An interactive multiobjective programming model: The exploration of financing and capital structure alternatives in multinational companies

The article reports the results of an experience of construction and solution of a multiple objective model concerning the financing of multinational companies. Financing multinational companies involves a set of decisions in an extremely complex environment, in order to fulfill multiple and conflcting criteria. Aim of the model is to help the management to get to know the opportunities to reduce financing cost and to meet the desired structures of capital for the parent and the subsidiaries. An existing interactive weighted Tchebycheff algorithm has been implemented to solve the model with a computer. First part of the article relates to the model, second part reports the algorithm and the modifications to the algorithm.