Performance Analysis and Sustainability Assessment of International Markets: Iran versus some other countries

Subject Areas : Financial Mathematics

Adeleh Eisazadeh Saravani ¹ ( Department of Management, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran )
Kambiz Shahroudi ² ( Department of Management, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran )
Alireza Amirteimoori ³ ( Department of Applied Mathematics, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran )
Mehrdad Goudarzvand Chegini ⁴ ( Department of Management, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran )

Received: 2021-08-21 Accepted : 2022-04-04 Published : 2023-07-01

Keywords: Performance of Iran, Performance in international markets, Economic and non-economic indicators Performance sustainability,

Abstract :

Evaluating the performance of countries in international markets and measuring how they utilize allocated resources provides a lucid picture of the state of business management in countries also assessing performance sustainability in international markets, is one of the important issues in predicting international trade. In international markets knowledge of countries' performance leads to the recognition of their economic and non-economic management statuses even more it is used to allocate financial support of global organization. In the present article, an attempt was made to design a model capable of examining the performance of nations in international markets by both economic and non-economic dimensions in the presence of undesirable factors and two preparation and exploitation stages of existing platforms and also assessing the sustainability of countries' performance in the studied period which is quite innovative. Then, data from 21 countries, from 2010 to 2017 were evaluated to test the model. The results indicated that the model is capable of examining the performance of countries and assess the sustainability of the countries over a period of time. According to the results of this model, an attempt was made to evaluate Iran's performance status among homogeneous countries and provide a roadmap for enhancing Iran's performance

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