title: Analyzing the potential of a firm: an operations research approach
abstract: An approach to analyzing the potential of a firm, which is understood as the firm's ability to provide goods or (and) services to be supplied to a marketplace under restrictions imposed by a business environment in which the firm functions, is proposed. The approach is based on using linear inequalities and, generally, mixed variables in modelling this ability for a broad spectrum of industrial, transportation, agricultural, and other types of firms and allows one to formulate problems of analyzing the potential of a firm as linear programming problems or mixed programming problems with linear constraints. This approach generalizes a previous one which was proposed for a more narrow class of models, and allows one to effectively employ a widely available software for solving practical problems of the considered kind, especially for firms described by large scale models of mathematical programming
keyphrases: operations research OR linear inequalities linear programming mixed programming mathematical programming firm potential analysis industrial firms transportation firms agricultural firms large-scale models