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1 - The Role of Organizational Learning in Enhancement the Innovation Performance
ahmad mohammadi aliakbar aminbidokhti laleh jamshidi

Abstract Innovation to help organizations cope with the dynamic markets turbulence in the external environment and can achieve long-term goals. One of the most initiators of Innovation, learning. The main aim of this study is to examine the effect of the Organizational More

Abstract Innovation to help organizations cope with the dynamic markets turbulence in the external environment and can achieve long-term goals. One of the most initiators of Innovation, learning. The main aim of this study is to examine the effect of the Organizational Learning on innovation performance. Accordingly, the study population is all supervisors and employees of manufacturing and industrial Ab Band Mazandaran Company.The research design was descriptive and Correlation type and typically is based on structural equation modeling. For measuring variables two tools is used based on the Likert 5 options and the questionnaires were distributed among 220 supervisors and employees of Ab Band Mazandaran Company. Construct validity of both questionnaires were confirmed by a number of experts and management professionals and a confirmatory factor analysis. The results show that Organizational Learning has a positive effect on innovation performance and have a direct and significant role to increase the performance. Manuscript profile

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2 - A model for implementing changes in curriculum in higher education
mahboobeh khosravi mani arman

The purpose of this study was to identify the factors affecting the implementation of educational innovations in higher education has taken place in Iran .This research was applied and exploratory.. The study sample consisted of teachers training and curriculum area ( a More

The purpose of this study was to identify the factors affecting the implementation of educational innovations in higher education has taken place in Iran .This research was applied and exploratory.. The study sample consisted of teachers training and curriculum area ( as experts ), respectively. Based on the results of six categories of factors that affect the implementation of educational innovations have a direct impact on Iran's higher education system , including culture curriculum, the characteristics of acceptors innovation , innovation , the characteristics of policies of the macro environment, limiting factors and facilitating factors were identified . Manuscript profile

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3 - Examining the relationship between productivity characteristics of entrepreneurial managers and job performance
showbo abdolmaleki fakhrosadat nasiri siroos ghanbari

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality traits and job performance, productivity, entrepreneurial managers with different levels of education in their school in Sanandaj 2014-2015. The research method was descriptive correlational . More

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality traits and job performance, productivity, entrepreneurial managers with different levels of education in their school in Sanandaj 2014-2015. The research method was descriptive correlational . Also, productivity and job performance of managers is considered as the dependent variable . Personality questionnaire to collect data from the Iranian entrepreneurs , productivity and job performance Achyv Paterson was used. Reliability coefficient of the questionnaire using Cronbach's alpha coefficient , respectively, 0/83 and 0/86 and 0/82 is calculated and accepted . In order to analyze the data from the single-sample t test , Pearson correlation test , ANOVA and simple regression were used. The results showed that the character is too strong entrepreneurial managers . City managers have above-average productivity and job performance . All components except for ambiguity tolerance characteristics of entrepreneurial business executives have the ability to predict productivity . Also, all components of the entrepreneurial personality traits can predict job performance of managers . Manuscript profile

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4 - Testing the structural model of organizational culture, knowledge management process and organizational performance with mediating role of organizational innovation
سیاوش طالع پسند ahmad mohammadi

In this study we examined the role of organizational culture and knowledge management process in organizational performance, stressing organizational innovation as a mediating variable. Therefore, this study tries to improve organizational innovation and organizational More

In this study we examined the role of organizational culture and knowledge management process in organizational performance, stressing organizational innovation as a mediating variable. Therefore, this study tries to improve organizational innovation and organizational performance in universities, considering organizational culture and knowledge management process. A descriptive - correlational research method was used. The population of the study included faculty and nonacademic stuff of Sabzevar universities. Using a stratified random sampling method 252 people were selected for the purpose of the study. Research finding showed that the process of knowledge management and organizational culture have a positive and significant impact on organizational innovation and organizational innovation has a direct and positive impact organizational performance. Besides organizational innovation can have a mediating role between organizational culture and organizational performance. Organizational and also between knowledge management process and organizational performance. Furthermore, this study revealed the importance of knowledge management process and organizational culture in organizational innovation and also the importance of these three variables in improving organizational performance. Manuscript profile

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5 - Comparative – analytical investigating of Top US and Iran entrepreneurship centers performance
Mohammad Azizi

Albeit recently the numbers of entrepreneurship centers at the universities dramaticly have been increased, But alittle studies about this subject have done.This paper tries to compare, investigate and analyze the performance of Top entrepreneurship centers in the Unite More

Albeit recently the numbers of entrepreneurship centers at the universities dramaticly have been increased, But alittle studies about this subject have done.This paper tries to compare, investigate and analyze the performance of Top entrepreneurship centers in the United States and Tehran universities. This study looks at the performance of the Tehran universities entrepreneurship centers and then examines the differences between US entrepreneurship centers and Tehran ones. Top entrepreneurship centers are chosen from international benchmarking centers. Information from US entrepreneurship centers gathered via internet and E-mail contacts with directors and information from Tehran entrepreneurship centers collected via documents and interview with experts and managers. The findings indicate that US entrepreneurship centers have more outreach activities as education and teaching. US entrepreneurship centers also offer more comprehensive and intencive programs. But in contrast, entrepreneurship centers in Tehran universities just have more training and educational functions. Overall US entrepreneurship centers have more internal and external entrepreneurship activities like education, servivice and counseling for students in all levels(undergraduate, graduate, post graduate) and other external applicants. The findings of this research study will assist dicision and policy makers, students, faculty, staff, administrators, directors, researchers, and other stakeholders of entrepreneurship centers. Manuscript profile

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6 - The Effect of buyer–seller social capital on innovation performance by using customer knowledge development and commitment to innovation
abbasali rastegar Mahdi Dehghani Soltani hossein farsizadeh

The aim of this research is study and investigating The Effect of buyer–seller social capital on innovation performance through the mediating role of customer knowledge development and commitment to innovation. Statistical population included the marketing managers and More

The aim of this research is study and investigating The Effect of buyer–seller social capital on innovation performance through the mediating role of customer knowledge development and commitment to innovation. Statistical population included the marketing managers and research and development manager from the outstanding mineral-industrial export companies in global production networks that the number is 304 and the sample size was 262. In terms of purpose the present study is functional and the data collection method is descriptive. The Model has been investigated by structural equation modeling. The study's test results indicate that innovation performance is positively influenced by shared norms and trust through the mediation of customer knowledge development. Accordingly, innovation performance is also positively influenced by social interaction and shared norm through the mediation of the commitment to innovation. Manuscript profile

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7 - Examining the effect of knowledge integration capability on technological innovation and strategic performance:a case of pharmaceutical firms in Iran
nima mokhtarzadeh mahmood zamani Mohammad gashtasbi

This study addresses two objectives. First, it examines the effect of knowledge integration capability (KIC) on technological innovation capabilities (TIC), namely process innovation and product innovation, and firm’s strategic performance (SP). Second to investigate th More

This study addresses two objectives. First, it examines the effect of knowledge integration capability (KIC) on technological innovation capabilities (TIC), namely process innovation and product innovation, and firm’s strategic performance (SP). Second to investigate the mediating role of product innovation capability in process innovation capability- SP relationship. In terms of objective, the current research is applied. This study was conducted using descriptive – correlation methodology. Simple random sampling (SRS) method was employed to the selection of the samples. The study population consisted of all active pharmaceutical firms in Islamic Republic of Iran. The sample size was 86 pharmaceutical firms. Correlation analysis and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) technique were employed to test of the research model and hypotheses. Data analysis showed that knowledge integration capability has a direct and significant effect on technological innovation capabilities and firm’s strategic performance. Finding also revealed that product innovation capability significantly affects the relationship between process innovation capability and firm’s strategic performance. Manuscript profile

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8 - design and usage of the pattern for evaluating competence and performance of managers in higher education
حسین شفیعی naser shams

There are a several factors for determining the level of organization Success. Among that the performance of managers can play a significant rules to satisfy the customers of organization. Thus, evaluating the perfomance of managers must be used in essential goals every More

There are a several factors for determining the level of organization Success. Among that the performance of managers can play a significant rules to satisfy the customers of organization. Thus, evaluating the perfomance of managers must be used in essential goals every organization. In this article, we review kind of appraisal approach in the different aspects and discuss about one model that involve competence factors for evaluating. Then designing one questionnaire with considering goals of Technical University and collecting data wiht distribution questionnaire. Finally,we analyse and compare the results of this questionnaire and discuss about competence of managers. Manuscript profile

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9 - The effect of online social networks on home business innovation performance: The mediating role of innovation capacity
Morteza Akbari peyman dolatshah mojgan danesh

Nowadays, activity in online social networks has become inclusive, and these new tools have a high potential for the acquisition of business information and the needs of customers through collective intelligence; the use of this information can stimulate the creation of More

Nowadays, activity in online social networks has become inclusive, and these new tools have a high potential for the acquisition of business information and the needs of customers through collective intelligence; the use of this information can stimulate the creation of innovative products and processes in business. Also, the existence of high innovation capacity in business can facilitate the process of improving innovation performance. Therefore, in this research we have tried to examine the effect of using online social networks on improving the innovation performance of home business in Isfahan province and It will be clear how the innovation capacity of these businesses will affect this relationship. This study was conducted on 220 home-based businesses in Isfahan, and with available sampling were selected. uses a questionnaire for collecting data. The present research is an applied and descriptive analytical-survey method in terms of its purpose. For analyze the data structural equation modeling were used. The results showed that higher levels of online social networks could increase the likelihood of improving innovation performance. Also, innovation capacity can be a stimulus to use of online social networks and thus improve the innovation performance in the home business. Manuscript profile

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10 - The effect of knowledge accumulation capabilities and organizational size incremental and radical innovation performance
abbas ghavami Amir Najafi

This study aimed to determine the effect of different capacities, knowledge accumulation and the size of incremental and radical innovation performance (Case Study: Karafarin, Asia, Iran Insurance companies and social security organization) has been made. The research m More

This study aimed to determine the effect of different capacities, knowledge accumulation and the size of incremental and radical innovation performance (Case Study: Karafarin, Asia, Iran Insurance companies and social security organization) has been made. The research methods, descriptive (cross-sectional) and the aim of the research is applied and the type of field research among. The population of this research included all employees of Karafarin, Asia, Iran Insurance companies and social security organization a total of 224 persons. Morgan table was used to select the sample of the sample number to the number 224 with a reliability of 95 percent to 138, respectively. For sampling stratified random sampling was used. The results showed assumptions, knowledge production capacity within the organization, on the performance of incremental innovation, the capacity to absorb external knowledge, and radical innovation performance with variable adjustment of external knowledge absorption capacity through significant indirect effects. Also The absorption capacity of external knowledge on the performance of incremental innovation, radical innovation performance has a significant impact. The results showed that the size of the capacity of organizational knowledge, the capacity to absorb external knowledge, the incremental innovation and radical innovation performance has a significant impact Manuscript profile

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11 - Identification and assessment of HPWS practices in the Iranian Banking Industry
mehrdad estiri mahdi sharifi

This paper aims to identify and assess HPWS practices in the Iranian banking industry. This study used a combination of quantitative and qualitative data of this approach in banking industry's efforts to review and evaluate. In order to answer the study questions, this More

This paper aims to identify and assess HPWS practices in the Iranian banking industry. This study used a combination of quantitative and qualitative data of this approach in banking industry's efforts to review and evaluate. In order to answer the study questions, this study was conducted in two stages. In the first phase, Using Banking Human resource management expert’s opinions, HPWS practices in Iranian banking industry recognized. In the second phase, based on a quantitative survey, the impact of high performance work systems in the research case study (Mellat Bank) has been asses. The results show that the high performance work systems, includes: training, recruitment selection, performance-based pay, career development, performance appraisal, teamwork and decentralized decision-making, quality jobs and effective supervision. Indeed, other results revealed that the impact of these practices are classified in three areas: Ability, Motivation, and Opportunity to participate of employees. Manuscript profile

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12 - Effects of Network Structure, Knowledge Stock and Absorptive Capacity on Innovative Performance of Knowledge- Based Companies
Morteza Akbari saheb imani roya mahmoudi hoda abedi hadi toloasl

The innovative performance of companies has been studied quite extensively and for a long period of time. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of network structure, knowledge stock and absorptive capacity on innovative performance of Tehran knowledge- ba More

The innovative performance of companies has been studied quite extensively and for a long period of time. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of network structure, knowledge stock and absorptive capacity on innovative performance of Tehran knowledge- based companies. About 132 companies were selected as the sample in Tehran province, Iran. In order to collect data, standard questionnaires of innovative performance with 10 questions, absorption capacity with 8 questions, network structure with 4 questions, and knowledge stock were also used with 7 questions. In all items were measured using a five-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (totally disagree) to 5 (totally agree). Data collected through a questionnaire which its validity confirmed by experts and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM) software Smart- PLS 2.0. The results showed that the network structure, knowledge stock and absorptive capacity effect on performance knowledge-based companies. Also, the absorptive capacity have had partial and complete (perfect) mediating role on the relationship between knowledge stock with innovative performance and network structure with innovative performance. In addition, the absorptive capacity (0.48) has the largest and network structure has the lowest rank in explaining performance of innovative companies. Manuscript profile

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13 - Enhancing Innovative and Sale Performance through Customer Knowledge Management
Nasser Asgari

In the competitive and dynamic environments of current businesses, distribution corporations attempt to utilize permanent and new resources of competitive advantage in order to improve their innovative and sale performance. Among different determinants of innovative and More

In the competitive and dynamic environments of current businesses, distribution corporations attempt to utilize permanent and new resources of competitive advantage in order to improve their innovative and sale performance. Among different determinants of innovative and sale performance this paper is to investigate the effects of customer knowledge management. For this purpose the simultaneous effects of three dimensions of customer knowledge (knowledge for, about and from customer) on the criteria of sale performance and innovative performance have been investigated. The research method is descriptive and correlational. The population of the research consists of 900 sellers of Behpakhsh Corporation. A sample of 270 subjects was selected as statistical sampling. Data collection tool is a standard questionnaire that was used for the survey. Statistical tests such as confirmatory factor analysis, path analysis and t-test are used for data analysis through the software LISREL and SPSS. The results show that all studied aspects of customer knowledge have positive and significant effects on the performance of the corporation. As well as the current status of these variables in this corporation have been appropriate. Finally, according to research findings, some suggestions are presented for improving innovative and sale performance of distribution corporations. Manuscript profile

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14 - Survey the Impact of Information Technology, Knowledge Management, and Marketing capabilities on innovation ambidexterity and New Product Performance
iman hakimi

Linking the literature of resource-based view (RBV) with ambidexterity, the purpose of this study is to assess the effect of information technology, knowledge management and Marketing capabilities on innovation ambidexterity and its influence on the performance of new p More

Linking the literature of resource-based view (RBV) with ambidexterity, the purpose of this study is to assess the effect of information technology, knowledge management and Marketing capabilities on innovation ambidexterity and its influence on the performance of new product development of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) active in the Iranian medical and pharmaceutical industry. To this end, this paper develops an integrative research model, which analyzes the network of relations using covariance-based structural equation modeling on a data set of 294 SMEs present at the 21st International Exhibition of Medical and Pharmaceutical Equipment in Tehran in June 2018. Accordingly, the questionnaires were assigned to senior and middle managers whose primary responsibilities were related to strategic innovation activities of the firms. Findings show that the complementary capabilities of information technology, knowledge management and marketing are positively associated with innovation ambidexterity. In addition, innovation ambidexterity is found to strengthen the the performance of the new product development. Manuscript profile

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15 - The effects of entrepreneurial orientation and Dynamic Capabilities on firm performance with mediating role of innovation ambidexterity
saeid Jafari Nia

In order to gain competitive advantage and better performance, despite focusing on current requirements of customers firms should discover and meet the future demands. Therefore, ambidexterity should be considered as an essential factor in gaining competitive advantage. More

In order to gain competitive advantage and better performance, despite focusing on current requirements of customers firms should discover and meet the future demands. Therefore, ambidexterity should be considered as an essential factor in gaining competitive advantage. On the other hand, the combination of two factors of dynamic capabilities and entrepreneurial orientation can lead to innovation and, ultimately, better firm performance. Therefore, in the study, the effect of entrepreneurial orientation and dynamic capabilities on firm performance with mediating role of innovation ambidexterity was investigated. The present research is in the field of applied research in terms of purpose and it is a descriptive-survey research in terms of the nature and method of data collection. The statistical population of the research is production of protein products, canned meat and non-meat products in IRAN. The sampling method is unpredictable and available. 80 managers were analyzed as samples. Data analysis was performed using the structural equation method by Smart-PLS software. The results show that ambidexterity improves corporate performance. Also, the tendency to entrepreneurial orientation and dynamic capabilities has a significant effect on ambidexterity. But the role of ambidexterity mediation was not confirmed by the impact of dynamic capabilities on firm performance. The achievements of this research are suggested to managers. Finally, the results along with suggestions for future research are presented. Manuscript profile

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16 - To study the relationship between political connections, value-based management and performance efficiency: Theory of Political Economy Test
Hossien JannatMakan

The purpose of the present research is to study the effect of political connections on the value-based management and performance efficiency indicators. In this research, the indicators such as public companies and percentage of institutional ownership of affiliated com More

The purpose of the present research is to study the effect of political connections on the value-based management and performance efficiency indicators. In this research, the indicators such as public companies and percentage of institutional ownership of affiliated companies (quasi-public) were used to evaluate the political relations of the companies and to measure the performance efficiency of both indicators ( manpower and investment productivity). For this reason, the data related to the companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange were collected for a 10-year period during the years of 2008- 2017 for 113 companies and the regression modeling of combined data using ordinary least squares method and the dymamic combined data using the generalized method of moment (GMM) were used by the EVIEWS 9.5 software. The results of the research showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between the public companies and the value-based management ranking. The results also showed that there is a negative and significant relationship between the affiliated companies with institutional ownership and the value-based management ranking . There is also a positive and significant relationship between the public companies and the performance efficiency in both indicators (manpower and investment productivity) . In addition to the results, the hypothesis 2 about the relationship between the quasi-public companies and the performance efficiency shows a negative and significant relationship between the quasi-public companies and the manpower productivity and conversely a positive and significant relationship with the investment productivity. Manuscript profile

