RANKING ENTERPRISES IN TERMS OF COMPETENCES INSIDE REGIONAL PRODUCTION NETWORK

• Main Authors: Marko Mladineo, Ivica Veža
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Croatian Operational Research Society 2013-02-01
• Series: Croatian Operational Research Review
• Subjects: Production networks; Competence-cells; PROMETHEE
• Online Access: http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=143333

Today's economic crisis has led to bankruptcy of many successful, but usually large-sized enterprises. This brought into question the future of large-sized enterprises. However, the only alternative to largesized enterprises (LEs) is networking of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) into Regional Production Networks (RPNet). RPNet is non-hierarchical organizational form in which every SME is autonomous. Hence, every SME of production network is capable and wiling to be part of special cooperation inside network called Virtual Enterprise (VE). For each new product a new virtual enterprise is formed from different SMEs. The question is: which SMEs will be part of new virtual enterprise? If it is possible to evaluate SME's competences, it is also possible to rank SMEs. Ranking of SMEs according to technical, organizational and human competences is multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) problem. So, in this paper PROMETHEE method is selected to perform a ranking of SMEs.