The worldwide competitive struggles in high-tech environment such as knowledge-based companies have featured the necessity to infer how competitive advantage is gained. Dynamic capabilities as the origin of competitive advantage emphasize the changing character of the environment and nature of future competition, acceleration in innovation growth, and the main role of strategic management in adaption, integration, and reconfiguration of organizational skills, resources, and working competences toward shifting environment. The recent inquiry is based on an interpretive paradigm and an inductive approach. The qualitative part of the research is conducted with exploratory purpose through grounded theory strategy. In quantitative part of study,

Innovation is considered the advantage cause for the nations in creating wealth and access to the development. Different countries have specific plans and policies to promote innovation. One of the strategies to develop high-technologies and innovation is the innovation networks approach. These networks work based on collaboration and learning. In recent decade, a considerable emphasis has been placed on learning self-organized innovation networks in different researches; nevertheless, despite such affirmation, a gap does exist for studying ways of improving and explaining the exact effects and its prerequisites. This research aims to study such gap(s) in innovation networks. Embedded case studies have been used as research methodology in t

The objective of this article was to propose a framework to explore the infrastructures required to implement digital banking as previous studies have merely sufficed to introducing its different aspects. Since digital banking is viewed as the future model of banking industry and many banks around the globe are investing in the development of their digital capabilities, designing and implementing a corresponding model can result in further adaptability of banks with emerging necessities of the banking industry. Thus, this article is an effort to identify the prerequisites and facilitators of digital banking through reviewing the current literature and incorporating the views of industry experts. It is a qualitative research with the use of

2 Department of Horticultural Science, Agriculture Faculty, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran. 3 Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Agriculture Faculty, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.

In the emphasis on knowledge as a key competitive factor in the global economy, corporations may be overlooking a major element–customer knowledge. Customer knowledge management (CKM) creates new knowledge sharing platforms and processes between companies and their customers. Customer education is one of the best ways of customer knowledge management. Despite companies’ growing interest for customer education and the recent awareness in marketing literature of this concept, research on customer education remains relatively scarce. In this research a model which details the relationships between customer education and customer satisfaction was proposed and validated for Nano food product. The existence of two mediating variables was unve

BACKGROUNDRecent studies examining the association between sleep duration and cardiovascular disease (CVD) showed inconsistent results. The aim of our study was to evaluate the association between self-reported night sleep duration and ischemic changes in electrocardiography (ECG).METHODSWe conducted this cross-sectional study on 3513 participants from Iranian middle-aged population as a part of Isfahan Healthy Heart Program (IHHP), Isfahan, Iran. Sleep duration was obtained by questioning participants. The frequency of electrocardiographic ischemic changes was calculated using ECG Minnesota coding system.RESULTSShort sleep duration was associated with increased frequency of electrocardiographic ischemic changes. In a fully adjusted multipl

Strategic planning and management is a three-stage process including design, execution, and control. In recent years, various models and instruments have been introduced to each of these stages. However, in today’s businesses context, in addition to internal and external factors, organizations’ success also depends on the engagement of other role players. The concept of business ecosystem is usually used in this regard. More precisely, nowadays, organizations are simultaneously influenced by their internal capabilities as well as the complicated interactions inside the ecosystem. As a result, their strategies should be designed in the light of both organizations’ internal/external environment and the business ecosystem. The present re

Research shows that there is currently a lack of a systematic way to identify strategic issues in organizations. While several factors have been reported to show significance or insignificance of a strategic issue, more research is still needed to understand how strategic decision-makers determine strategic issues faced by the organization and also how these issues are diagnosed. This becomes important as effective determination of strategic issues influences decision maker's agenda and priorities. Thus, this paper conducts 21 in-depth interviews with banking experts in Iran. Data analysis is done through grounded theory methodology. The findings of this study show that there are six groups of factors that affect issues to give the meaning

