“…From the literature review and the findings of this paper, 183 decision attributes are identified for general industries. They are categorized into eight different aspects while evaluating the favourability of candidate SC alliances: (1) finance [6,7,[9][10][11]17] (2) human resource management [9,10,14,17] (3) industrial characteristics [7,9] (4) knowledge/technology acquiring and management [3,6-9,14,17] (5) marketing [6,[9][10][11]14,17] (6) organizational competitiveness [7,9,10,17] (7) product development, production, and logistics management [6][7][8][9]14,17,18] and (8) relationship building and coordination [3,4,[6][7][8][9][10]14,17,18]. Over 50% of the evaluation attributes are focused on two categories: ''relationship building and coordination'' and ''product development, production, and logistics management'', as shown in Table 3.…”