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17 - Investigating the effect of social capital on organizational performance with respect to Ambidextrous knowledge strategy and innovation; (Case Study: Innovative and Technological Companies)
Ramina Afrooz

Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of social capital on organizational performance. In this direction, the Ambidextrous knowledge strategy and innovation has been considered and the effect of market orientation has been considered as a mode More

Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of social capital on organizational performance. In this direction, the Ambidextrous knowledge strategy and innovation has been considered and the effect of market orientation has been considered as a moderator between organizational performance and the Ambidextrous knowledge strategy. This research has been applied in a descriptive-survey approach. In the initial research process, extensive literature review was used to extract the original model and finally, a questionnaire was used. Dimensions of the prepared questionnaire with different approaches to reliability and validity were evaluated and distributed through the census method at the International Intellectual exhibition and from 102 appropriate returns questionnaires were used for quantitative analysis. And by reviewing the research literature, the final conceptual model was drawn. Descriptive analysis was performed using SPSS software and Smart PLS software was used to test the research hypotheses. The results indicate that social capital has a positive and significant effect on the Ambidextrous knowledge strategy, the Ambidextrous knowledge strategy has a positive and significant effect on organizational performance, it strengthens the innovation of organizational performance, and the results of the research show that social capital on performance An organization is ineffective, and this hypothesis is not accepted, and there is a moderating effect between market orientation between organizational performance and Ambidextrous knowledge strategy. Manuscript profile

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18 - Identification of effective factors on crowdsourcing performance (Survey)
Hanieh Javadi Khasraghi

Web2 and the evolving vision of Web3 have a great effect on facilitation of information sharing, information aggregation, interoperability, user-centered design, collaboration on the World Wide Web, and crowd-centered services. New concept of Web is the intuition that d More

Web2 and the evolving vision of Web3 have a great effect on facilitation of information sharing, information aggregation, interoperability, user-centered design, collaboration on the World Wide Web, and crowd-centered services. New concept of Web is the intuition that drives crowdsourcing, crowd servicing, and crowd computing. Crowdsourcing has emerged as a new on-line distributed problem solving and production model in which crowds of networked people collaborate to complete tasks and processes through internet. Organizations are increasingly employing crowdsourcing to access scalable and cheap workforce on-line, and via this approach they could get tasks done in less time, with lower cost, and higher quality. Active and continuous participation of skilled and capable crowdworkes and provision of high quality solutions by them are key success factor of crowdsourcing in organizations. But by investigating crowdsourcing efforts in organizations it could be recognized that most of them don’t guarantee active and continuous participation of skilled and capable crowdworkers. As a result, a better understanding of crowdworkers’ behavior and identification of effective factors on their participation and performance could be very useful in efficient and effective design of crowdsourcing platforms and contests. There are limited studies on the identification of factors affecting the performance of crowdsourcing, and each of them focuses on a specific group of factors. This paper is a comprehensive study on researches and empirical studies that have been conducted to identify effective factors on crowdsourcing performance and a comparison between different studies will be conducted. Manuscript profile

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19 - The impact of technological innovation capabilities on innovation performance in Knowledge-Based Firms (Case Study: Science and Technology Park of Tehran University)
Mahdi Dehghani Soltani

The aim of this study is to evaluate The impact of technological innovation capabilities on innovation performance in Knowledge-Based Firms. The population in this study was manager and employee of Knowledge-Based Firms in Science and Technology Park of Tehran Universi More

The aim of this study is to evaluate The impact of technological innovation capabilities on innovation performance in Knowledge-Based Firms. The population in this study was manager and employee of Knowledge-Based Firms in Science and Technology Park of Tehran University and the sample size was 126 patients that to obtain this sample size random sampling method is used. The data collection tool in this study was a standard questionnaire and for reliability Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used. Present study is an applied research in terms of purpose and in terms of data collecting way it is considered as a descriptive survey. Structural equations modeling was used for examining of considered model. Finding in this paper show strategy planning, R&D, resource allocation, Marketing and learning capabilities can significantly improve the innovation. R&D and resource allocation capabilities can also significantly improve new product introduction. While Manufacturing and Organizing capability is not affect significantly on innovation performance in Knowledge-Based Firms in Science and Technology Park of Tehran University. Manuscript profile

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20 - The Ranking Lack of Success Factors of Electronic Commerce in Technical Infrastructure in Tile and Ceramic Factories in Meybod County
edehghani edehghani

The electronic commerce is considered as one of the strategies to maintain competitive advantage in the companies. To have a successful electronic commerce in each business, some requirements and infrastructures are needed in advance. "Technical infrastructure" is as th More

The electronic commerce is considered as one of the strategies to maintain competitive advantage in the companies. To have a successful electronic commerce in each business, some requirements and infrastructures are needed in advance. "Technical infrastructure" is as the most fundamental and most important infrastructure for electronic commerce. In this study, a comprehensive model is presented that introduces the effective factors on the success of electronic commerce in the technical infrastructure and shows that how by using importance-performance analysis model, it can be possible to identify the undesirable infrastructure factors that lead to unsuccessfulness of electronic commerce in each business and prioritize them for improvement and, technical infrastructure of electronic commerce and it’s capabilities which are necessary for successful implementation will be reviewed and technical infrastructure factor that cause failure of the e-commerce in the tile and ceramic industry of Maybod county, as one of the main centers of ceramic and tile production in the world and the biggest exporter of tiles in Iran, will be evaluated using the " analysis of importance- Performance" method. The results indicate that the internal infrastructure as well as the hardware and software available in theses firms, have acceptable condition and non-use of electronic payments, poor public infrastructure (Internet), lack of enough human force and undesirable capability of websites, are the main factors for failure of electronic commerce in term of technical infrastructure in these firms, respectively. [dm1] [dm1]بازنگری شود Manuscript profile

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21 - QoS Evaluation and Optimization for Mobile Telecommunication Networks Using Key Performance Indicators: A Case Study for Kerman City
Mihsen Sheikh-Hosseini

Proccess of quality of service (Qos) evaluation and optimization for mobile telecommunication networks is consisted of daily collection of key performance indicators (KPI) reports, determination and fixing of defects, and network testing to ensure the omission of the de More

Proccess of quality of service (Qos) evaluation and optimization for mobile telecommunication networks is consisted of daily collection of key performance indicators (KPI) reports, determination and fixing of defects, and network testing to ensure the omission of the defects. Drive test is common approach of testing which is time-consuming and expensive dut to necessity for expertists and equipment. To overcome these limitations, this paper proposes a new software-based testing method using OPTIMA software. Performace of this proposed methed together with drive test approach have been studied and evaluated for the 70 BTS sites of Kerman GSM network as the statistical society. The results demonstrate that the proposed method provides performance similar to that of drive test for measurement of defect fixing. However, this software method not only removes the dependency to expertists and equipment, but also reduces the testing time about one-third comparied to the drive test. Manuscript profile

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22 - Investigating the Effects of Hardware Parameters on Power Consumptions in SPMV Algorithms on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs)
Farshad Khunjush

Although Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SPMVs) algorithms are simple, they include important parts of Linear Algebra algorithms in Mathematics and Physics areas. As these algorithms can be run in parallel, Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) has been considered as on More

Although Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SPMVs) algorithms are simple, they include important parts of Linear Algebra algorithms in Mathematics and Physics areas. As these algorithms can be run in parallel, Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) has been considered as one of the best candidates to run these algorithms. In the recent years, power consumption has been considered as one of the metrics that should be taken into consideration in addition to performance. In spite of this importance, to the best of our knowledge, studies on power consumptions in SPMVs algorithms on GPUs are scarce. In this paper, we investigate the effects of hardware parameters on power consumptions in SPMV algorithms on GPUs. For this, we leverage the possibility of setting the GPU’s parameters to investigate the effects of these parameters on power consumptions. These configurations have been applied to different formats of Sparse Matrices, and the best parameters are selected for having the best performance per power metric. Therefore, as the results of this study the settings can be applied in running different Linear Algebra algorithms on GPUs to obtain the best performance per power. Manuscript profile

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23 - Investigating the Relationship between Knowledge Management and Innovation Performance among Employees of Company Members of Co-operatives of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare of Razan
davood ghasemi

The overall aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between knowledge management and organizational innovation and organizational performance among staff members of the Cooperative Co-operatives, Social Work and Social Welfare Co-operative in Razan. The re More

The overall aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between knowledge management and organizational innovation and organizational performance among staff members of the Cooperative Co-operatives, Social Work and Social Welfare Co-operative in Razan. The research method was descriptive correlation. The statistical population of the research includes all employees of the cooperative companies in the city of Razan, which is 320, the sample size was chosen using the Cochran formula, which is equal to 175 people, which we increased to 180 persons due to the drop of subjects, and eventually 176 people completed the questionnaires by random sampling. The data gathering tool was a knowledge management and organizational innovation questionnaire distributed among individuals. The data were analyzed using inferential statistics. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between the management dimensions of knowledge use and the firm's performance (0.213), with the increase in its use, the company's performance increases. In other words, 1.4% of the company's performance is affected by the use of knowledge. There are significant differences between the dimensions of the speed of the two variables, the speed of innovation and the amount of innovation with the performance of the company, so that with increasing speed of innovation and the amount of innovation, the company's performance increases. In other words, the company's performance is 2.1% and 1.17%, respectively, due to the speed of innovation and the amount of innovation Manuscript profile

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24 - The Effect of Flexibility and Integration of Information technology on Organization Performance, Considering the role of Organizational Innovation
maryam ahmadi

Today, companies are facing a very intense competition ,that results from technological changes and changes in the customers' demand. This situation leads to questioning the authenticity of the traditional management models. Companies should effectively overcome on con More

Today, companies are facing a very intense competition ,that results from technological changes and changes in the customers' demand. This situation leads to questioning the authenticity of the traditional management models. Companies should effectively overcome on continuous and unexpected changes and also for new challenges of customers at a low cost. Therefore, the ability to react quickly and effectively, a time – based competition and customer satisfaction, have been definitive characteristic competition. In fact, innovation is a necessity for survival against competitors, under variable environments for interaction and management of environmental challenges. In this regard, the purpose of this research is " the impact of the flexibility and integrity of information technology on the performance of the organization "have been due to the role of organizational innovation. The research method has been applied descriptive and survey method. The research community consists of employees and managers of Zamyad automotive manufacturing company, in a sample 249 people answered the standard questionnaire, with34 questions. For the assumptions, structural equation method has been used with the aid of Amos software. The results have shown that the role of organizational innovation in influencing the flexibility and integrity of information technology on organizational performance is positive and meaningfulness. Manuscript profile

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25 - Effect of using dill (Anethum graveolens) whole plant powder on performance of some blood parameters, and skeletal system of broilers
ali Reyan Mohasesi Hasan Darmani Koohi Reza Naseri Harsini Hamed Kioumarsi هوشنگ دهقان زاده

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To investigate the effects of the whole dill plant powder different levels on performance of some blood parameters and tibial characteristics of broilers, 200 one-day-old male chicks (Ross-308) were used in a completely randomized design with four treatments and five re More

To investigate the effects of the whole dill plant powder different levels on performance of some blood parameters and tibial characteristics of broilers, 200 one-day-old male chicks (Ross-308) were used in a completely randomized design with four treatments and five replicates (10 chicks per replicate). Chicks were randomly distributed among the experimental treatments including 0, 0.5, 0.1, and 0.2% levels of whole dill plant powder. In regards to feed intake and weight gain during the entire growing period, the treatments contained 1% and 2% of dill plant powder had the highest and the lowest feed intake, respectively, and treatments containing 0.5% dill powder and control group were in the middle of the first two treatments (P<0.05). In terms of feed conversion ratio, the only significant difference observed between treatments throughout the entire experimental period was a significant increase in the amount of feed conversion ratio in the chicks treated with 2% dill plant powder. Serum alkaline phosphatase concentration showed a significant increase in both assessing periods (21 and 42 days) for the 2% dill plant powder treatment compared to the other experimental treatments (P<0.05). Serum calcium and phosphorus concentrations were not affected by experimental diets. The weight, length, width, and ash percentage of the tibial bone did not show any significant difference between the experimental treatments. The results of this study showed that using 1% of dill plant powder in broiler chicken diets, while improving growth performance, did not have any adverse effect on skeletal growth and development of chickens. Manuscript profile

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26 - Effects of different levels of Ajowan Trachyspermum ammi as an alternative to antibiotics on growth performance carcass characteristics and some blood parameters of broiler chickens
ali Reyan Mohasesi Hasan Darmani Koohi Reza Naseri Harsini Hamed Kioumarsi

The purpose of this experiment was to evaluate the effects of different levels of powdered dried aerial parts of Ajowan (Trachyspermum ammi) seeds on the performance and carcass traits of broiler chicks. In this experiment one hundred and sixty one-day-old broiler chick More

The purpose of this experiment was to evaluate the effects of different levels of powdered dried aerial parts of Ajowan (Trachyspermum ammi) seeds on the performance and carcass traits of broiler chicks. In this experiment one hundred and sixty one-day-old broiler chicks (Ross 308) were used in a completely randomized design with 4 treatments and 4 replicates (with 10 birds each). The experimental treatments included: 1) control group (without additive2) basal diet + 0.2% Ajowan powder, 3) basal diet + 0.4% Ajowan powder, and 4) basal diet + 0.6% Ajowan powder. Results showed that the levels of 0.2 and 0.4 % had no significant effect on daily weight gain, food intake and feed efficiency. Except for carcass weight, Ajowan had no significant effect on carcass characteristics. For blood parameters, the effects of Ajowan, in most cases, were non-significant. In contrast, plasma LDL and cholesterol concentrations decreased significantly with increasing levels of Ajowan powder. According to the obtained results, based on maintaining the bird's performance at the same levels as the control group and on the other hand improving the pattern of blood lipid metabolites, it can be said that Ajowan can be a good alternative to the growth-promoting antibiotic to improve health and solve the environmental problems in this area. Manuscript profile

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27 - Analyzing the role of Mediating Intellectual Capital and Organizational Entrepreneurship in effect Human Resource Management on Organizational Performance (Case study)
peyman akbari kamran nazari

Purpose of this study is effect the role of Human resource management, intellectual capital and organizational entrepreneurship on organizational performance. The statistical population of this study is employees of Payame Noor University of Kermanshah Province.This stu More

Purpose of this study is effect the role of Human resource management, intellectual capital and organizational entrepreneurship on organizational performance. The statistical population of this study is employees of Payame Noor University of Kermanshah Province.This study is descriptive-survey type of correlation research. For data collection, the standard questionnaire was used. To review the validity of the questionnaires was used content validity (The questionnaire confirmed by a group of university professors) and on the other side of convergent validity (average variance of output (AVE)) this illustrates the fact that the validity of the questionnaires is suitable. Reliability of the questionnaires was calculated with The Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the questionnaires was examined (0.86, 0.80, 0.87 and 0.70) respectively. The results of testing hypotheses by SMART-PLS software (VERSION2) and using the t-test statistics and path coefficients (=), showed that a Human resource management has a strong, direct, and meaningful impact on intellectual capital But HRM has a strong, moderate, direct, indirect, and meaningful effect on organizational entrepreneurship and organizational performance,respectively, The results indicate that intellectual capital has a moderate, direct and significant impact on organizational entrepreneurship, Also, intellectual capital has a weak, direct, indirect and significant organizational effect on organizational performance, Finally, organizational entrepreneurship has a weak, direct and significant impact on organizational performance, As a result, the role of mediating intellectual capital and organizational entrepreneurship in the relationship of human resource management on organizational performance. Manuscript profile

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28 - From Market Defeat to Government DefeatMarket-inclined and Government-inclined Controversy in Modern Age
حجت کاظمی

From controversial view that has been flowing with regard to governmental interference and market freedom since three last centuries, two approaches can be identified: market-inclined and gvernment-inclined. This distinction is based on the weight that each approach ass More

From controversial view that has been flowing with regard to governmental interference and market freedom since three last centuries, two approaches can be identified: market-inclined and gvernment-inclined. This distinction is based on the weight that each approach assigns to one of these two institutions and its capacities for achievement of optimal economical efficiency. Controversy on this issue has a deep idealogic nature more than anything else and each approach tries to form historical evidence in their favors. In this paper, in addition to proposing the historical process of two approaches’ controversy and their internal varieties, we prove that in the shadow of achievements and failures of two approaches on one hand and proposing the alternative theoretical patterns and formation of developmental successful experience outside of conventional experiences that documented by two controversy parties on other hand, the grounds of the new pattern proposition of governmental interfernce extent have been provided since 1990 decade until now. The institution-inclined approach focusing on the topic of “quality” of interference instead of “quantity” of governmental interference is looking beyond the mentioned ideologic controversy and theorizing aboat the method and quality of positive governmental interaction with market institutions. Manuscript profile

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29 - Consequences and Implications of the Decline of Political Capital
Ali Karimi Maleh

The concept of political capital is a relatively new term in politics. This concept is the intersection of various disciplines so that political stability, social solidarity, and national integration in the vast, complex, and impersonal modern political systems depend o More