Identification of strategic issues assists organizations to pay attention to what is actually important in their long term decision making. The domain of strategic issue identification is broad, disperse and unclear. Since strategic issues are not predefined, the process of assigning the meaning to these issues and finding solutions for them is dynamic. Thus, the type of strategic issues faced by the organization, as well as how these issues are diagnosed and are formed influence which issues are included in the organization decision maker's agenda and which ones are ignored. The present research aims to take a step to fill the research gab in this context through representing a coherent picture of the subject matter literature on strategic

Nowadays, despite the economic and technological developments, business continuity process is discussed as a necessity in the organizations and management of this process is known as an essential part in all areas of business. So that an organization's ability to maintain and continue its vital and core activities after an accident, interruption and also the speed of recovery and return to normal state can be introduced as major factors in the success or failure of an organization. The issue of implementing business continuity management in high technology organizations, which sometimes have sensitive knowledge as well, is of particular importance, because on one hand, they are more exposed to risks of natural (earthquake, hurricane, volcan

This study aimed to investigate the perception of native speakers of Persian, Iranian EFL learners, and native speakers of English of how they would make refusals in different situations. In doing so, a discourse completion test (DCT) which was in the form of a questionnaire and introducing some natural situations was used and given to the participants of the study. The DCT consisted of three requests, three invitations, three suggestions, and three offers. Responses of English native speakers were considered as a base of speech act sets. The responses were compared with non-native speakers' responses to determine which semantic formulas and refusal strategies were used. In order to analyze the data of this study a chi-square test was used.

This paper investigates the impact of Word of Mouth (WOM) on Consumer Based Brand Equity (CBBE) creation. WOM characteristics such as, volume, valence, and source quality are studied to find how intensely they each affect brand awareness, perceived quality, and brand association. This investigation has been conducted in Tehran-Iran, on the cell-phone market. The methodology selected for this study was structural equation and all the calculations were done using Lisrel 8.54. The results suggested that volume and valence, two elements of WOM, affect CBBE and no significant relationship between source type and brand equity was seen.

The rapid proliferation of mobile phones along with the technological developmenthas created a whole new marketing medium named mobile advertising. This research investigates the influencing factors in creating positive attitude toward mobile advertising through a survey among Iranian mobile users. The results, conducted on 652 mobile phone users, showed that personalization, informativeness, irritation, credibility, entertainment, and also monetary benefit of mobile advertising are influential in developing positive attitude toward mobile advertising. Examining component variables of influencing factors, the study demonstrates ways of applying features creating positive attitude toward mobile advertising. Key words: Mobile advertisin

Recent economic studies consider economic growth as a prerequisite for progress in human society and meanwhile entrepreneurial approach to economy, especially in third world countries, will be terminated to economic development (Simpson et al. 2009). Nowadays entrepreneurial development is considered as the best way to leave recession and if firms can provide the highest degree of value for their costumer, they will both enjoy their own competitive advantage, position themselves in the market, and also among their target customers (Hill and Hultman, 2006). Based on Schumpeter (1960), entrepreneurship process includes innovation in creating new products/services, processes, market and strategy (Crane, 2010). So accordingly, this process is c

Background: of this study try to determine the Relationship between organizational culture & organizational Maturity of staffs in Isfahan Medical University Hospitals (IMUHs).Material and Methods: Three questioners (organizational culture, organizational Maturity) was used for accomplishment of this descriptive & Corelational research. The reliability of These questioners was assest with the cronbach alpha coefficient. this questioners were distribute between 360 employees of IMUHs. Data was analysed by SPSS software.Results: Funding showed that the organizational culture scores of 5 hospitals were average & 6 hospitals were lower than average. The level of organizational Maturity was average.Conclusion: There was a significant relationship

This research, as a national project, was fully supported by the Management and Planning Organisation (MPO) of Iran. Employees' social status has strong influences on employees' satisfaction and organisational performance. In spite of several research projects on employees' social status, very few studies have focused on employees' status in public and governmental organisations, especially with regard to different provinces across a country. The purpose of this study is to determine the elements and the effects of individual, organisational, and social factors on the employees' social status in Iranian public and governmental organisations. A conceptual model was developed and tested by Path Analysis Method using Lisrel software. In order