway Transportation Using the Data Enveloping Method

Subject Areas : Industrial Management

Mohammad Mehdi Movahedi 1 , Nima Saeedi 2

1 - Assistant professor and Faculty Member of Accounting and Management, Islamic Azad University, Firouzkouh branch, Firouzkouh, Iran
2 - Young Researchers and Elite club, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2016-06-02 Accepted : 2016-12-01 Published : 2016-12-10

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Abstract :

Due to the competitive condition of the private environment of the organizations, the newly arrived services providing companies have gained a huge growth. The issues of economic recession as well as the bankruptcy of different industries, the railway industry in particular, have forced the organizations to make themselves ready for the critical days trying to remove the economic barriers by their own. So, these organizations must be familiar with the methods and tricks of the change management. This measure must be performed in such a way to make them less vulnerable to the turbulences which happen and to help them for the better quality, higher productivity with less administrative an production costs. In this paper, it is aimed to introduce the outsourcing strategy as a tool for enhancing the organizational productivity and through combining it with the DEA to provide a tool for the railway transportation companies to select their required suppliers. If the process of outsourcing by using the external resources is performed based on the certain studies, it would lead to the reduction of production costs, quality improvement, employee satisfaction, employment growth and finally to the increase of organizational productivity. Therefore, through outsourcing and combining it with DEA and GP for selecting the supplier, the process of using this acquired efficiency tool would be available. 

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    2.
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    3.
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    4.
  4. Alam Tabriz. A., Saiedy, H., Deilami, M. S. (2011). Using Composed Approach Of Dea And Ahp For Efficiency Evaluation Faculties Of Shahid Beheshti University.
    5.
  5. Aubert, B.A., Patry, M., Rivard, S. (2002). Managing IT outsourcing risk: lessons learned. Springer.
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    46.

 

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