The concept of political capital is a relatively new term in politics. This concept is the intersection of various disciplines so that political stability, social solidarity, and national integration in the vast, complex, and impersonal modern political systems depend on it more than ever. However, despite its fundamental and practical importance, not much independent research has been conducted about it yet in the Persian language. From the perspective of the institutional approach, political capital is a socio-political construct, a contingent, contextual and time-laden phenomenon, whose decline has profound consequences for the political order and stability of societies. With this point in mind, the present article concentrates on this main question, what are the consequences and implications of the decline of political capital? The hypothesis is that the reduction of political capital has multifaceted consequences such as increasing the cost of political transactions, reducing civil participation, increasing corruption, increasing the government's interference, the prevalence of political anomie and disobedience, and the erosion of political legitimacy and its important implication is the necessity of serious changes in various fields of the polity. Inspired by the political institutionalism approach and with a descriptive-analytical method in the combined theoretical framework of Bourdieu and others, this article examines the conceptual dimensions of political capital and the consequences and implications of its decline. Manuscript profile

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30 - Investigation the relationship between implementation of innovation strategies and innovative performance, with absorptive capacity as a mediator variable, in companies located in Technology Park (Case Study: Pardis Technology Park)
razieh basiri abbas samadi rohollah sohrabi Mehdi Saeedi

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between implementation of innovation strategies and innovative performance, with absorptive capacity as a Mediator variable, in companies located in Pardis Technology Park. The population of the study includes Sen More

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between implementation of innovation strategies and innovative performance, with absorptive capacity as a Mediator variable, in companies located in Pardis Technology Park. The population of the study includes Senior Managers of the all 65 companies that are located in the pardis technology park. Using census, the entire population size considerd as sample size. Questionnaires were distributed randomly stratified. The criteria of Minbawa et al.'s research were used for individual absorption capacity, the criteria in Lichtenhaler's research were used for organizational absorption capacity, and the questionnaire in Hong et al.'s research was used for innovative performance. Validity and reliability for all questionnaires was confirmed. In order to analyze the data, software SPSS and Smart PLS were used. In analyzing the data, inferential statistical tests results and structural equation modeling is presented. The result of study indicates the meaningful effect of leading innovator strategy and also defender strategy on innovative performance and the meaningful effect Sinaof leading innovator strategy and also defender strategy and imitatore strategy on absorptive capacity. Absorptive capacity is a mediatore variable in relationship between using leading innoatore strategy and innovative performance and aslo it is a moderator variavle in relationship between using defender strategy and innovative performance Furthermore, Investigation of fitting indicators show that the model used in the study is acceptable fitness Manuscript profile

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31 - Performance Improvement of Hotel Industry through HPWS: Mediating Role of Learning Orientation, Employee Flexibility and Organizational Ambidexterity
iman hakimi

on organizational performance. Nevertheless, the neglect of the capacity of the mediating variables between this connection is still evident. So, the purpose of this study is to explore the mediating role of learning orientation, employee flexibility and organizational More

on organizational performance. Nevertheless, the neglect of the capacity of the mediating variables between this connection is still evident. So, the purpose of this study is to explore the mediating role of learning orientation, employee flexibility and organizational ambidexterity capabilities in the above relationship. The data were analyzed using standard questionnaires using PLS software. The results of a survey of CEO and HR managers of 66 three star hotels and higher in Tehran showed that HPWS with impact on learning orientation, human resource flexibility and organizational ambidexterity development, play a significant role in improving the performance of the studied companies in the hotel industry. In fact, it can be argued that constructs of organizational learning, human resource flexibility and organizational ambidexterity play a complete mediating role between HPWS and performance of the studied hotels. Manuscript profile

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32 - Structural Model Of Mediating role of Organizational Commitment in the Relationship between Organizational Agility and Organizational Intelligence with Organizational Performance
Shiva Habibzade behnaz mohajeran Alireza ghaleei Mohammad hasani

The present study investigated the mediating role of organizational commitment in the relationship between organizational agility and intelligence with organizational performance. It is a descriptive, correlative analysis using structural equation modeling. Four questio More

The present study investigated the mediating role of organizational commitment in the relationship between organizational agility and intelligence with organizational performance. It is a descriptive, correlative analysis using structural equation modeling. Four questionnaires on organizational commitment, organizational agility, organizational intelligence and organizational performance are also used to measure data. Cronbach’s alpha was used to measure reliability of questionnaires which were 0.87, 0.86, 0.93, and 0.86 ,respectively Validity of questionnaires was tested using confirmatory factor analysis. Population of the study includes all the staff of inWestern Branches of Jahad Daneshgahi in Iran. Using Cochran’s formula, a number of 206 samples were takes using single-hop clustering sampling. Data analysis was performed by structural equation modeling using AMOS 22: Results indicate that organizational intelligence and organizational agility had direct causal relationship with organizational performance. Moreover, mediated by organizational commitment, organizational intelligence and organizational agility showed to have indirect causal relationship with organizational performance. Therefor suggested that the managers of the ACECR’s units focus on establishing components of organizational intelligence and organizational agility endeavor to improve organizational performance more than before Manuscript profile

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33 - Network RAM Based Process Migration for HPC Clusters
Hamid Sharifian msharifi msharifi

10.7508/jist.2013.01.006

Process migration is critical to dynamic balancing of workloads on cluster nodes in any high performance computing cluster to achieve high overall throughput and performance. Most existing process migration mechanisms are however unsuccessful in achieving this goal pr More

Process migration is critical to dynamic balancing of workloads on cluster nodes in any high performance computing cluster to achieve high overall throughput and performance. Most existing process migration mechanisms are however unsuccessful in achieving this goal proper because they either allow once-only migration of processes or have complex implementations of address space transfer that degrade process migration performance. We propose a new process migration mechanism for HPC clusters that allows multiple migrations of each process by using the network RAM feature of clusters to transfer the address spaces of processes upon their multiple migrations. We show experimentally that the superiority of our proposed mechanism in attaining higher performance compared to existing comparable mechanisms is due to effective management of residual data dependencies. Manuscript profile

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34 - Tracking Performance of Semi-Supervised Large Margin Classifiers in Automatic Modulation Classification
Hamidreza Hosseinzadeh Farbod Razzazi Afrooz Haghbin

10.7508/jist.2014.04.007

Automatic modulation classification (AMC) in detected signals is an intermediate step between signal detection and demodulation, and is also an essential task for an intelligent receiver in various civil and military applications. In this paper, we propose a semi-superv More

Automatic modulation classification (AMC) in detected signals is an intermediate step between signal detection and demodulation, and is also an essential task for an intelligent receiver in various civil and military applications. In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised Large margin AMC and evaluate it on tracking the received signal to noise ratio (SNR) changes to classify all forms of signals in a cognitive radio environment. To achieve this objective, two structures for self-training of large margin classifiers were developed in additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels with priori unknown SNR. A suitable combination of the higher order statistics and instantaneous characteristics of digital modulation are selected as effective features. Simulation results show that adding unlabeled input samples to the training set, improve the tracking capacity of the presented system to robust against environmental SNR changes. Manuscript profile

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35 - Statistical Analysis of Different Traffic Types Effect on QoS of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Mahmood Mollaei Gharehajlu Saadan Zokaei Yousef Darmani

10.7508/jist.2015.01.002

IEEE 802.11 based wireless ad hoc networks are highly appealing owing to their needless of infrastructures, ease and quick deployment and high availability. Vast variety of applications such as voice and video transmission over these types of networks need different net More

IEEE 802.11 based wireless ad hoc networks are highly appealing owing to their needless of infrastructures, ease and quick deployment and high availability. Vast variety of applications such as voice and video transmission over these types of networks need different network performances. In order to support quality of service for these applications, characterizing both packets arrival and available resources are essential. To address these issues we use Effective Bandwidth/Effective Capacity theory which expresses packet arrival and service model statistically. Effective Bandwidth asymptotically represents arrival traffic specifications using a single function. Also, Effective Capacity statistically describes service model of each node. Based on this theory, at first we modeled each node’s service as an ON/OFF process. Then a new closed form of Effective Capacity is proposed which is a simple function and is dependent on a few parameters of the network. Afterward the performance of different traffic patterns such as constant bit rate, Poisson and Markov Modulated Poisson process are statistically evaluated in the case of both single and aggregate traffic modes. Using the proposed model we will show that traffic pattern affects QoS parameters even if all models have the same average packet arrival rate. We prove the accuracy of our model by a series of simulations which are run using NS2 simulator. Manuscript profile

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36 - Investigating the Effect of Functional and Flexible Information Systems on Supply Chain Operation: Iran Automotive Industry
Abbas Zareian Iraj Mahdavi Hamed Fazlollahtabar

10.7508/jist.2017.19.005

This research studies the relationship between supply chain and information system strategies, their effects on supply chain operation and functionality of an enterprise. Our research encompasses other ones because it uses a harmonic structure between information syst More

This research studies the relationship between supply chain and information system strategies, their effects on supply chain operation and functionality of an enterprise. Our research encompasses other ones because it uses a harmonic structure between information systems and supply chain strategies in order to improve supply chain functionality. The previous research focused on effects of information systems on modification of the relationship between supply chain strategies and supply chain function. We decide to evaluate direct effects of information systems on supply chain strategies. In this research, we show that information systems strategy to improve the relationship between supply chain and supply chain strategies will be. Therefore, it can be said that creating Alignment between informational system strategy and supply chain strategies finally result in improvement of supply chain functionality and company’s operation. Manuscript profile

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37 - The Influence of ERP Usage on Organizational Learning: An Empirical Investigation
Faisal Aburub

10.7508/jist.2018.03.004

A number of different hotels have been seen to direct significant investment towards Enterprise Recourse Planning (ERP) systems with the aim of securing sound levels of organizational learning. As a strategic instrument, organizational learning has been recommended in t More

A number of different hotels have been seen to direct significant investment towards Enterprise Recourse Planning (ERP) systems with the aim of securing sound levels of organizational learning. As a strategic instrument, organizational learning has been recommended in the modern management arena as potentially able to achieve a competitive edge and as stabilizing the success of businesses. Learning, as an aim, is not only able to improve the skillset and knowledge of employees, but also achieving organizational growth and development, whilst also helping to build a dynamic learning organization. Organizational learning is especially important in modern-day firms, when staff might choose to leave or change their role owing to the view that knowledge-sharing could be detrimental to their own success. The present work seeks to examine the impact of ERP usage on organizational learning. A new research model has been presented, this model has been empirically investigated in the Jordanian hotel industry. 350 questionnaires were distributed across a total of 350 hotels. 317 questionnaires were returned. Structural equation modeling (AMOS 18) was used to analyze the data. The findings from the empirical findings emphasize that ERP usage has significant impact on organizational learning. In line with the study findings, various aspects of organizational learning, such as continuous learning, system perspective, openness and experimentation and transfer and integration are recognized as able to best encourage the use of ERP. Suggestions for future work and discussion on research limitations are also discussed. Manuscript profile

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38 - Cooperative Game Approach for Mobile Primary User Localization Based on Compressive Sensing in Multi-antenna Cognitive Sensor Networks
Maryam Najimi

10.7508/jist.2019.02.005

In this paper, the problem of joint energy efficient spectrum sensing and determining the mobile primary user location is proposed based on compressive sensing in cognitive sensor networks. By utilizing compressive sensing, the ratio of measurements for the sensing node More

In this paper, the problem of joint energy efficient spectrum sensing and determining the mobile primary user location is proposed based on compressive sensing in cognitive sensor networks. By utilizing compressive sensing, the ratio of measurements for the sensing nodes are considerably reduced. Therefore, energy consumption is improved significantly in spectrum sensing. The multi-antenna sensors is also considered to save more energy. On the other hand, multi-antenna sensor utilization is a proper solution instead of applying more sensors. The problem is formulated to maximize the network lifetime and find the mobile primary user position by sensors selection under the detection performance and accuracy of localization constraints. For this purpose, a cooperative game is proposed to study this problem. It is shown that with the proposed game, the network lifetime is maximized while the proper sensors which participate in spectrum sensing and primary user localization are determined. Simulation results show that the network lifetime is improved while the detection performance constraint is satisfied and the location of the primary user is determined with high accuracy. Manuscript profile

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39 - A New Non-Gaussian Performance Evaluation Method in Uncompensated Coherent Optical Transmission Systems
Seyed Sadra Kashef paeez azmi

10.7508/jist.2019.03.001

In this paper, the statistical distribution of the received quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) signal components is analyzed after propagation in a dispersion uncompensated coherent optical fiber link. Two Gaussian tests, the Anderson-Darling and the Jarque-Bera have More

In this paper, the statistical distribution of the received quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) signal components is analyzed after propagation in a dispersion uncompensated coherent optical fiber link. Two Gaussian tests, the Anderson-Darling and the Jarque-Bera have been used to measure the distance from the Gaussian distribution. By increasing the launch power, the received signal distribution starts to deviate from Gaussian. This deviation can have significant effects in system performance evaluation. The use of the Johnson s_U distribution is proposed for the performance evaluation of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing in an uncompensated coherent optical system. Here, the Johnson s_U is extended to predict the performance of multi-subcarrier and also single carrier systems with M-QAM signals. In particular, symbol error rate is derived based on the Johnson s_U distribution and performance estimations are verified through accurate Monte-Carlo simulations based on the split-step Fourier method. In addition, a new formulation for the calculation of signal to noise ratio is presented, which is more accurate than those proposed in the literature. In the linear region, the Johnson based estimations are the same as Gaussian; however, in the nonlinear region, Johnson s_U distribution power prediction is more accurate than the one obtained using the Gaussian approximation, which is verified by the numerical results. Manuscript profile

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40 - An Autonomic Software Defined Network (SDN) Architecture With Performance Improvement Considering
Alireza shirmarz Ali Ghaffari

10.29252/jist.8.30.121

SDN makes the network programmable, agile, and flexible with data and control traffic separating. This architecture consists of three layers which are application, control and data. The aim of our research is concentrated on the control layer to improve the performance More

SDN makes the network programmable, agile, and flexible with data and control traffic separating. This architecture consists of three layers which are application, control and data. The aim of our research is concentrated on the control layer to improve the performance of the network in an autonomic manner. In the first step, we have categorized the performance improvement researches based on network performance improvement solutions proposed in the recent papers. This performance improvement solution clustering is one of our contributions to our paper. The significant contribution in this paper is a novel autonomic SDN-based architecture to ameliorate the performance metrics including blocking probability (BP), delay, jitter, packet loss rate (PLR), and path utilization. Our SDN-based autonomic system consists of three layers (data, autonomic control, and Route learning) to separate the traffics based on deep neural networks (DNN) and to route the flows with the greedy algorithm. The autonomic SDN-based architecture which has proposed in this paper makes better network performance metrics dynamically. Our proposed autonomic architecture will be developed in the POX controller which has developed by python. Mininet is used for simulation and the results are compared with the commonly used SDN named pure SDN in this article. The simulation results show that our structure works better in a full-mesh topology and improves the performance metrics simultaneously. The average performance is improved by about %2.5 in comparison with pure SDN architecture based on the Area Under Curve (AUC) of network performance. Manuscript profile

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41 - Reliability Analysis of the Sum-Product Decoding Algorithm for the PSK Modulation Scheme
Hadi Khodaei Jooshin Mahdi Nangir

10.29252/jist.8.31.167

Iteratively decoding and reconstruction of encoded data has been considered in recent decades. Most of these iterative schemes are based on graphical codes. Messages are passed through space graphs to reach a reliable belief of the original data. This paper presents a p More

Iteratively decoding and reconstruction of encoded data has been considered in recent decades. Most of these iterative schemes are based on graphical codes. Messages are passed through space graphs to reach a reliable belief of the original data. This paper presents a performance analysis of the Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) code design method which approach the capacity of the Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) model for communication channels. We investigate the reliability of the system under Phase Shift Keying (PSK) modulation. We study the effects and advantages of variation in the codeword length, the rate of parity-check matrix of the LDPC codes, and the number of iterations in the Sum-Product Algorithm (SPA). By employing an LDPC encoder prior to the PSK modulation block and the SPA in the decoding part, the Bit Error Rate (BER) performance of the PSK modulation system can improve significantly. The BER performance improvement of a point-to-point communication system is measured in different cases. Our analysis is capable for applying any other iterative message-passing algorithm. The code design process of the communication systems and parameter selection of the encoding and decoding algorithms are accomplished by considering hardware limitations in a communication system. Our results help to design and select paramours efficiently. Manuscript profile

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42 - Jurisprudential and Legal Study of Provisos after Cancellation
Seyed Mohammad Hadi Saei Maryam Saqafi

Cancellation is reached when both parties have consent over the termination of the contract. This means the end of the contract effects and the resulting commitments. This, however, relates to the future; therefore, it is not like nullification of the contract. It does More

Cancellation is reached when both parties have consent over the termination of the contract. This means the end of the contract effects and the resulting commitments. This, however, relates to the future; therefore, it is not like nullification of the contract. It does not have retrospective impact, and consequently it does not affect the pre-cancellation consequences. This point has been neglected by some and in their explanation of rules regarding provisos after cancellation they maintain that all conditions are nullified including attributes, performance and collateral events. Pursuant to this, the Civil Code in Article 246 stipulates that when a contract is terminated by mutual consent, its terms become null and void, whereas rules regarding and effects of each proviso are different and Article 246 shall not be attributable to all of them. This means that the condition of attribute is not within the prerogative of the said article and hence it is not nullified, but also it returns to the initial owner according to the subject of transaction. The condition of collateral events, due to its certain characteristics, is realized immediately after the conclusion of the contract, thus it cannot be nullified or waived either. In the meantime, only the condition of performance, either negative or positive, is nullified due to cancellation although it leaves behind consequences that are analyzable. Manuscript profile

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43 - Reliability Analysis of the Joint LDPC Decoding Algorithms over the Multiple Access Channels
Mahdi Nangir

10.52547/jist.9.36.33

The joint Low Density Parity-Check (LDPC) decoding schemes iteratively decode the received data from multiple channels. Mostly, the available data in different channels are correlated and there is kind of dependency between the links or channels. In recent decades, the More

