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		<journal-meta>
			<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id>
			<journal-title-group>
				<journal-title>Informatica</journal-title>
			</journal-title-group>
			<issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn>
			<issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn>
			<publisher>
				<publisher-name>VU</publisher-name>
			</publisher>
		</journal-meta>
		<article-meta>
			<article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">inf24407</article-id>
			<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/Informatica.2013.07</article-id>
			<article-categories>
				<subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
					<subject>Research article</subject>
				</subj-group>
			</article-categories>
			<title-group>
				<article-title>Application of Grey TOPSIS in Preference Ordering of Action Plans in Balanced Scorecard and Strategy Map</article-title>
			</title-group>
			<contrib-group>
				<contrib contrib-type="Author">
					<name>
						<surname>Sadeghi</surname>
						<given-names>Mohammadreza</given-names>
					</name>
					<email xlink:href="mailto:m.r.sadeghi61@gmail.com">m.r.sadeghi61@gmail.com</email>
					<email xlink:href="mailto:m.r.sadeghi@st.atu.ac.ir">m.r.sadeghi@st.atu.ac.ir</email>
					<xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/>
					<xref ref-type="corresp" rid="fn1">∗</xref>
				</contrib>
				<contrib contrib-type="Author">
					<name>
						<surname>Razavi</surname>
						<given-names>Seyed Hossein</given-names>
					</name>
					<email xlink:href="mailto:sh.razavi@st.atu.ac.ir">sh.razavi@st.atu.ac.ir</email>
					<xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/>
				</contrib>
				<contrib contrib-type="Author">
					<name>
						<surname>Saberi</surname>
						<given-names>Narges</given-names>
					</name>
					<email xlink:href="mailto:nasaberi@yahoo.com">nasaberi@yahoo.com</email>
					<xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001"/>
				</contrib>
				<aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Industrial Management Department, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran</aff>
				<aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001">Department of Industrial Engineering, Islamic Azad University of Ghazvin, Iran</aff>
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			<author-notes>
				<corresp id="fn1">
					<label>∗</label>Corresponding author.</corresp>
			</author-notes>
			<pub-date pub-type="epub">
				<day>01</day>
				<month>01</month>
				<year>2013</year>
			</pub-date>
			<volume>24</volume>
			<issue>4</issue>
			<fpage>619</fpage>
			<lpage>635</lpage>
			<history>
				<date date-type="received">
					<day>01</day>
					<month>03</month>
					<year>2011</year>
				</date>
				<date date-type="accepted">
					<day>01</day>
					<month>04</month>
					<year>2012</year>
				</date>
			</history>
			<abstract>
				<p>“Strategy implementation” is an inseparable part of strategic management process. Transformation strategies to typical operations and daily functions of staff exert a significant role in organization success. Balanced scorecard (BSC) and strategy map help senior managers to perfectly implement and monitor the accomplishment of the strategies by transforming strategies into operational programs. Using BSC and strategy map, the strategies are translated into some action plans which help the achievement of organizational goals and strategies. Due to shortage of resources, usually all organization's action plans cannot be implemented completely; therefore, managers should make use of some tools for assigning and selecting more efective action plans. In this paper, a procedure is suggested on the basis of grey TOPSIS to determine the preference of action plans to better aid managers in selection of the most effective action plans in a group decision making process.</p>
			</abstract>
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				<label>Keywords</label>
				<kwd>balanced scorecard</kwd>
				<kwd>strategy map</kwd>
				<kwd>TOPSIS</kwd>
				<kwd>grey theory</kwd>
			</kwd-group>
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