Article ID: | iaor20121540 |
Volume: | 136 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 102 |
End Page Number: | 109 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2012 |
Journal: | International Journal of Production Economics |
Authors: | Chang Cheng-Chang, Chen Ju-Long |
Keywords: | combinatorial optimization, investment, allocation: resources, heuristics |
Capital budget constrained foreign expansion model with multi‐site locations may have far‐reaching implications for the service sectors. This paper aims to present a foreign expansion model with multi‐site locations, which is capable of optimizing the commodity pricing and capital investment policy. Having found some properties of the model, we propose a solution method, which consists of the Newton–Raphson method and the technique of piecewise linear approximation. The results of proposed model may be beneficial for foreign expansion in services with regard to businesses like fast food, steak restaurant, café shops, and so on.