The joint Low Density Parity-Check (LDPC) decoding schemes iteratively decode the received data from multiple channels. Mostly, the available data in different channels are correlated and there is kind of dependency between the links or channels. In recent decades, the graph-based codes have been considered for the communication network scenarios. The performance of these codes is close to the existing theoretical bounds and their complexity is not high which cause the possibility of real world implementation and exploitation. The Multiple Access Channel (MAC) scenario with multiple senders which aim to send correlated data to a single receiver is considered. An analysis on the reliability of the Bit Error Rate (BER) performance of the Joint Sum-Product (JSP) decoding algorithm is presented for a two-link case, which can be extended to higher number of links. The effect of parameter variations on the BER performance is studied. These parameters include: the total number of iterations, the codeword length, the total number of rounds, and the coding rate in the JSP algorithm. An optimal value of the parameters is selected during the design procedure of a communication network by considering its limitations and complexity criterion. The JSP algorithm is a reliable scheme for jointly decoding of noisy binary data from different origins. Manuscript profile

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44 - High Performance Computing Nessecities Requirements of future generations and research directions
ehsan arianyan MohammadMahdi Esnaashari Fatemeh Ehsani Boshla Shaghayeghsadat Hossieni bayan Masoud Dehyadegari Behnam Samadi

Nowadays, increasing the processing power of supercomputers is a worldwide race. This race, signifies the importance of supercomputers in the current era. They are engines of improving technology in almost all scientific areas, such as computational biology, earth scien More

Nowadays, increasing the processing power of supercomputers is a worldwide race. This race, signifies the importance of supercomputers in the current era. They are engines of improving technology in almost all scientific areas, such as computational biology, earth sciences, cosmology, fluid dynamics, and plasma modeling, to name a few. Next generation of supercomputers can be divided into two broad categories: 1) emerging technologies such as neuromorphic and quantum computing and 2) Exascala computing. Emerging technologies will be the future of supercomputing, however, not in a very recent future. Therefore, in this paper, we have focused on Exascale computing, and have tried to provide a comprehensive overview of the main requirements for this technology to be achieved and become available. Requirements have been overviewed from different aspects; hardware, software, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing. In addition, we have attempted to provide a complete taxonomy of hot research topics within this area. Manuscript profile

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45 - An ICT Performance Evaluation Model based on Meta-Synthesis Approach
Khatrehe Bamary Mohammad Reza Behboudi Tayebeh Abbasnjad

10.52547/jist.16445.10.39.229

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is one of the key determinants for today’s organizational success. Therefore, companies spend a significant amount of money each year on ICT, while not being sure that they will get a good result. The purpose of this study More

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is one of the key determinants for today’s organizational success. Therefore, companies spend a significant amount of money each year on ICT, while not being sure that they will get a good result. The purpose of this study is to identify the dimensions and indicators of ICT performance evaluation and suggesting a model for assessing it in organizations. This research is mainly a qualitative study with a meta-synthesis approach which uses the seven-stage qualitative method of Sandelowski and Barroso to systematically review the literature to find sub-indices (codes), indices (themes) and dimensions (categories) of ICT performance evaluation. The search of scientific databases with appropriate keywords found 516 articles, among them, 89 articles were chosen finally and used for analysis. Moreover, a questionnaire has been designed and answered by ICT experts and managers to determine the importance of each of the indicators of the model. Based on data analysis, the proposed ICT performance evaluation model has three dimensions: strategic, quality, and sustainability. The strategic dimension includes indicators of organization strategy, IT strategy, and alignment. The quality dimension includes maturity, and performance indicators; and finally, the sustainability dimension includes environmental, economic, and social indicators. For each of these indicators detailed list of sub-indices (104), which are substantial for evaluation of ICT performance in organizations, were identified and explained. Manuscript profile

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46 - Ethical Components in the Structure of the Commercial Model between Iran and Russia
Beitollah Akbari Moghadam Alireza Keshavarz Ghasemi

In a turbulent world today, all countries are thinking of exporting their goods outside the domestic markets. Due to the rapid change in the business environment at the international level, it is important to examine factors affecting the export performance of enterpris More

In a turbulent world today, all countries are thinking of exporting their goods outside the domestic markets. Due to the rapid change in the business environment at the international level, it is important to examine factors affecting the export performance of enterprises. The present study has two parts. The first part involves a quantitative analysis using a quasi-gravity model. In the second part, based on the structural equation technique, the effect of individual and environmental factors on the export performance of the business enterprises has been investigated. Considering the fact that the number of exporting companies to Russia is limited in Qazvin and Tehran provinces, the sampling method (available) has been used and 39 questionnaires have been distributed among the main exporters. The research findings indicate that trade between Iran and Russia follows the Hakeshir-Oholian Relative Advantage Act, and the trade between the two countries for Iran is between industrial and non-industrial ones. In the qualitative analysis, the present study also concluded that factors such as the trust of Iranian exporters in the Russian importer's private sector and the existence of a reliable bank for currency transfers, as well as attention to other Russian regions (except Moscow) among other personal factors And the environment with the first to third ranks of the export performance of Iranian business firms. Manuscript profile

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47 - Assessing the Impact of Level of Social Responsibility Disclosure on Banks' Financial Performance with Emphasis on Ethics
Mohammad Saadatnia Farhad Dehdar Mohammad Reza Abdoli

Corporate Social Responsibility is a commitment beyond the legal and economic requirements in which the company addresses ethical issues and participates in economic development while improving the quality of the workforce on a broader scale, namely society and managing More

Corporate Social Responsibility is a commitment beyond the legal and economic requirements in which the company addresses ethical issues and participates in economic development while improving the quality of the workforce on a broader scale, namely society and managing its business process Banking with the social and environmental consequences of investing is one of the most sensitive enterprises in terms of social responsibility, which is looking for the ethical banking movement for social and economic development in a society. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of the level of disclosure of social responsibility on the financial performance of banks. For the purpose of this study, the data of 10 banks listed in Tehran Stock Exchange during the period 2011-2011 were analyzed using Eviews software. The findings show that the level of disclosure of social responsibility of banks has a positive and significant effect on EBITDA, as well as the level of disclosure of social responsibility of banks has a negative effect. And has a significant effect on the market value to book value (MTB) ratio. These results suggest the need for the central bank to establish standardized standards and the need for integrated reporting to disclose social responsibility in banks. Manuscript profile

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48 - Identification and Prioritization of performance evaluation indicators of knowledge-based companies
Bakhtiar Ostadi Masoud Sadri

The importance of knowledge-based companies in the economies of the countries and their role in GNP has increased in recent years, and many efforts have been made to develop a comprehensive and consistent indicators for evaluating these companies. The issue of performan More

The importance of knowledge-based companies in the economies of the countries and their role in GNP has increased in recent years, and many efforts have been made to develop a comprehensive and consistent indicators for evaluating these companies. The issue of performance evaluation of these companies is still new in Iran, and in the past, many studies have not been conducted on suitable examples of these companies. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to identify and categorize the most important and effective indicators in the performance of knowledge-based companies, in line with the industry conditions in Iran. Initial indicators are extracted from literature review, related documents and initial interviews with experts in this field. Then, final indicators are determined through designing and distributing questionnaires, structured interviews with experts and analyzing the results of received questionnaires. After validating the final indices, 22 indicators are verified and categorized into 5 groups, and finally, by computing the coefficients of variance (CV), the indexes are arranged from the most important to the least significant. Accordingly, the added value resulting from the technology used in the product, the level of education of the employees and the number of R & D staff are the most important, respectively. Due to the fact that these results are directly related to the experts in this field, it is expected that using the data of knowledgeable companies and implementation on one of the appropriate models of performance evaluation will result in meaningful result. Manuscript profile

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49 - Investigating the effect of corporate and performance variables on the choice of financing method and the interaction of financing method on these variables
Mohammadreza Pourebrahimi Alireza Daliri Ali Saghafi Hossein Abdoh tabrizi

Nowledge-based economy has a significant impact on increasing per capita production, social welfare, reducing inequality in income distribution, increasing job opportunities and improving the quality of the environment and improving the quality of products as the main c More

Nowledge-based economy has a significant impact on increasing per capita production, social welfare, reducing inequality in income distribution, increasing job opportunities and improving the quality of the environment and improving the quality of products as the main characteristics of sustainable development. In this regard, in the statement of the resistance economy, the Supreme Leader of the Knowledge-Based Economy has announced one of the main policies in order to achieve the goals of the resistance economy. In order to achieve a knowledge-based economy, attention and emphasis on the role of companies active in this field is necessary and undeniable. In order to develop these companies and make their role in economic processes more colorful, it is necessary to identify the variables affecting these companies and conduct the necessary studies in order to make appropriate decisions. One of the key elements in the development of knowledge-based companies is the issue of financial resources of these companies. Existence of an efficient financial system in knowledge-based companies can pave the way for the growth and development of these companies and advance their development plans with the least financial cost. In this research, using regression approach, the effect of corporate and performance variables on the choice of financing method is identified and also the interaction of financing method on these variables will be investig Manuscript profile

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50 - The Effect of Entrepreneurs’ Political Skills on the Performance of Companies in Food and Beverage Industry: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurship Orientation and Ethical Leadership
Maryam Tehrani yusef vakili mostafa mousavi

The purpose of the current paper is explaining the effect of entrepreneurs’ political skills on the performance of companies in food and Beverage industry, with the mediating role of entrepreneurship orientation and ethical leadership. The current research is a descript More

The purpose of the current paper is explaining the effect of entrepreneurs’ political skills on the performance of companies in food and Beverage industry, with the mediating role of entrepreneurship orientation and ethical leadership. The current research is a descriptive-developmental study in terms of its purpose and descriptive-correlational type in terms of collecting data. The statistical society of the research consisted of 154 companies in food and Beverage industry in Shams Abad town. In order to collecting data 4 standardized questionnaires in entrepreneurs’ political skills, entrepreneurship orientation, ethical leadership and company performance were taken. Data analyzing was done base on the Structural Equation Modelling method. The result showed that entrepreneurs’ political skills has a positive meaningful effect on entrepreneurship orientation and ethical leadership, also entrepreneurship orientation has a meaningful effect on the company performance. In the current research the mediating role of ethical leadership in the relationship between entrepreneurs’ political skills and company performance wasn’t confirmed. Therefore, the entrepreneurship orientations can be increased through reinforcing entrepreneurs’ political skills and finally the higher level of company performance will be occurred Manuscript profile

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51 - Evaluation of the Success of the Technology Transfer Process and Improve Its Perform ance by Using Importance Performance Analysis (IPA) In Samam Co
Seyed Davood MirHabibi Mostafa Mablaghi

10.7508/jstpi.2015.02.002

Organizations to survive and produce new productions in their surrounded environment need new technology. One of the ways to acquisition technology is transfer technology from other organization or countries. One of the most important problems which industries in develo More

Organizations to survive and produce new productions in their surrounded environment need new technology. One of the ways to acquisition technology is transfer technology from other organization or countries. One of the most important problems which industries in developing countries are wrestling with is non-effectiveness of transferred technology. The reason for this, is the failure to complete the phases of transfer of technology or lack of improvement in these phases. The technology transfer process has six interactive phases: the selection and acquisition, adaptation, assimilation, utilization, development and diffusion. In this study, field research and studies in the field of technology transfer process is investigated and influential factors in the technology transfer process are identified. With t student model, a significant relationship between these components are reviewed and confirmed. Then through collecting expert opinions, the success of the technology transfer process is evaluated and importance of the phases are specified by extending the classical analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method and They are compared with a success rate, And by IPA, both the importance and performance aspects were evaluated so by determining priorities for improvement and resource allocation, the technology transfer process hasbeen improved. Although this work can be viewed as a case study in Samam co. Manuscript profile

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52 - Introduce and Using the Approach of Positive Deviance in Identifying Potentials for Performance Improvement of the Tenants of Yazd Science and Technology Park
Mohammad Saleh Oliua Ali Haji Gholam Sayazdi Abbas Zareu Benadkoki Shahram Shokohi Daruosh Pourserahian

In Incubators of Science and Technology parks (STPs) manifold services are presented to develop tenant institutes. There are always a few tenants institutes perform distinctively and distinguished outcomes from others, despite of similarities of services to all of them. More

In Incubators of Science and Technology parks (STPs) manifold services are presented to develop tenant institutes. There are always a few tenants institutes perform distinctively and distinguished outcomes from others, despite of similarities of services to all of them. In this research, Positive Deviants (Problem Solving Technique identified in 1990) has been used to achieve the main factors of prosperity of such bold tenants and try in recognizing solutions for distributing them to others. This research has been done in Information and Communication Incubators of Yazd Science and Technology Park (YSTP). By four essential and methodological phases, “Define”, “Determine”, “Discover”, and “Design”, Implemented solutions and behaviors of prosperous tenants to overcome difficulties and enhance developments have been recognized. Besides, using the technique “House of Quality” some findings and solutions (by changes in key processes of YSTP) is suggested to generalize the research results to other tenants. Finally, some recommendations have been added to this study. Manuscript profile

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53 - Performance Evaluation of Iranian Science Parks Based on Presence of the Science Park in the Region
Fatemeh Ramezani Hassanali Aghajani Abdolhamid Safaei Ghadikalaei

Science parks (SPs) are organizations bringing research and industry. Their aim is to promote culture of innovation of their associated businesses and knowledge-based institution. Given the increasing number of SPs that are being set out both in highly industrialized as More

Science parks (SPs) are organizations bringing research and industry. Their aim is to promote culture of innovation of their associated businesses and knowledge-based institution. Given the increasing number of SPs that are being set out both in highly industrialized as well as developing countries, the problem of measuring the performance of science parks is becoming paramount both in practiontoners and academicians agenda. The present work is aimed at evaluating Iranian SPs that are members of IASP based on criteria the repercussion of the science park in the territory. Performance criteria that used are networking, convention and collaboration stipulated between science park lab’s and local firms, new products and processes adopted by local firms and developed by the collaboration with the science park, number of firms born by the collaboration with the science park within re-industrializations programmes of abandoned industrial areas, number of workers employed in firms originated from the collaboration with science park and number of environmental improvement carried out in collaboration with science park’s lab. In This study these criteria are localized based on Iranian SPs circumstances. FAHP is applied to determine the relative weights of the evaluation criteria and FTOPSIS is applied to rank the alternatives. Science parks’ rank order of performance in these criteria is as follows: Isfahan STP> Fars STP> Khorasan STP> University of Tehran STP> Arac STP> Persian Gulf STP> Pardis STP> East Azarbaijan STP> Yazd STP> Guilan STP> Kerman STP> Hamedan STP> Kermanshah STP. Manuscript profile

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54 - Achieving Performance Measurement Framework for Science and Technology Parks
Saeed Shadan

performance measurement system has a critical role in organizations, since the system can demonstrate how much an organization achieves its objectives and specifies the areas that need improvement and consequently managers can make necessary reformation programs to impr More

performance measurement system has a critical role in organizations, since the system can demonstrate how much an organization achieves its objectives and specifies the areas that need improvement and consequently managers can make necessary reformation programs to improve their organizational performance. Science and Technology Parks as structures which follow promotion and innovation locally as well as nationally are also deprived of a standardized method to measure their success or failure; a specific and formal performance measurement method that is based on a specific analyzing framework and able to evaluate the performance of Science and Technology Parks. Extracting science and technology parks’ characteristics and the performance measurement systems from literature, we offer a performance measurement framework contained six components including identity and legal structure of Park; main stakeholders’ expectations; expectations from stakeholders; managers’ commitment and proficiency; interactions with universities, research institutions and industries; and finally Park’s real mission and strategies. The latter is the reflection of other components producing performance measures. This framework can be utilized to evaluate the performance of Iran’s as well other Science and Technology Parks outside. Manuscript profile

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55 - A Performance Assessment Model for Business Intelligence by using Fuzzy Analysis
MohammadHosein Ronaghi Kamran Feyzi

Business intelligence (BI) is the tool used by enterprises to collect, manage and analyze structural and non-structural data and also information by taking advantage of modern information technology. It utilizes a substantial amount of collected data during the daily op More

Business intelligence (BI) is the tool used by enterprises to collect, manage and analyze structural and non-structural data and also information by taking advantage of modern information technology. It utilizes a substantial amount of collected data during the daily operational processes, and transforms the data into information and knowledge to avoid the supposition and ignorance of the enterprises. In the last decade, Business intelligence has evolved as one of the critical applications in organizations to provide useful insight, support decision-making, and drive organizational performance. However, to avoid the ineffective experiences during the deployment, it is important to clarify the impact factors of a BI system and find out a Suitable assessment method to evaluate the performance of BI systems. Evaluating the effectiveness of business intelligence systems is vital to our understanding of the value and efficacy of management actions and investments. This research is a descriptive survey. We construct an Assessment model to assess the performance of business intelligence systems based on the outcomes of previous researches. Furthermore, an expert questionnaire using fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was used to filter out useful performance indicators. The analytic hierarchy process is a structured technique for organizing and analyzing complex decisions. Finally, we analyze a real case by using the constructed assessment model for Business Intelligence systems. We choose an automotive parts manufacturer as a case. The survey sample population consisted of 66 randomly taken employees and managers of the case. The results indicate that the performance of Business Intelligence system in our case was suitable. Manuscript profile

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56 - The Effects of Technology Spillover Resulted from Foreign Direct Investment on the Industry Performance
Abolfazll Shahabadi Seyed Arash Valinia Zahra Ansari

According to many economists, since the multinational enterprises entering the host economy have relatively more modern technologies than domestic firms, developing countries can reduce their technological gap through FDI inflow channel. It should be noted that the tech More

