Facility location planning to mitigate strategic conflict in joint operations
Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing
ISSN: 2398-5364
Article publication date: 11 May 2023
Issue publication date: 9 August 2023
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to deal with a real-life strategic conflict in joint operations (JOs) for facility location decision and planning in an oil and gas field that stretches over two countries and tries to develop a basis for mitigating such conflict.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper develops a novel approach using integer linear programming (ILP) to determine optimal facility location considering technical, economic and environmental factors. Strategic decision-making in JOs is also influenced by business priorities of individual partner, sociopolitical issues and other covert factors. The cost-related quantitative factors are normalized using inverse normalization function as these are to be minimized, and qualitative factors that are multi-decision-making criteria are maximized, thus transforming both qualitative and quantitative factors as a single objective of maximization in ILP model.
Findings
The model identifies the most suitable facility location based on a wide range of factors that would provide maximum benefit in the long term, which will help decision-makers and managers.
Research limitations/implications
The model can be expanded incorporating other quantitative and qualitative factors such as tax incentives by the government, local bodies and government regulations.
Practical implications
The applicability of the model is not limited to JOs or oil/gas field, but is applicable to a wide range of sectors.
Originality/value
The model is transparent and based on rational and scientific basis, which would help in building consensus among the dissenting parties and aid in mitigating strategic conflict. Such type of model for mitigating strategic conflict has not been reported/used before.
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Acknowledgements
N.B. The author wishes to mention that the work is based on his three and half decades of work experience in industry, and relies heavily on his original ideas, concept and realism. Therefore, references to journals and books are limited to literature review, the rest of the contents are entirely original.
Citation
Chowdhury, S. (2023), "Facility location planning to mitigate strategic conflict in joint operations", Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing, Vol. 16 No. 3, pp. 593-617. https://doi.org/10.1108/JGOSS-08-2021-0057
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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