Location Selection Criteria Research Articles

Retail Store Location Selection Problem with Multiple Analytical Hierarchy Process of Decision Making an Application in Turkey

Retailers are the most powerful actors of the distribution channels with proximity to consumers and potential to create market. Retail store site selection is a strategic decision, both in terms of customer satisfaction and profitability of the company to changing market conditions and intense competition. Retail site selection decision is a long-term investment. Long-term investment decisions are difficult and costly to change. Retail store site selection is a process that must be followed carefully in order to pass ahead of the competition. In this process, election-related data collection and scientific analysis, and decisions must be made in the light of these data. Therefore, in the process of taking decisions managers use scientific methods to provide significant benefits in decision making. Administrators must also consider the combination of several criteria in the selection of retail store location. This problem is complex and has multi-criteria decision-making structure. Such a decision can be modelled analytically.In this study, selection of retail store concept in the literature has been identified, the studies that has been dealt with the problem of the selection of retail store, were examined. A retail store location selection criteria was defined. Selection model was established with the AHP method. The study was applied in the Aygın Milk Inc. The aim of the study, for the managers of the company to decide to use both qualitative and quantitative approach. The goal is to choose the most appropriate location of retail stores in real business life.

Tertiary education: an investigation of location selection criteria and preferences by international students – The case of two Australian universities

This paper identifies and analyzes factors that influence international student selection of universities and the role that education marketing plays in the process. The research for the paper was inspired by work done by Canterbury on education marketing, published in the Journal of Marketing for Higher Education. The study empirically tests key constructs in service marketing. According to Canterbury it is time that higher education marketing theoreticians and practitioners alike looked beyond our similarities to other applications of service marketing to understand how some of our markets and our services might differ. To this end, the current study examines the views of international students undertaking their studies in two universities, one on the east coast and the other on the west coast of Australia. It reports the findings of international students’ choice factors in selecting an Australian university environment.

Identification of Location Selection Criteria for New Building Shipyards

The objective of this paper is to identify the location selection criteria of new building shipyards. The identified criteria for shipyard location selection assists consultants, managers, and investors to realize and to analyze various location factors during their evaluation process of shipyard site alternatives and making final shipyard location selection appropriate to desideratum.

Location Selection Criteria for the Sea Passenger Terminal in Relation to the Urban Structure of the Town

A typical Mediterranean town develops as a rule around itshistorical nucleus which may be longitudinally set parallel tothe coastline or concentrated in the area of a minor or majorpeninsula or located in a bay. These towns are usually characterizedby heavy build-up in the area of a wider town centre, insufficienttraffic network and insufficient number of parkingspaces, and finally a conflict between the urban structure andthe terminals which aspire at tending to occupy the same space.The work analyzes the potential criteria that need to be respectedin selecting the location of the sea terminal regarding itsfunctioning in relation to the town and urban traffic. The comparisonof certain indicators related to the maritime passengertraffic of eight bigger European ports of the Mediterranean, aswell as in four major Croatian sea passenger ports, has beenmade. The objective of the work is to define the possible criteriaof assessing the location of the passenger sea terminal and todevelop the assessment method for each of the criteria.