According to many economists, since the multinational enterprises entering the host economy have relatively more modern technologies than domestic firms, developing countries can reduce their technological gap through FDI inflow channel. It should be noted that the technology spillover of foreign investors is a function of domestic capacity for absorbing these technological spillovers. Considering the determining role of industry sector in the world economy, the goal of present study is to investigate the spillover effects of foreign investment from technological perspective, on the performance of industry sector of Iran during 1995-2009 years, in form of development plans. The results of the study show that during the second development plan a considerable correlation did not exist among improving the human capital (as the absorption capacity criteria), absorbing the foreign investment, spillover effects, and the industry sector performance. While in the third development plan, the mentioned correlations were significant. The reasons for the above mentioned significant correlations are as follows: policy requirements of the third plan about improving the research and development in macro-level of the economy, passing new laws of protecting and spreading the foreign direct investment in 2002. It is worth noting that while the above mentioned correlations had improved during the fourth development plan compared to the second plan, it shows weaker performance in comparison with the third plan. As a result, it should be noted that the mentioned correlations in industry sector were not significant during 1995-2002 years. Manuscript profile

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57 - Linkage between knowledge management and performance appraisal; an effective human resource system
Saeed hosein Rafuati

Knowledge Management and Human Resources Management are two significant fields in Organization Management. Despite the vast literature available on each of them, their putting into practice is indeed challenging. On the one hand, Knowledge Management is considered as an More

Knowledge Management and Human Resources Management are two significant fields in Organization Management. Despite the vast literature available on each of them, their putting into practice is indeed challenging. On the one hand, Knowledge Management is considered as an additional work procedure in some organizations mainly due to the intangibility of the value which it adds to the system in the short run. On the other hand, in some other organizations, Human Resources Management is reduced to personnel management and handling the employees official tasks. Therefore its principles such as employees' performance appraisal, leading in most cases to the achievement of organizational goals, are exploited as a means for either encouraging or punishing the employees. This research aims at defining a framework, through studying the different aspects of Knowledge Management and Human Resources Management, in which these two fields interactively produce a combinatory system which helps them effectively flourish and brings about their overlapping so that they can compensate for each field's deficiencies. Manuscript profile

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58 - A Framework for Evaluating Information Technology Foresight Projects
Maryam Mohamedpour Fateme Saghafi

There is a large consensus among academics and practitioners that ICT investments should be carefully justified, measured and controlled. ICT investments have special characteristics such as; high risks, limited return of investment, large proportion of intangible/hidde More

There is a large consensus among academics and practitioners that ICT investments should be carefully justified, measured and controlled. ICT investments have special characteristics such as; high risks, limited return of investment, large proportion of intangible/hidden costs and benefits. These characteristics are highlighted for ICT foresight projects. There are many papers for evaluating ICT projects with BSC (Balanced Score Card), but there is no work for evaluating IT foresight projects. This paper presents a framework for using balance score card for evaluating IT foresight projects. The result should be beneficial for researchers, managers, decision makers and investors. Manuscript profile

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59 - A Criticize on Booklet of Research and Technology Performance Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes in 2005 & 2006
Sasan Sadraei Reza Behradi Yekta

In this paper, the report of research and technology performance evaluation of universities and research institutes in 2005 & 2006 which is prepared by Research Evaluation Office of Ministry of Science, Research and Technology and published in the booklet of Summery of More

In this paper, the report of research and technology performance evaluation of universities and research institutes in 2005 & 2006 which is prepared by Research Evaluation Office of Ministry of Science, Research and Technology and published in the booklet of Summery of Research and Technology Performance, has been criticized. In the mentioned report, research and technology performance of all universities and research institutes have been analyzed and compared with the five similar criteria, while each of the research institutes depending on their type and existence philosophy, has different mission and also different position in the chain of science to technology. This mission and position in the chain of science to technology should be considered in the performance evaluation and the criteria of performance evaluation should be redefined according to that. Manuscript profile

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60 - The Effect of Innovation Ambidexterity on Export Knowledge and Performance of new Products in Export Markets
Mostafa Ebrahim pour Azbary Milad Hoshmand Chayjani Mohsen Akbari

10.7508/jstpi.2015.02.006

Export is one of the most important economic activities in the success of firms that has attracted attention of researchers and strategists. This attention is because of the convenience in using this strategy in entering in other international markets and due to benefit More

Export is one of the most important economic activities in the success of firms that has attracted attention of researchers and strategists. This attention is because of the convenience in using this strategy in entering in other international markets and due to benefits of export in development firms. This has motivated firms to acquire export knowledge and train it in their companies in order to guarantee their successful performance in expert. Ambidexterity is an approach that can be effective in terms of creating export knowledge. Ambidexterity, (with two dimensions of exploitation and exploration) in export companies, helps organizations to use export knowledge more effectively and efficiently, in other words ambidexterity can help export companies acquire learning capabilities as a learning organization. As a result, this learning capability can lead to more proper new products in competition. This paper investigates the effect of innovation ambidexterity on export knowledge and new product performance. In literature section we reviewed export and competition in international markets, innovation, export knowledge and competition power, ambidexterity and its dimensions and new product development. After reviewing the literature, we created a model based on the literature and experts views. Experts verified our model and the proposed hypotheses after some discussions. Our proposed model shows that ambidexterity and its dimensions has a positive effect on export knowledge and an effect on export performance while export knowledge has a positive effect on export knowledge. Manuscript profile

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61 - Identify Indicators for Evaluating the Performance of Corporate Entrepreneurship
Saeed Safari Reza Abbasi Mozhgan Soltani Aliabad

10.7508/jstpi.2016.02.008

Today, in different countries, paying particular attention to entrepreneurship and foster entrepreneurship, and create a favorable environment for its development, Considered to be as a particularly tool for economic development in developing countries. The need of orga More

Today, in different countries, paying particular attention to entrepreneurship and foster entrepreneurship, and create a favorable environment for its development, Considered to be as a particularly tool for economic development in developing countries. The need of organizations to the phenomenon of entrepreneurship has been led to the creation of a certain territory of this concept that is called organizational entrepreneurship. As far as organizational entrepreneurship are transformed to one of the strategic approaches in organizations, to achieve high performance and great success. Choose this approach is effective for organizations when we can evaluate the results and provide organizational goals with proper management. So, having appropriate indicators to be used for the assessment of organizational entrepreneurship is very important. Therefore, this study seeks to identify appropriate indicators to evaluate the performance organizational entrepreneurship. For this purpose, after reviewing research literature, were extracted performance evaluation indicators, and with the help of the framework of EFQM Excellence Model, were classified in 9 categories. After refining the extracted indicators and removal of repetitive indicators, the 63 index that had remained, to determining the most important indicators, was placed in the hands of experts in the format of a questionnaire and Finally, by analyzing data obtained, were identified appropriate indicators to evaluate the performance. Results of present study, presented 29 indicators in nine criteria of: Leadership, Strategy, Employee, Partnerships and Resources, Processes, Products and Services, Customer Results, Employee Results, Society Results and Key Results; as the appropriate indicators to evaluating the performance of organizational entrepreneurship. Manuscript profile

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62 - The Effect of Environmental Pressure on the Firm Performance With an Emphasis on Green Technology Selection (Case Study: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises of Chemical Paint Production)
hamid azizmohamadlou sepide mohamadnejad madardi

10.7508/jstpi.2017.01.005

Firm performance is one of the most important criteria for evaluating their success . Given the fact that in recent decades concerns about the environment have increased , small and medium - sized enterprises should implement methods to improve their performance in this More

Firm performance is one of the most important criteria for evaluating their success . Given the fact that in recent decades concerns about the environment have increased , small and medium - sized enterprises should implement methods to improve their performance in this area. One of the methods is selection and deployment of green technologies . his concept has grown in recent years and many organizations have used it as an environmental strategy. Considering the fact that the most important issue for any organization is to improve revenue and profitability , green technology can take an important step in this direction by reducing energy consumption, waste reduction and increase in efficiency. The purpose of this work is to investigate the effect of environmental pressure on the firm performance with an emphasis on selection of green technology. Data are collected through the questionnaire and 75 samples from managers of small and medium-sized enterprises of chemical paint production . For testing the conceptual model , structural equation modeling based on partial least squares method is used . The results of this research show that pressure of macroeconomic circumstances has the most influence on the selection of the green technology , hence improving the environmental performance leads to growth in firm performance. It is anticipated with increasing the pressure of macroeconomic circumstance and government support , industries have tendency to selection of green technology. Manuscript profile

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63 - Impact of Knowledge Management on Private Banks Performance Through Mediation of Service Quality (Case Study: Private Banks of Kermanshah)
sahar sorkhvandi Rahele zeynivand seid hamed feizjavadian

10.7508/jstpi.2018.04.006

Identifying the needs and desires of employees and customers always includes a set of hidden dimensions, in accordance with the culture and conditions of each country. Knowledge management is a useful tool for banks to maximize their optimal performance. Therefore, reco More

Identifying the needs and desires of employees and customers always includes a set of hidden dimensions, in accordance with the culture and conditions of each country. Knowledge management is a useful tool for banks to maximize their optimal performance. Therefore, recognizing the relations among knowledge management, bank performance, and quality of service is essential. The aim of present study, is exploring the impact of knowledge management on private banks performance in Kermanshah city. Through mediation of service quality. This study is an applied research and a questionnaire was used to collect data. Statistical population in this study has been Kermanshah private banks (Parsian, Pasargad, Karafarin, Saman and Ayandeh bank). The sample size equals 100 people and sampling method is based on census (counting all). Data analysis is based on nature of the data and the way of discussing assumptions has been done in the form of central distribution statistics and regression models have been conducted by hidden variable with SPSS and AMOS soft wares. The findings of present study show that knowledge management influences the performance and service quality of private banks. Service quality has a positive and significant effect on private banks performance, and knowledge management considering mediation of service quality variable, has direct and indirect impact (by service quality variable) on private banks performance. Manuscript profile

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64 - The Role of Organizational Capabilities in Reducing Technological Risks and Improving the Market Performance of Knowledge Companies by Mediating role of Technology Intelligence
Mohammad hataminejad Mohsen Akbari Mostafa Ebrahim pour Azbary

10.52547/jstpi.20679.16.61.12

Nowadays knowledge-based companies are regarded as an important tool in economic development, and since in the current market, dynamic technological envirorments compel companies to seek smart and responsive solutions to this turbulent environment. The rapid rate of tec More

Nowadays knowledge-based companies are regarded as an important tool in economic development, and since in the current market, dynamic technological envirorments compel companies to seek smart and responsive solutions to this turbulent environment. The rapid rate of technological change puts knowledge-based companies at risk; therefore, in order to be efficient and effective in the field of technology, they must acquire the capabilities necessary for business product changes, materials, processes, and technologies. Organizational capabilities and technology intelligence are some of the tools that help companies adapt to technological environment. The purpose of this study is descriptive and the method of data gathering is, library and qualitative type based on content analysis. From the descriptive-analytical approach to content description and evaluation, 63 articles were selected that are closely related to the research topic and finally. According to the minimum number needed to generalize the results, according to experts and academic staff, 30 of the most relevant articles were analyzed as target community articles. In this study, qualitative content analysis method with summary approach was used. Organizing qualitative data in the analysis of this research has been done in three stages of initial coding, open coding and selective coding. the present study examines the role of organizational capabilities in reducing technological risk and knowledge based on knowledge and knowledge of knowledge - based businesses, examines the role of organizational capabilities in reducing technological risks and improving the market performance of knowledge firms by mediating the more efficient and developing competition and improving the new products and services. Manuscript profile

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65 - Identifying and Analyzing the Relationships of Successful Factors of Success with the Fuzzy Dematel Method, Case Study: Tehran Municipality Cultural and Cultural Organization
hadi heidari gharehbolagh meysam ghaffari

10.52547/jstpi.20793.17.67.21

The critical success factors for any business are a limited number of areas where satisfactory results in those domains will ensure successful competitive performance for organizations. In fact, the critical success factors for each organization's bottleneck are achievi More

The critical success factors for any business are a limited number of areas where satisfactory results in those domains will ensure successful competitive performance for organizations. In fact, the critical success factors for each organization's bottleneck are achieving strategic interests. Key strengths and merits and weaknesses in these areas are known as bottlenecks. In this paper, a method is proposed based on the theme analysis, in which the critical factors of the cultural and artistic organization of the municipality of Tehran as well as the critical factors of the success of the regions are identified and elaborated. Then, during the design of the performance management system of the Tehran Municipality's Cultural and Artistic Organization, and as a result, the need to design key performance indicators and results, critical success factors as sources for extracting these indicators were considered by the researchers of this management system. In the results obtained, the factors influencing the implementation of innovative and effective programs, the delineation of the mission and cultural goals of the organization, the human resources system and reward system, the recognition of the cultural and artistic needs of the people of Tehran, the effectiveness of internal elements, increasing the influence of people in the city of Tehran And satisfaction of the audience as the critical success factors of the cultural-artistic organization of the municipality of Tehran were identified. Finally, for the analysis of the relationships between the critical factors, the fuzzy dematel method was used. Manuscript profile

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66 - The Effect of Intellectual Capital on Competitive Advantage and Organizational Performance with Role of Innovation Mediator and Learning Culture
Vahid Dalvand Reza Sepahvand Amir Houshang Nazaripour

10.52547/jstpi.20925.18.69.34

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of intellectual capital on competitive advantage and organizational performance with the mediating role of innovation and learning culture among faculty members of Lorestan University. This research is descriptive More

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of intellectual capital on competitive advantage and organizational performance with the mediating role of innovation and learning culture among faculty members of Lorestan University. This research is descriptive in nature, with the exception of causal research, as well as a field research that is applied in the field of purpose. The statistical population of the study is 286 faculty members of Lorestan University. The random sampling method is proportional to the sample size and sample size according to the Morgan table and the number of 162 people. The data collection tool in this study is a standard questionnaire. The data from the questionnaires were analyzed using Lisrel software and SPSS software. The innovation of this research is to measure the variables in the academic field. Research results indicate that ??intellectual capital on competitive advantage; intellectual capital on organizational performance; intellectual capital on innovation; intellectual capital on culture; innovation on competitive advantage; innovation on organizational performance; learning culture on competitive advantage; learning culture on organizational performance Intellectual Capital through Innovation on Competitive Advantage; Intellectual Capital through Innovation on Organizational Performance; Intellectual Capital through Learning Culture on Competitive Advantage; Intellectual Capital through the Learning Culture has a direct impact on organizational performance. Manuscript profile

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67 - Strategic Fit Between Innovation Strategies and the Performance of Knowledge-Based Businesses
Farshad Ghaderi Fariborz Rahimnia

10.52547/jstpi.20928.17.66.21

Paying attention to the position and role of knowledge-based companies in advancing the country's economic and social goals is very important. On the other hand, the issue of dynamism and market turbulence in today's markets makes it even more important to pay attention More

Paying attention to the position and role of knowledge-based companies in advancing the country's economic and social goals is very important. On the other hand, the issue of dynamism and market turbulence in today's markets makes it even more important to pay attention to these businesses. The knowledge-based companies are based on innovation in business. However, the turmoil in markets and competition makes it important to pay attention to the dimensions of innovation strategies in different environmental conditions, and the business of students who do not consider innovation in line with environmental conditions may fail in innovation and will not perform well. The aim of this study is to investigate the strategic relationship between innovation strategies and business performance with the role of moderating market turbulence and environmental dynamics. The statistical population of this study includes 115 knowledge-based companies in East Azerbaijan province. In order to analyze the data, structural equation modeling method was used and the hypotheses were analyzed using AMOS software. The results showed that product innovation and process strategy have a positive relationship with business performance. However, the modification test results showed that process innovation performs better in high environment dynamics and product innovation in high market turbulence. Manuscript profile

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68 - Ethical practices in entrepreneurship and export learning orientation
Ali Kazemi Alireza Rousta abdollah naami

One of the key factors in achieving sustainable and prosperous economic growth is 'export' which is considered the most important goal in trade policy. Meanwhile, one of the requirements for economic development of the country is increasing food and agricultural export More

One of the key factors in achieving sustainable and prosperous economic growth is 'export' which is considered the most important goal in trade policy. Meanwhile, one of the requirements for economic development of the country is increasing food and agricultural export as one of the non-oil commodity export to move away from the oil-based economy, enter the global economic market and create diversity in exported goods. Therefore, the study of effective variables contributing to the field of export is of paramount importance. Considering the crucial role of human's effort and entrepreneurship in regard to religious education, it can be deduced that through examining verse 39 of Surah Najm, verse 15 of Surah Taha, verse 22 of Surah Ansab, the spiritual personality of human beings is directly in line with their own work and effort. In other words, the criterion for admiring people in the world of survival is what they do and the lasting impact they can have on the world. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effect of export learning orientation and entrepreneurship along with the contributing factors on export performance and to find the paradoxical role of market distance and its moderating role in the relationship between two variables of learning orientation and export performance. To test the research hypotheses, a sample of 296 people who worked in companies that took part in the International Exhibition of Food and Agriculture in 1998 was selected. Using a standard questionnaire and random sampling method, data was collected and analyzed by SPSS and smart PLS software. The findings of the present study depict that the export commitment, resources and intensity of competition have a positive effect on export entrepreneurship, but the effect of market distance on export entrepreneurship is not significant. The results also reveal the positive effect of the export learning orientation and entrepreneurship on the export performance of the sample companies. However, increasing the market distance variable weakens the relationship between export learning orientation and export performance. Manuscript profile

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69 - Reflection on the Relationship between Education and Child Rights
Amene Aali

The wide range of legal implications of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) have made it closely linked to various child-related social institutions and activities. One of the most important institutions or social activities that most children More

The wide range of legal implications of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) have made it closely linked to various child-related social institutions and activities. One of the most important institutions or social activities that most children are exposed to on a daily basis is education, which is important in examining its relationship to children's rights. Accordingly, this paper presents an interpretative model of the multiple relationship between the education system and CRC with an overview of theoretical texts and research reports in the literature on child rights and implications for evaluating school performance from the child rights perspective. According to the results of this study, there is a three-way relationship between education and children's rights: education is a child's right; school is a tool for observing children's rights; and education is a subject of children's rights monitoring. The third aspect of this relationship emphasizes the need to evaluate school performance from a child rights perspective. Among the 41 articles on CRC, the right to participate, non-discrimination, defense and litigation, protection of violence, the best interests, privacy, freedom of expression, and security are fundamental rights that can be used as criteria for assessing The school's performance is in observance of children's rights and in compliance with CRC. Manuscript profile

