Authors : Sayed Ali Akbar Ahmadi, Mohammad Reza Daraei, Yashar Salamzadeh and Fatemeh Sharafi Farzad
Abstract: We have to remember that if we do not ride the globalization wave, we will find ourselves beneath it. Now-a-days, globalization plays an important role in the way service organizations act. All organizations should pay enough attention to this phenomena and it becomes more important when we talk about different ministries which have the responsibility of policy making in their field for a country. Ministries have limited resources and have to plan to allocate them in the most proper way. Here is the point which ignoring the globalization will result to great problems for all sub-organizations of these ministries and will impose great costs in national level. This study is the second part of a macro level research which studies four major ministries of Iran in order to recognize and rank the mentioned challenges. Here, researchers used factor analysis in order to categorize the found challenges which were exerted from the literature review and some interviews with experts. In the next step, researchers ranked the globalization challenges in four Iranian Ministries using fuzzy TOPSIS approach and all the remarkable results are presented in some tables in this study. At the end, present some practical implications for studied organizations and researchers show their possibility using fuzzy analysis on experts’ view and these results are presented in this study too. This research fills the gap between theoretical and empirical issues about globalization in Iran and makes policy makers aware about its practical challenges for public organizations.
Sayed Ali Akbar Ahmadi, Mohammad Reza Daraei, Yashar Salamzadeh and Fatemeh Sharafi Farzad, 2012. Globalization Wave in Four Major Iranian Ministries: Turning the Compass on to Save the Ship. International Business Management, 6: 634-639.