Applying Sustainable Development to Economic Challenges of Small and Medium Enterprises after Implementation of Targeted Subsidies in Iran

Table 4

Decision matrix.

Criteria		Possibility to happen	Amount of risk	Possibility to control
Criteria’s weight		0.60	0.30	0.09
Choices	Lack of liquidity	6	5.92	5.62
	High production costs	7.23	6.92	6.31
	Reduced profit margins	6.31	5.92	6.46
	Low quality of national production	4.54	5.77	5.15
	Lack of innovation and creativity atmosphere	4.92	6.15	4.54
	Prolongation of profitability	5.15	6.31	5.54
	Lack of agility in operations	4.46	5.62	5.62
	Lack of the marketing mechanism	5.85	6.38	5.15
	Unfavorable business atmosphere	5.69	6.54	5.08
	Lack of information and knowledge	4.38	6.08	5.15
	Existence of insecure investment environment	6.15	6.46	6.15
	Inflation	7.15	6.23	6.62
	Economic downturn	5.62	5.77	6.38
	Price gap	6.38	6.08	6.15
	Growing instability	6.77	6.46	6.00
	Rising energy prices	6.23	5.92	6.31
	Unpredictability of economic variables	5.92	5.77	5.92
	Lack of local buyers	4.92	5.23	5.54
	Lack of implementation of the government’s commitment in the support package	6.23	5.69	6.69
	Lack of coordination between the financial institutions and the executive	5.77	5.92	6.00
	Existence of exclusive production firms	4.00	5.00	6.15
	Lack of cooperatives	4.62	5.00	5.92
	The lack of a systematic strategy	6.23	6.00	5.85
	Diversity policies	6.31	6.31	5.62
	Cumbersome rules	5.69	6.69	6.00
	Payment with high profit	5.46	6.31	5.85
	Dependence on foreign technology	5.08	6.15	6.00
	Lack of classified and frequent monitoring	6.69	6.92	6.46
	Political sanctions	7.00	7.08	6.62
	Exchange rate volatility	7.23	7.62	6.69
		7.23	7.62	6.69
		4.00	5.00	4.54