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70 - Compare Flow State Experience (Peak Performance) in Elite and Non-Elite Iranian Athletic
Mohamad Amin Jalilvand Rasoul Roshan Maryam Esmailinasab Rasoul Hemayttalab

The purpose of this study was to compare selected flow state experience (peak performance) in elite and non-elite Iranian athletic. This study examined relationships between peak performance, and flow state. The flow-feeling theory helps in understanding the reason peop More

The purpose of this study was to compare selected flow state experience (peak performance) in elite and non-elite Iranian athletic. This study examined relationships between peak performance, and flow state. The flow-feeling theory helps in understanding the reason people do activities in maximum (peak performance)and extremely motivated state. The elite sample included 55 and non- elite 50 females and males (with 23.5 in average) athletic. They were interviewed and questioned, Flow State Scale-2-Chen, Hung (DFS_2) was used for data collection. The t-test revealed a significant difference between elite and non-elite athletic in 4 factor, and totale flow state, and five others. Some results indicate to there can be a state of flow on the athletic. However, elite athletic were better than non- elite athletic in all catagorys. According to the results of this study, it is recommended that elite athletic. Manuscript profile

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71 - The Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Self-Efficacy based on Job Performance
Hadith Baghery Damoon Razmjooei Elham Saei

The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and self-efficacy based on job performance of Khoramshahr port personnel. All 340 personnel of the Khoramshhar port were considered as target population of the study. Simple random sa More

The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and self-efficacy based on job performance of Khoramshahr port personnel. All 340 personnel of the Khoramshhar port were considered as target population of the study. Simple random sampling technique was used in this study. The research studied consisted of 181 personnel using both Cokaran and Krejcie and Morgan table to determine sample size. To collect data the participants were asked to answer three different questionaire including Bradberry and Greaves Emotional Intelligence, Riggs and Knights’ Self- Efficacy as well as Paterson’s Job Performance Questionnaire forms. Pearson correlation coefficient, regression analysis and Analysis of variance were used to calculate the relationship between emotional intelligence and self- efficacy as and job performance as. SPSS was used to perform the data analysis and for hypothesis testing. The result indicated that there was no relationship between emotional intelligence and job performance of the khormashahr port personnel. However there was a positive relationship between self- efficacy and job performance among the personnel. In other words self- efficacy had an important role in job performance. The study further revealed that emotional intelligence plays an important role on self- efficacy variable so that they affect each other. Manuscript profile

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72 - The Effect of Positive Affect Induction on Verbal Cognitive Performance in Extroversion Personality
Niloofar Abedini Parviz Azadfallah

In the present study, the effect of positive affect induction on verbal cognitive performance in extrovert and introvert personality types is studied. The first sample of the research includes 180 female students of Tarbiat Modares university selected with available sam More

In the present study, the effect of positive affect induction on verbal cognitive performance in extrovert and introvert personality types is studied. The first sample of the research includes 180 female students of Tarbiat Modares university selected with available sampling method. With respect to their score in Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and based on statistical analysis, 30 participants (in 2 extrovert and introvert groups) were chosen for the next step of the research. In the next step, a short movie clip for inducting positive affect was shown to the half of the participants, then respectively, the first verbal task and PANAS questionnaire were taken. After that, all previous steps (with an equal verbal task) were done but this time for negative affect induction. For the remaining participants, the reverse process was done, i.e., first negative affect induction and then positive affect induction. The results were analyzed with descriptive statistics methods and t-test of two dependent groups, t-test of two independent groups and Yu-Mann-Whitney test. The observations showed that the positive affect induction improves the verbal fluency performance. On the other hand in the case of positive emotional induction, extroverts have better verbal performance than introverts. conclusion: In general the results showed that the positive affect induction affects the cognitive performances. Also, personality traits associated with affections such as extroversion can modify these effects. Manuscript profile

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73 - Investigating the Mediating Role of Organization-Based Self-Esteem in the Effect of Conscientiousness & Agreeableness on Task Performance & Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Employees of the National Iranian Drilling Company
Mohammad Bagher Kajbaf sima parizadeh Sahar Savadkouhi Saba Gheysari

The aim of this study was to, investigated the mediating role of organization-based self-esteem in the effect of conscientiousness & agreeableness on task performance and organizational citizenship behavior. The sample of study was 234 employees of the National Iranian More

The aim of this study was to, investigated the mediating role of organization-based self-esteem in the effect of conscientiousness & agreeableness on task performance and organizational citizenship behavior. The sample of study was 234 employees of the National Iranian Drilling Company who were selected using stratified random sampling. In this study, was used standard questionnaires such as personality characteristics (NEO), job performance, organizational citizenship behavior, & organization-based self-esteem, & for analyzing data, was used Path Analysis Method. The research model test showed the good fitted of the model. Examination of the direct effects indicated that conscientiousness & agreeableness have a significant & positive effect on task performance, organizational citizenship behavior, & organization-based self-esteem, & organization-based self-esteem has a significant & positive effect on task performance, & organizational citizenship behavior. Also, the indirect effects test showed that organization-based self-esteem has mediating role in the effect of conscientiousness & agreeableness on task performance & organizational citizenship behavior. Accordingly, with regard to variables such as conscientiousness, agreeableness & increase of organization-based self-esteem, the rate of task performance, & employees’ organizational citizenship behavior could be increased. Manuscript profile

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74 - Evaluation of Think Tanks in Isfahan Municipality
Saeed Ebrahimi zahra Ghatei Kalashami Masoud Hajbandeh

Think tanks serve as a bridge between knowledge and policy. They provide the needed information for planning and decision making by analyzing issues and providing solutions. So policy makers can take efficient decision based on think tank outputs to solve problems. Isfa More

Think tanks serve as a bridge between knowledge and policy. They provide the needed information for planning and decision making by analyzing issues and providing solutions. So policy makers can take efficient decision based on think tank outputs to solve problems. Isfahan municipality is a key organization in urban development, so it needs to take efficient decision for solving problems. Therefore specialist think tanks are established in Isfahan municipality. In this study, think tanks were evaluated in order to increase the efficiency and effectiveness their performance. The research method is descriptive-analytic. Information was collected based on documental analysis method. In order to examine think tanks in Isfahan municipality, indicators were extracted with using literature review and opinions of Isfahan municipality experts. These indicators were evaluated by 30 members of think tanks of Isfahan Municipality. Research findings showed that think tanks were evaluated Relatively desirable in leader of think tank ability, Service description, access to urban decision-makers, persons with different ideas, Level of participation of managers, paying attention to foresight, using of think tank methods, knowledge management and results publication and Recommendations considered by policymakers and civil society organizations. Manuscript profile

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75 - Analyzing the Role of Collaborative and Competitive Leader Conflict Management Styles in Innovative Performance of Entrepreneurial Teams (Case Study of Shiraz Industrial Companies)
Mohammad ghaffari akram nariman

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Leadership Collaborative and Competitive Conflict Management Styles and the innovative performance of the entrepreneurial team by considering the mediating role of team passion. This study was applied More

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Leadership Collaborative and Competitive Conflict Management Styles and the innovative performance of the entrepreneurial team by considering the mediating role of team passion. This study was applied in a descriptive and surveyed manner. The statistical population in this study is 212 employees of industrial companies in Shiraz who were selected by convenience sampling method. For data analysis, partial least squares method and Smart PLS2 software were used. Convergent validity was used to assess the validity and Cronbach's alpha was used to measure the reliability and its coefficient is more than 0.7 for all research structures. The results show that collaborative conflict management style has a positive and significant effect on team passion, but competitive conflict management style has a negative and significant effect on team passion. The results of the study confirmed the positive and significant effect of team passion and innovative performance of entrepreneurial teams. Team passion also mediates the relationship between collaborative conflict management style and the innovative performance of entrepreneurial teams, but does not mediate the relationship between competitive conflict management style and the innovative performance of entrepreneurial teams Manuscript profile

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76 - The effect of firm capabilities on the innovative Performance of Iranian knowledge-based Firms
Javad Soltanzadeh Esmaeil Ghaderifar Hojat Rezaei Soufi

Firms try to increase their innovative performance to survive in a turbulent market and improve their competitive position. Combining these efforts does not necessarily lead to profit and increase their market share. To understand this shortcoming, researchers look at t More

Firms try to increase their innovative performance to survive in a turbulent market and improve their competitive position. Combining these efforts does not necessarily lead to profit and increase their market share. To understand this shortcoming, researchers look at the factors that affect innovation performance and how to measure it. However, the subject that needs to be addressed is the firm's innovative behavior, which can affect innovation performance. By borrowing from the concept of dynamic capabilities, the present study has tried to classify the possible types of capabilities to create new products, services, and processes into three general categories: innovation capabilities, collaboration-based capabilities, and complementary capabilities, and by presenting different hypotheses for the effectiveness of these capabilities. Test the firm in innovative performance. For this purpose,180 questionnaires were distributed among firms to report the number of new products/services, the number of new processes, their financial performance, and the types of measures taken in their field of innovation from 1392 to 1394. After confirming their validity and reliability and creating structural equations using the partial least squares (PLS) method, results showed that innovation capabilities and collaboration-based capabilities significantly positively affect innovation performance. Also, research and development, training of human resources, design, collaborative research and development, and purchase of technical knowledge have significant path coefficients in the resulting PLS model and significantly affect innovation. In addition, the purchase of machinery and tools only significantly affects the creation of innovation. Manuscript profile

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77 - Designing a Model for Evaluating and Improving the Performance of Urban Plans
Esma’il JahaniDowlatabad Rahman جهانی دولت‌آباد

Through differentiation between urban plans and projects, this paper emphasizes that urban plans are less exposed to evaluation because of the lack of defined performance evaluation models and the difficulty of evaluating the performance of urban plans compared to urban More

Through differentiation between urban plans and projects, this paper emphasizes that urban plans are less exposed to evaluation because of the lack of defined performance evaluation models and the difficulty of evaluating the performance of urban plans compared to urban projects. However, many of these plans are in dire need of rigorous study and evaluation. Accordingly, we have tried to provide a theoretical-methodical model for evaluating and improving the performance of urban plans,based on existing theoretical approaches and also results of research in this area. Our proposed model evaluates the performance of urban plans by measuring three main variables, i.e. effectiveness, justification and sustainability of results, each of which follows a different measurement and evaluation process. This model explores the origins and causes of success or failure of a plan in three areas, namely policy making, implementation, and participation, and the resultedmanagementsystem is based on two key mechanisms: structure and approach. This model presents a six-step process in the field of research that methodically enables the researchers to estimate the performance of the urban plans;and by identifying the successes / failures causes,it can provide objective and practical suggestions for improving the performance of these plans. Hopefully the proposed model in this paper will provide the researchers with at least an initial guidelinefor evaluating and improving the performance of urban plans. Manuscript profile

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78 - Effects of knowledge management strategy on organizational performance ( case study :Bandar Abbas Industrial Towns)
Mohammad Taqi Amini Mohammad خیری عیسی جمعه زاده

Today organizations must be able to gain the necessary knowledge for modernization of their products and improvement of their processes, and also spread this idea among their stuff and apply in their all daily activities. In knowledge-based economy, organizations use kn More

Today organizations must be able to gain the necessary knowledge for modernization of their products and improvement of their processes, and also spread this idea among their stuff and apply in their all daily activities. In knowledge-based economy, organizations use knowledge management as an essential factor for better performance and to gain the advantage of competition, and in this respect knowledge management strategies play main part in improvement of organizational performance. This article has studied the effect of knowledge management strategy on organizational performance in companies located in Bandar Abbas Industrial Town. Main goal of this study has been the study of effects of knowledge management strategy on organizational performance in companies located in Bandar Abbas Industrial Town in 1393. In terms of the goal of research this study is an applying study, and in terms of method of data collecting is descriptive-surveying research, and in terms of relation between variables of the study it is of correlation type and specifically is based on structural equations. The tool for collecting data is questionnaire. Statistical population of this study was 475 people of managers, deputies, and middle-rank managers of Bandar Abbas industrial towns, that 212 people were chosen as sample using Morgan table to specify the sample size. Analyzing data was done using community average exam and structural equations model. The findings of this study showed that there was positive and meaningful relation between setting knowledge management and organizational performance in Bandar Abbas Industrial Town. Manuscript profile

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79 - Analysis the Relationship Between the organizational intelligence and the goal_oriented organizational forgetfulness in the Higher Education Center of Ilam city
Mohammad Taban ولی محمد درینی زهره محمدیاری فاطمه فروزش

The present research aims to analysis the relationship between the organizational intelligence and the goal_oriented organizational forgetfulness in the Higher Education Center of Ilam city. statistical population include official employees of Ilam's governmental orga More

The present research aims to analysis the relationship between the organizational intelligence and the goal_oriented organizational forgetfulness in the Higher Education Center of Ilam city. statistical population include official employees of Ilam's governmental organizations, and their educational degrees were bachelor's degree and higher. By using Kochran's formula sample size was determined as 380 persons. For data collection, two standardized questionnaires "organizational intelligence questionnaire" and "goal_oriented organizational forgetfulness questionnaire" were distributed among 390 employees. The collected data was analyzed by using software LISREL and SPSS. According to the researrch's findings, it could be concluded that there are the significant correlation between the dimensions of organizational intelligence (strategic conception, common fate, morale, knowledge usage, performance pressure, unity, and willingness to change) with the organizational forgetfulness in Ilam's Higher Education Center. Manuscript profile

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80 - Training of University’s Human Resources and its Impact on Quality of work life and performance of staff (case study: Iran university of science and Technology staffs)
علی بنیادی نایینی سید محسن اقبالی

This study has been implemented aimed to investigate the effect of training on quality of work life and work performance among employees Iran University of Science and Technology. In order to achieve this target statistical population (all employees Iran University of S More

This study has been implemented aimed to investigate the effect of training on quality of work life and work performance among employees Iran University of Science and Technology. In order to achieve this target statistical population (all employees Iran University of Science and Technology) which were 1180, have divided into 3 groups; service staff, administrative staff and professors. And of these, 500 employees that randomly selected from a list of employees, responded to the survey questionnaire. Research method is Correlation and questionnaires used in the survey includes: Quality of work life questionnaire (with 27 questions) components are designed based on the quality of work life, Casio Merton’s and Training questionnaire (with 19 questions) and performance assessment questionnaire (with 12 questions). To assess the reliability are used Cronbach's alpha and SPSS software, Where was obtained; reliability coefficient of performance assessment questionnaire 0/84, Reliability coefficients quality of work life questionnaire 0/88 and Reliability coefficient of training method 0/79. In order to analyze data and determine the relationship between the three variables, we used correlation test and to check whether or not a significant difference was used analysis of variance. This study indicates that "the relationship between quality of work life and performance of staff is significant in level of 0/014 with training staff. The main results of this study indicated an inverse relation between the level of education of employees and their willingness to learn. Manuscript profile

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81 - Information technology -based model of operations integrated strategies and its function on organizational performance
Seyed Mahmood Zanjirchi hamidreza shokrizade negar jalilian

In recent years, the focus of many organizations is rapt to achieve superior performance as a competitive advantage, and managers are striving to encourage the organization in order to improve their performance. Due to this important issue, in this study the initially r More

In recent years, the focus of many organizations is rapt to achieve superior performance as a competitive advantage, and managers are striving to encourage the organization in order to improve their performance. Due to this important issue, in this study the initially regarding the role of information in the effectiveness of supply chain strategies performance and also considering the role of supply chain strategies in improving supply chain performance and consequently the performance of the organization, the conceptual model was designed. The data needed to test the conceptual model by using standard questionnaires were collected which the content validity by experts and its reliability by calculating the Cronbach's alpha was approved. The questionnaire were distributed Between 135 members of the ceramic & tile industry executives in Yazd and the collected data were analyzed using structural equation modeling with LISREL software version 8.2.The results of the analysis of the data showed that the significant level between all the variables was greater than (1/96) which indicates that the relationship between them in the level of confidence (95%) is significant. Besides, the path coefficient shows the intensity impact of the independent variable on the dependent one so that, all hypotheses were confirmed. Manuscript profile

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82 - Impact of green human resource factors on environmental performance in manufacturing companies (Case study: petrochemical companies in Assaluyeh and Mahshahr)
Soheila Bourghani Farahani Banafsheh Fotovat Maryam Khadem

Abstract This study aimed to Impact of green human resource factors on environmental performance in manufacturing companies at petrochemical companies in assaluyeh and mahshahr.This is a descriptive-correlational study with applied objective. The target population incl More

Abstract This study aimed to Impact of green human resource factors on environmental performance in manufacturing companies at petrochemical companies in assaluyeh and mahshahr.This is a descriptive-correlational study with applied objective. The target population includes experts and human resource managers health, safety & environment management system of petrochemical companies in assaluyeh and mahshahr. That society is 600 people that the statistical sample consists of234 subjects who were selected by the random sampling method. standard questionnaire of Green Human Resources factors and Environmental performance from Anusingh and Shikha used to collect data Finally the study data was analyzed by Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) method The results showed top management commitment to environmental management, employee environmental training, employees team work, employee Involvement, employee environmental rewards and green programs have a significant and positive impact on environmental performance but environmental cooperation staff had no significant impact on environmental performance. Manuscript profile

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83 -  Survey the effect of market orientation on Business performance using the model of Harrison and walker
علی اکبر جوکار نبی الله نجاتی زاده

We live in an era of knowledge and information to that wonderful era, the era of technology and creativity is incredible acceleration. With quick access to computers and information technology and media publicity by advanced economies century, no country and no little e More

