Strategic alliance critical success factors in Iranian project based organizations

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1 Ph.D. Student. Department of Project Management and Construction, Art Faculty, Tarbiat Modares University

2 Assistant Prof, Department of Project Management and Construction, Art Faculty, Tarbiat Modares University

Abstract

In today's competitive environment, organizations are able to support the individual individually and simply by replenishing their resources to organize you for strategic use; And they have to partner with other companies and organizations. The purpose of this study is to succeed in the success of the strategic union in project organizations in Iran.
In this research, the key task of influencing the success of the strategic union in the organization of projects using the systematic review method; Identified and classified using descriptive analysis. Then, using a survey strategy and by distributing questionnaires among activists in the organization of political projects, these factors were caused and analyzed using the fuzzy Delphi technique by distributing 12 questionnaires among experts in this field.
The most effective factor used in the success of the strategic union is the existence of problem solving teams, which were classified in the source perspective group. The preference of this theory, as the most important theoretical support explaining the key factors of success in the strategic union of project production organizations can be the lack of transparency and confidence in the relations of industry actors and ineffectiveness.

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  • Receive Date: 27 December 2020
  • Revise Date: 12 January 2021
  • Accept Date: 24 February 2021

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