document: Analyzing the potential of a firm : an operations research approach An approach to analyzing the potential of a firm , which is understood as the firm 's ability to provide goods or -LRB- and -RRB- 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
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