We live in an era of knowledge and information to that wonderful era, the era of technology and creativity is incredible acceleration. With quick access to computers and information technology and media publicity by advanced economies century, no country and no little electronic century, little infrastructure to handle. One of the important factors in management decision making information. Accurate information, accurate, timely decision making and increase the speed of the front of the decisions will be wrong. During these years, the process of globalization and rapid technological advances that markets are changing fast. Future success in challenging markets require informed and ready to react fast. Shadow is possible to provide greater customer satisfaction. The study will attempt to identify the expectations of customers, markets and competitors to provide a way to pay for things. Thus, according to Harrison and Walker model to 4 competitive orientation, customer orientation, market orientation and organizational performance refers to the 250 Employees of the National Bank has been studied. According to some experts seem to believe, the impact of market orientation with business performance in order to reach good results. Manuscript profile

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84 - (Proposing a Rapid Plant Assessment Hybrid method using Data Envelopment Analysis for Municipalities Performance Evaluation (Case Study: Isfahan Municipality
Rouzbeh Ghousi ali naddafpour

Municipal is a public institution that independent, non-governmental, to the nature of the state and local performance that has the duty of the city and serve the citizens and tourists to be responsible, and as one of the principles of management, use of local resources More

Municipal is a public institution that independent, non-governmental, to the nature of the state and local performance that has the duty of the city and serve the citizens and tourists to be responsible, and as one of the principles of management, use of local resources to its task-focused. Effective accountability and improve the efficient activities of a variety of municipal needs assessment. Evaluating the performance of the corporate sector is usually synonymous with the effectiveness of activities. One of the methods used to assess is fast evaluate. And other quantitative performance Assessment methods, data is envelopment analysis that relative to assessment of performance pay. Given the importance of evaluating the performance of municipalities, this study provides a combination of performance assessment using data envelopment analysis and rapid assessment are discussed. For this purpose, in the first chapter the words of the issue has been discussed and explained the objectives and research questions. In the second chapter the research literature and research methods described in Chapter III. In the fourth chapter the index has been developed for the rapid assessment to evaluate areas of the municipality. And by providing rapid assessment of tick box of municipalities was discussed. Which formed DEA model to evaluate the relative performance of municipalities and the number of performance in each region were determined. Then by sensitivity analysis on the model input data envelopment analysis to prioritize rapid assessment indicators, and then use the same method to determine the priority region of the municipality was the ideal option. After the above steps, in the rapid assessment survey regions 6, 11 and 12, respectively ranked first and the third & in evaluating the performance of the municipal regions of the DEA BCC using the input, the number of functional regions, including six regions units 4, 5, 8, 13, 14 and 15 were identified and in combination with problem solving method returns to scale the number of functional regions, including four units, the regions 4, 5, 8, 13, 14 and 15 were determined. After sensitivity analysis of the input variables in BCC, The effect of varying complexity and diversity management practices and continuous improvement and effective management also vary in SBM 's been more than others. The results of the rapid assessment approach by prioritizing organizational units similar to the ideal option indicated that the municipal zone 11 has a minimum distance with the ideal option and has earned first place and then in the region 6 won the second prize. Manuscript profile

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85 - The Effect of Brand distinctiveness and performance on Brand Competitiveness with the Mediating Role of Technological Opportunism
Davood Feiz Ali Reza Motameni Asadolah Kordnaeij Azim Zarei Mahdi Dehghani Soltani

Today, brand competitiveness is among those issues which has received much attention among researchers and scholars in economy and has been touched upon as a means to achieve desired economic growth and sustained development. In today’s world, the development of food in More

Today, brand competitiveness is among those issues which has received much attention among researchers and scholars in economy and has been touched upon as a means to achieve desired economic growth and sustained development. In today’s world, the development of food industry market from one hand and increase in competitiveness among firms and customers’ expectations, on the other hand, have persuaded food companies to generate a strong brand in today’s competitive markets. The present research is aimed at studying and examining the effect of brand distinctiveness and performance on brand competitiveness through the mediating role of technological opportunism among super exporter firms of food industry products. Data gathering instrument was a standard questionnaire whose face validity for validity purpose and Cronbach alpha coefficient for its reliability were examined. This study is practical in aim and descriptive-survey in data gathering procedure. To test the research hypotheses and to confirm the conceptual model, structural equation modeling was used. The results show that brand distinctiveness and performance have a significant positive effect on brand competitiveness while technological opportunism has a mediating role in the above relationship. Manuscript profile

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86 - Studying the effect of Qualified Management on Environmental Management and Green Supply Chain and their impact on Green function ( A Case study done by:Pars Khazar co.)
seyyed sajjad mohtasham Reza Esmaeilpour Mohammad Rahim Ramazanian

Nowadays, in the competitive market, for survival in the global and local competition, companies are required to improve the quality of their goods and do not limit the improvement of the quality of their products to a series of characteristics and features to attract t More

Nowadays, in the competitive market, for survival in the global and local competition, companies are required to improve the quality of their goods and do not limit the improvement of the quality of their products to a series of characteristics and features to attract the customers’ satisfaction. But, they consider the quality in the product’s design and process and believe that in order to achieve a developed production and improve the performance, they must include the environmental factor in the quality of their goods. Considering environmental factors and managing the green supply chain are effective in the quality of goods and lead to an improvement in the performance of companies in production. This research is applied in terms of objective and scientific in terms of nature and research methodology, and its statistical population includes all managers, experts, consultants, engineers, employees, customers and some of expert activists in the sector of Pars Khazar manufacturing companies and their relating branches. For data analysis, the structural equations modeling, partial least squares, multivariate analysis and fitness model variables test were done using LISREL(8.5) and SPSS(21) softwares. Manuscript profile

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87 - The Effect Of Corporate Social Responsibility On Financial Performance And Consumer Reactions In The Food Industries

This research is applied in light of aim, descriptive, survey-based, and field study in light of nature. Theoretical foundations of the research were collected through historical study and its data was obtained by means of random sampling and by aresearcher made questio More

This research is applied in light of aim, descriptive, survey-based, and field study in light of nature. Theoretical foundations of the research were collected through historical study and its data was obtained by means of random sampling and by aresearcher made questionnaire, which its total reliability was equal to 978%. The target statistical population of the research includes the managers and the major customers of the selected food firms in khuzestan province. The research sample consists of 540 individuals of managers and customers, who have been selected randomly. For responding the research question, testing the hypotheses and analyzing the collected data, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics, with SPSS and AMOS software, were employed. According to obtained results all research hypotheses have been confirmed, at 95% level of confidence. Furthermore, the research findings have revealed that the research model fits the data collected from the target statistical population.Thus, corporate social responsibility influences onfinancial performance directly and indirectly with the mediating effect of consumer reactions. Manuscript profile

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88 - Impact of SC Enablers on SC Sustainability with moderating role of SC performance in machine made carpet industry of Iran.
Esmaeil Mazroui Nasrabadi abbas shoul

One problem of machine made carpet industry problems is short life, then attending to sustainability is crucial. In recent years, social dimension, environmental dimension and financial dimension is regarded as sustainability dimensions. For achieving sustainability, di More

One problem of machine made carpet industry problems is short life, then attending to sustainability is crucial. In recent years, social dimension, environmental dimension and financial dimension is regarded as sustainability dimensions. For achieving sustainability, diverse enablers have been introduced. The role of SC performance in this relationship is vague. In this study we investigated Impact of SC Enablers on SC Sustainability with moderating role of SC performance in machine made carpet industry of Iran. Statistical Society in first step is expert and in the second step is machine made carpet firms. For analyzing data, we use Delphi, EFA and DFA. Result has been showed that SC performance has the mediation role in the relationship between enablers and sustainability. In enabler's dimension, knowledge and info management and good relationship have the first importance. In SC performance and SC sustainability we didn't see any difference. Manuscript profile

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89 - Work-life quality and organizational performance, using the Balanced Scorecard (Case Study: University of Science and Technology)
saeed khademian hamed dehghanan

Today, the importance of human resources in organizations is obvious. On the other hand achieving improved organizational performance requires attention to staff motivation and continual improvement of these factors are factors. Therefore, the quality of working life of More

Today, the importance of human resources in organizations is obvious. On the other hand achieving improved organizational performance requires attention to staff motivation and continual improvement of these factors are factors. Therefore, the quality of working life of the factors that on various topics such as productivity of people and organizational performance, impact. Balanced Scorecard is a performance evaluation of new methods In this method, organization or enterprise in the four-way learning, internal processes, financial and customer is assessed. Thus, according to the staff at the University of Science and Technology and their effective role in the performance of the organization, in the present study seeks to answer the question that Does the quality of work life and organizational performance using the Balanced Scorecard at the University of Science and Technology Indicators There is a significant relationship? The methodology of this research is descriptive-survey-correlation and it is aimed at applied research. The population of the research staff of the University of Science and Technology is a high school diploma or higher. The sample size was calculated using the Cochran 270. Sampling in this study was stratified random sampling. Library and field research data were collected in two parts, Walton's QWL model and evaluate the performance of two organizations with a research design was used. Prshnamh reliability using Cronbach's methods The more Tyb 907/0 and 890/0, respectively and the validity of the method has been validated using expert opinions To analyze the data, Pearson correlation test using LISREL is used. The main hypothesis of this study, the relationship between quality of work life and organizational performance Based on the results obtained in this study was confirmed.Based on the findings, the quality of working life in the layers in order on financial, learning and development, internal processes and client layers organizational performance had the greatest amount of influence Based on these results the organization should plan on financial topics and learning and growth Azparamtrhay quality of work life The payment of fair and sufficient and ongoing growth opportunity and security conditions improve staff productivity and provide organizational performance. Manuscript profile

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90 - Strategic orientation of the business and its impact on brand performance
Ali Pourang Pourang

Undoubtedly, the success of a business is the business of brand performance. Company performance is influenced by the competitive advantage and competitive advantage, resulting in output of a firm's strategy is to lead a company relative to competitors in the market sho More

Undoubtedly, the success of a business is the business of brand performance. Company performance is influenced by the competitive advantage and competitive advantage, resulting in output of a firm's strategy is to lead a company relative to competitors in the market shows. Business strategies include integrated measures in search of competitive advantage. This strategy, to a management plan for an area or business' activities of the organization to access corporate resources on its successful business performance drives. This study examines the strategic orientation of the business and its impact on brand performance of listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange during the period from 1388 to 1393 was conducted. The study population was all firms active in the Tehran Stock Exchange that the filters were finally selected as statistical sample of 110 companies. In this study the strategic direction of the business to prospective companies and corporations defensive been divided into two categories and the combined scoring system was used to determine the strategy of each company. In addition to measuring brand performance of the two financial indicators Return on assets, return on equity is used. The results indicate that the strategic orientation of companies in the business a significant effect on brand performance through both indicators are used; In other words direct and significant relationship between the company's strategic orientation in the business and financial performance indicators of its brand through brand performance there. Manuscript profile

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91 - Structural Pattern of the Effects of Total Quality Management Components on Staff’s job Performance Along with Moderating Role of Organizational Factors in Teacher Training Universities
akbar keshavarzi

The main purpose of this research was to explore the effect of total quality management’ (TQM) components on the job performance of the employees considering the moderating effect of personal factors in teacher education universities of Iran. This study was conducted us More

The main purpose of this research was to explore the effect of total quality management’ (TQM) components on the job performance of the employees considering the moderating effect of personal factors in teacher education universities of Iran. This study was conducted using correlational research method. Its statistical population consisted of all the staff employees working in the teacher education universities situated in 32 provinces of Iran (n=2553). Using Kerjesi-Morgan table and random cluster sampling method, a sample of 335 subjects was selected. Data collection was done using four questionnaires including TQM’s questionnaire developed by US Federal Quality Institute, Paterson’s (2000) job performance questionnaire and two self-designed questionnaires on the personal knowledge and skill factors which were checked and confirmed by the respective experts and practitioners in terms of their validity. Estimated using Cronbach’s alpha, the reliability of four questionnaires was found to be 0.97, 0.92, 0.95 and 0.74, respectively. As per the results, there was a statistically significant relationship between the components of customer focus, employee empowerment and teamwork, quality analysis, quality assurance and quality improvement and the job performance with the moderating effect of personal knowledge (P<0.01). Furthermore, considering the skill as the moderator variable, a statistically significant relationship was observed between the top management support and leadership, strategic planning, customer focus, quality assurance and quality improvement and the job performance of the employees in question(P<0.01). ). It is suggested that Teacher Training Universities apply Total Quality Management to improve job performance of their staff, where organizational culture and organizational support play a key role. Manuscript profile

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92 - Developing and explaining of the performance enhancing model of company based on the effective components of intellectual capital and organization entrepreneurship
mirza hasan hosseini Aliakbar Jowkar Zynolabdin Rahmani Elham Keshavarz

According to importance of subject, the aim of this study is to evaluate and rank factors of intellectual capital and organization entrepreneurship that aims to improve the performance of corporation. Therefore, after reviewing the literature and interviews with profess More

According to importance of subject, the aim of this study is to evaluate and rank factors of intellectual capital and organization entrepreneurship that aims to improve the performance of corporation. Therefore, after reviewing the literature and interviews with professors and coil industry experts, intellectual capital, organization entrepreneurship and firm performance factors were identified. After designing and distributing questionnaires among coil industry experts, priority and importance of each of these factors with using Fuzzy TOPSIS, FAHP, vikor, ELECTRE were evaluated. According to the results of the above methods in cases not compatible with each other, to achieve the overall ranking of integration methods (POSET) that includes: rating average method, Borda method, Copeland method and integration phase (POSET) has been used. The results obtained from FAHP method, according to the company's performance improvement indicate that the net profit is the most important subcategory of the factors affecting corporate performance improvement; competitive advantages, customer retention, market value of the company; innovation capacity and volume of transaction are at ranking highest respectively. The results obtained from FAHP method indicate that organization entrepreneurship is more significant than intellectual capital of the factors affecting corporate performance improvement. Different Ratings have offered for intellectual capital and sub-scales of Human capital, Structural Capital, Relational Capital, Innovation Capital and Customer Capital factors. To reach a consensus, it was used in the ranking of integration (POSET) method and based on integration (POSET) method is most important factors of intellectual capital that helps to improve company performance improvement in order of importance include: Human capital, Structural Capital, Relational Capital, Innovation Capital, Customer Capital factors and also, the most important factors of Human capital, Structural Capital, Relational Capital, Innovation Capital, Customer Capital regarding to company performance improvement in order of importance Include: Leadership ability, Employees’ competence, Employees’ experience, Employees’ creativity, Individual-level knowledge, Customer satisfaction, Motivation of the personnel, Customer loyalty, Employees’ attitude, Organizational structure, Staff’s experience, Organizational learning, Marketing capability, Databases, Management system, Use of knowledge, Strategically values, Operation process, Information system, Corporate culture, Brand value, Mission-vision, Relationship with suppliers and competitors, Size of organization, Innovation culture, Relationship with other organization, Market intensity, Company lifecycle, Customer appropriateness, Innovation mechanism and Innovation achievements. based on integration (POSET) method is most important factors of organization entrepreneurship that helps to improve company performance improvement in order of importance include: structural factors, underlying factors, behavioral factors and also, the most important factors of structural factors, underlying factors, behavioral factors regarding to company performance improvement in order of importance Include: Entrepreneur organization structure, Entrepreneur organization strategy. Reward system, Political/ governmental factors, Decision making/control, Infrastructure, Organizational culture, Management Support, Communications, Financial system , Availability to resource, Technology, Performance evaluation system, Uncertainty/ changes, Employee empowerment, Information system , Complexity, Research and development system , Risk Taking, Market, Employee's characteristics , Team spirit, Manager characteristics, Foresight , Self-Efficacy ,Creativity and innovation, Previous experience and Entrepreneur Organization leadership style Manuscript profile

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93 - Investigating Effect of Technological Variables and Organizational Learning on Organizational Performance Through the Mediation of Organizational Innovation (Case Study: Iranian Industry Bank)
Mahdi Joneidi Jafari Mohammad Aghdasi

This paper examines the effects of technological variables, including top management support for technology, on the development of technological skills, technological distinctive competencies and organizational learning. It also examines the effects of technological dis More

This paper examines the effects of technological variables, including top management support for technology, on the development of technological skills, technological distinctive competencies and organizational learning. It also examines the effects of technological distinctive competencies and organizational learning on organizational innovation. How these variables affect organizational performance. This study was conducted using a descriptive-survey research method with a sample of 30 banks approved by the Central Bank of Iran using a questionnaire and through structural equation method. The results of the research show that: (1) top management support has a positive impact on the development of technology skills, technological distinctive competencies, and organizational learning. (2) Technological distinctive competencies and organizational learning, directly or indirectly through organizational innovation, have a positive impact on organizational performance. It was also confirmed that innovation has a positive impact on organizational performance. Research also has recommendations for business professionals that the creation of merit is complex and a long-term process that should be pursued with the long-term strategy of the company. Therefore, the involvement of management through the design of an entrepreneurial strategy is also a major issue. Manuscript profile

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94 - Performance measurement system in urban transportation usin BSC-ANP
سید علی سرکشیکیان علیرضا معینی Alireza Aliahmadi

The main objective of this research is to develop a performance measurement system for a desired urban transportation system based on its values, mission, and vision. Based on investigating of different performance evaluation models, the performance measurement system w More

The main objective of this research is to develop a performance measurement system for a desired urban transportation system based on its values, mission, and vision. Based on investigating of different performance evaluation models, the performance measurement system was designed through Balanced Scorecard (BSC). Prioritization of Balanced Scorecard perspectives and indicators was also conducted using Analysis Network Process (ANP) and questionnaires collected from the expert team. Nominal group technique was used by the expert’s team to determine and confirm the results. In addition, to determine performance evaluation indicators, related literature, general policies, successful experiences and scientific breakthroughs were considered and the opinions of experts were extracted in consecutive meetings. Eventually, development of a sustainable, Justly, safe, economical, fast, and comfortable transportation system, with maximum efficiency and minimum Undesirable effects on human health and environment, were defined as the most important values, and the missions of transportation managers have defined accordingly. Training, demand management and the average level of managers’ education and experience were selected respectively as the most important evaluation criteria in urban transportation measurement. Manuscript profile

