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


Naser Azad and Yahy Rostamnya


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.


DOI: j.msl.2012.02.003

Keywords: Information technology ,Marketing planning ,AHP ,Multiple criteria decision making

How to cite this paper:

Azad, N & Rostamnya, Y. (2012). Ranking important factors on information technology in development free zone markets: An AHP implementation.Management Science Letters, 2(4), 1359-1364.


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