Identifying the Implementation Barriers of Strategic Management using Factor Analysis and TOPSIS Technique

This study, with the aim of ranking and improving the implementation barriers of strategic management in Petro-pars Company (PPC), enjoys key tools of the Multi-Criteria Decision Making. The result of indicators importance ranking using TOPSIS technique reveals that three indicators, including ineffective senior management team, conflict at organizational culture for resistance against implementation of strategic planning and lack of consensus among the organization leaders, are of the greatest importance as barriers. Indicators such as non-use of internal leaders knowing the necessities and how-ness of implement improvement and lack of support by senior managers have the less importance.