The Impact of Supply Chain Capabilities on Economic Development and Competitiveness in Developing Countries

Innovation in technology and customer requirements are constantly changing and it causes competitive environment to be became more complex. These changes lead organizations and countries to become more competitive. In this situation must compete or accept denying. In other hand, countries create growth path by developing of competitive capacitance. In this paper aspect of supply chain capability and competitiveness are identified and extracted and the impact of these components on the economic development of Iran has been investigated. Supply chain capabilities were extracted in 4 dimensions and 8 dimensions for competitiveness. According to limitation of experts to extract dimensions effect on the other is used DEMATEL technique. Findings and results research based on dimensions of supply chain capabilities have an effect on competitiveness and economic development of developing countries. “Network Integration” is evaluated as the most influencing factor and being influenced factor is “price”.