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95 - The Effect Of Customer Knowledge Management Performance With Moderating Role Of Innovation Capability In Insurance Industry : A Case Study On Alborz Insurance Company
nasrin talaeefard Farhad Sanjarifard nader salehi

Abstract The general objective of this research is to identify the effects of customer knowledge flows on the performance and dimensions of innovation in organizations and to illustrate some of the important benefits of knowledge flows of customers in organizations. Wh More

Abstract The general objective of this research is to identify the effects of customer knowledge flows on the performance and dimensions of innovation in organizations and to illustrate some of the important benefits of knowledge flows of customers in organizations. Which benefits from the interaction between the external and internal environment and brings unique privileges to the organization. This research is descriptive-correlational. In this research, after identifying the factors and dimensions and indicators of variables, a researcher-made questionnaire was designed based on the Likert spectrum and distributed among 200 managers of the Alborz Insurance Company. Then performance measures and customer knowledge management, business innovation and business were categorized using structural equation analysis. Finally, the research model was evaluated using PLS software. The results of the research showed that customer knowledge management has an impact on business performance with mediating the ability to innovate in the insurance industry. Manuscript profile

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96 - The effect of risk and resources on Firm's growth strategies in high tech industries
mohsen Parsajam Bahman Hajipour Esmaeil Fadaei Nejad

During the last decade there was a well known strategy to support startups and enterprenuers to stabilish firms in high tech industries. despite the position of high-tech industries has been weakened especially in export share. Growth strategies utilized by high-tech fi More

During the last decade there was a well known strategy to support startups and enterprenuers to stabilish firms in high tech industries. despite the position of high-tech industries has been weakened especially in export share. Growth strategies utilized by high-tech firms can improve the position. Growth strategies help firms to increase their market share and sale revenues. Hence, current study aims to designate and validate growth strategies of high-tech firms. Research model has been proposed based on the extended literature, the situation of high-tech industry, and experts' views. Data is gathered by a self-administrated questionnaire and would be analyzed by structural equation modeling using SPSS 18 and LISERL 8.54. Population is managers of high-tech firms in Iran. A convenience sampling approach is employed to collect estimated sample. Data achieved from 451 respondents was analyzed. Results indicated that: 1) growth strategies of high tech firms affect their outputs, 2) resources affect growth strategies of high-tech firms, 3) multiple risks affect the utilization of resources by the high tech firms, and 4) high tech firms provide the needed resources for their growth based on the outcomes in terms of profit and/or attractiveness Manuscript profile

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97 - The Impact of Organization's capabilitis on Product Performance in the high-tech Defense Industry (Case study: Defense Electronics Industry
somayeh mehrabi gooravan ebrahim mahmoodzadeh alireza booshehri majid ramezan

High-tech defense organizations, due to specific features such as: dependence on innovation, strategic goals, reliance on applied knowledge and dynamic nature, require more attention to Capabilities that are appropriate to circumstances, including innovation capability. More

High-tech defense organizations, due to specific features such as: dependence on innovation, strategic goals, reliance on applied knowledge and dynamic nature, require more attention to Capabilities that are appropriate to circumstances, including innovation capability.Therefore, in this research, the effect of technological, product and process innovation and ambidexterity capability on the performance of defense products has been investigated. The research methodology is applied in terms of achievemen, exploratory and descriptive in terms of purpose. In order to localize the literature of the subject with the high-tech defense organizations in Iran, the Focus Group method was used. The required data in the form of a questionnaire from 58 defense organizations of the field of electronics (as a high-tech industry) Collected. Analysis of the data with the help of structural equation model (PLS SEM) has shown that the capabilities of product innovation, process innovation, ambidexterity and technology influence product performance. The research findings lead the managers of defense electronic industry to empower the organization in the field of product and process innovation, technological and ambidexterity capabilities. Manuscript profile

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98 - Business Performance Models based on Intellectual Capital Case Study: Companies Located in Zanjan Industrial Town
peyman akhavan

The aim of this study is the effect of Intellectual Capital components(human capital, relation capital, structural capital) on each other and also the relationship of these components on Business Performance. The study population were located in the industrial city of Z More

The aim of this study is the effect of Intellectual Capital components(human capital, relation capital, structural capital) on each other and also the relationship of these components on Business Performance. The study population were located in the industrial city of Zanjan and the means of data collection was Bontis questionnairy which have been used first in Malaysia, Canada and Jordan. Data analysis was performed by a software called Visual PLC. The results showed that the structrual equation model which has been used, is a strong theoretical model for the effect of intellectual capital (human capital, structural capital and relational capital) on organization’s business performance. The results of study showed that by changing in human capital, the customer capital would be changed directly and improved, but would not be able to change structuaral capital. The results of the analysis showed that all aspects of intellectual capital except human capital and structural capital have positive and significant relationship to each other and Finally, the structural capital has a significantly positive effect on the business performance. On the other hand, the results of this study showed that human capital has a positive and significant relationship with structural capital. Manuscript profile

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99 - The impact of alignment of organizational learning culture on organizational performance with the mediating role of dynamic capacity (Case Study: EPCO)
Majid Babaee Lashkami Sirous Amirghodsi علی بنیادی نایینی

The research investigates the effect of organizational processes and culture of organizational learning on organizational performance with the role of the mediator of the dynamic capacity of EPCO. Research type is descriptive. Research population is all employees of EPC More

The research investigates the effect of organizational processes and culture of organizational learning on organizational performance with the role of the mediator of the dynamic capacity of EPCO. Research type is descriptive. Research population is all employees of EPCO. Research tool is standard questionnaire of Yu Yuan Hung (2010). The results showed that there is significant relationship between the Organizational dynamic capacity and organizational performance. There's significant and positive relationship between Organizational learning culture and Organizational dynamic capacity and Organizational dynamic capacity has the mediator to the relationship between organizational learning culture and organizational performance. But, the organizational learning culture doesn’t have a significant effect on Organizational dynamic capacity and Organizational performance. Finally, Organizational dynamic capacity doesn’t have the mediator role to the relationship between organizational process alignment and organizational performance. Based on research results and verification of positive influence of organization learning culture on organizational dynamic capacity and positive relationship between dynamic capacity and organizational performance, the people in charge could substantially improve the learning level of the company. This improvement first broaden the ability of competitiveness as well as the creativity and innovation, while at the same time it enhances organizational performance by improving competitiveness ability. Manuscript profile

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100 - An Impact model of Personal Knowledge Management and Ledership Style on Organizational Performance in the Tehran Municipality
vajholla ghorbanizadeh Mohammad sadeghi

Knowledge-based age, in which knowledge, as the most important capital of organizations, requires a different managerial approach to organizational issues and employees. Therefore, influential leaders in the form of a pension will evaluate the amount of production, diss More

Knowledge-based age, in which knowledge, as the most important capital of organizations, requires a different managerial approach to organizational issues and employees. Therefore, influential leaders in the form of a pension will evaluate the amount of production, dissemination, exchange and application of knowledge among their employees in order to achieve organizational goals and improve the performance of the organization. The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of individual knowledge management and leadership style on organizational performance in Tehran municipality. The research type is descriptive-survey based on the purpose of the research and the method of data collection. The statistical population of this research is directors, advisers and expert experts of the municipality of Tehran in the highest organizational occupation (three categories) in terms of career 14 - 15 - 16 which is equal to 2467 people. The appropriate sample for this study was 332 people based on Cochran's formula. In this research, a questionnaire was used to collect data. In order to fit the conceptual model of research and hypothesis testing, structural equation modeling and LISREL software were used. The results of the research show that the variables of individual knowledge management and leadership style have a significant effect on organizational performance of Tehran municipality; also, the effect of individual knowledge management variable on approved leadership style. Manuscript profile

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101 - Explaining productive organizational energy using force field analysis
علیرضا حسین بیگی Saiedeh Nosratabadi Abbas Shoul Hossein Arman

Organizational energy is a renewable resource that is the basis for measuring organizational ‎performance whose its level and intensity can influence on employee performance. The purpose ‎of this study is to identify the factors that inhibits and forces the productive o More

Organizational energy is a renewable resource that is the basis for measuring organizational ‎performance whose its level and intensity can influence on employee performance. The purpose ‎of this study is to identify the factors that inhibits and forces the productive organizational ‎energy in the form of force field analysis. In this study, ‎‏17‏‎ experts of the office of Melli Bank ‎branch affaires were used by qualitative content analysis method. The results of this ‎exploratory study showed that the main factors of driving productive organizational energy ‎included recognition, management support, reward, and trust. The main barriers to productive ‎organizational energy were also cumbersome laws, disorder, lack of resources, and work / life ‎imbalances. The implications of these findings are discussed.‎ Manuscript profile

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102 - Investigating the Relationship between Organizational Performance Evaluation Components (Case Study: Public Sector Purchasing Organization)
Alireza Aliahmadi

The evaluation of the organizational performance is an important area in management. The significance of the performance evaluation is mainly associated with its necessity for the originations and managers. In other words, if the performance of the organization is not e More

The evaluation of the organizational performance is an important area in management. The significance of the performance evaluation is mainly associated with its necessity for the originations and managers. In other words, if the performance of the organization is not evaluated, its management is hampered. This study aims to examine the relationship between the components of organizational performance evaluation. The research population includes 30 cases chosen from the university lecturers and the elite in the fields of organizational performance evaluation, supply chain, logistics and support. The sample size was determined using the census approach. The research method was descriptive and correlational, and a self-constructed questionnaire—using the Delphi method— was used to collect the data. The validity and reliability of the scale were reported as 0.96 and 0.91, respectively. The obtained data were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics in the form of tables and figures. The data were analyzed by Smart PLS and Structural Equation Modeling. Attempts were made to examine all the factors affecting the logistic organizational performance. Therefore, six main factors and 30 minor factors in the form of 101 items were examined. The results showed that infrastructure and input, growth and learning, results and consequences, stakeholders’ satisfaction, finance and procedures were confirmed as main factors of logistic organizational performance evaluation. The model was also reported powerful according to goodness of fit indices. Manuscript profile

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103 - Investigating the Role of Supply Chain Integration in Just in Time Production and Firm Performance (Case Study: Malayer Raisin Processing Companies)
mirza hasan hosseini Mohammad Javad Azarshahi

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of supply chain integration in just in time production strategy and firm performance. This is an applied, descriptive, Survey and cross-sectional study. The population of the study was 60 Malayer raisin processing co More

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of supply chain integration in just in time production strategy and firm performance. This is an applied, descriptive, Survey and cross-sectional study. The population of the study was 60 Malayer raisin processing companies, out of which 57 were randomly selected based on Cochran formula for limited communities. The method of data collection was field survey and the instrument used was questionnaire. Structural path modeling based on partial least squares and PLS software was used to analyze the data. The findings of this study confirm the significant impact of internal integration on customer integration, supplier integration and just in time production. Evidence also showed that integration with customers and integration with suppliers had a significant impact on the firm's just in time production and performance and just in time production on firm performance. There was no evidence of a significant effect of internal integration on firm performance. Manuscript profile

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104 - (Identify the Factors Which Are Affecting to Exploit the International Entrepereuniral Opportunities in Energy Supply Businesses (Case of Study: National Iranian Gas Company
amirhooshang karami Seyed Mojtaba Sajjadi Seyedreza Hejazi asgar khademvatani

International situation of Iran for providing energy sources to other countries, particularly Gas, it requires to pay serious attention for promoting the export supply efficiency of Gas products, and identifying factors which are affecting to exploit the international o More

International situation of Iran for providing energy sources to other countries, particularly Gas, it requires to pay serious attention for promoting the export supply efficiency of Gas products, and identifying factors which are affecting to exploit the international opportunities for such companies regarding entrepreneurial approach. In this research, we try to find out these factors thru experiences and knowledge of the experts in the international Gas market. This research is qualitative and has been developed by using content analysis technique. The data was collected through open and semi-structured interviews by 15 business owners, top managers and experts of Iranian Liquefied Petroleum (LPG) export companies, which were selected by Snowball sampling method, and analyzed by content analysis encoding. According to results, the effective factors of international entrepreneurial opportunities can be categorized in four main directions: international entrepreneurial attitude, international entrepreneurial innovation and creativity, international entrepreneurial competitive distinction, and international entrepreneurial networking. Each of these four classified factors includes their own categories and subcategories which are addressed in this study. Manuscript profile

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105 - Explaining and Designing a Model of employee performance management with integrated approach in the governmental banking systems with methasynthesis and structural-interpretive method
Maryam Fahima daruosh Gholamzadeh Ahmad vedadi

This article is aimed at designing and explaining the integrated pattern of employee performance management in the country's state-owned banks. In order to achieve this goal, first the integrated categories of integrated performance management have been identified and v More

This article is aimed at designing and explaining the integrated pattern of employee performance management in the country's state-owned banks. In order to achieve this goal, first the integrated categories of integrated performance management have been identified and validated, and finally, by determining the model of causal relationships of these elements, the final model has been obtained. This research is based on empiricist philosophy and deductive-inductive method. The present study is a fundamental research in terms of purpose, and in terms of data collection method, it’s a cross-sectional research. In this research, mixed method (qualitative & quantitative) has been used. The statistical population of this article includes professors and experts with management experience in SepahBank and has been used to sample the method of bullet and snow. The sampling process continued until theoretical saturation was achieved, and finally 11 managers of the central offices of SepahBank participated in this study. To identify the infrastructural categories of employee performance management, a metasynthesis method has been used and by using interpretive-structural modeling, an integrated staff performance management model has been presented. Data analysis was performed with MaxQda and MicMac software. The results show that among integrated management structures, performance, planning and targeting and organizational culture have high penetration power and have low effectiveness. So the variables are independent. The two variables of knowledge management and coaching have high penetration power and dependency, so they are transferable variables. Employee performance management variables and performance analysis and revision are also highly dependent but have little influence, so they are dependent variables. Manuscript profile

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106 - The Effect of Green Supply Chain Management Practices on Performance and Competitiveness in a Chadormaloo Iron Ore Mine
seyyed morteza ghayour niloofar nejati yazdi nejad amir ghafourian shagerdi

Because green practices are very common in industrial environments and have affected on performance.The present study investigates the effect of green supply chain management measures on performance and competitiveness in Chadormelo iron ore mine. This research is appl More

Because green practices are very common in industrial environments and have affected on performance.The present study investigates the effect of green supply chain management measures on performance and competitiveness in Chadormelo iron ore mine. This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-survey in terms of analytical method. The statistical population of this study is the managers and organizational experts of Chadormelo Iron Ore Company (317 people), of which 180 people were selected as a sample by simple random sampling method.Data collection tools were a localized questionnaire based on the research of Yang et al. (2013) and Younes et al. (2016).The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by the validity criterion and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient.Structural equation modeling and PLS software were used to analyze the data.The test of research hypotheses with the help of structural equation modeling showed that internal measures and external collaborations of green supply chain management are related to green performance and competitiveness of the company.Also, the relationship between both green supply chain management departments and the company's social performance was confirmed.On the other hand, the relationship between competitiveness and corporate social performance was positive and significant.In addition, the mediating role of competitiveness in the relationship between green supply chain management and social performance was only confirmed in terms of internal measures and external participation.Finally, it can be said that internal measures and external partnerships of green supply chain management in Chadormelo Company strengthen the company's social performance. Manuscript profile

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107 - Compilation of structural model, dimensions of organizational performance, opportunities, threats, weakness and strength, social security organization
ommolbanin gilan bagher sarokhani seyedmohamad seyedmirzaei

The Social Security Administration, as the largest provider of social security in the country, is constantly interacting with the internal and external environment. Therefore, understanding this process leads to a kind of programming based on a realistic view of the dim More

The Social Security Administration, as the largest provider of social security in the country, is constantly interacting with the internal and external environment. Therefore, understanding this process leads to a kind of programming based on a realistic view of the dimensions of organizational performance. The purpose of the present study is to provide a structural model of organizational performance dimensions based on environmental changes and opportunities, threats and weaknesses in the organization. This research is based on data type, quantitative and purpose, applied research and method, descriptive correlation and specifically structural equation model. The statistical population of the present study are experts of the Social Security Organization with 13 people and the employees were selected according to the 9 variables observed in the model. Allocation of coefficient 30 with more than 300 estimates in a simple random method was done with equal chance. SPSS software analysis methods and statistical tools have been used to analyze the research data. The results show that the paths of opportunities, strengths, weaknesses and threats have a significant and direct effect on organizational performance and also the values obtained from the coefficient of determination indicate a significant level of effect, which has the greatest effect on strengths and the least effect. Manuscript profile

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108 - Model building of Banking Network based on Marketing Innovation and Technological Innovation for Assessing of National Macroeconomic Performance
Bahareh Behzadi mohammadreza hamidizadeh Maryam Khoshnevis

The present time, the basis of entrepreneurship and value creation is innovation, as well as the provision of high value-added banking services. Thus, those are the main factors in the development of the banking network and improving the competitive advantage and perfor More

The present time, the basis of entrepreneurship and value creation is innovation, as well as the provision of high value-added banking services. Thus, those are the main factors in the development of the banking network and improving the competitive advantage and performance of banks. Therefore, the aim’ paper is to model marketing and technological innovation variables based on the performance of the macroeconomic to explain their innovation functions in the country's banking network. To achieve this aim, by constructing a main hypothesis and four sub-hypotheses, the structural interaction of technological innovation behaviors and marketing innovation of ten selected banks on the macroeconomic performance of the country during the period 2009 to 2018 investigated. This research type is applied one in terms of purpose and in terms of nature, type of data and their collection method, is a causal based on econometrics techniques and analytical descriptive by regarding generalized system torque technique. In this study, the variables of economic growth and total value of exports, dependent variables and variables of technological innovation and marketing innovation of the banking network evaluated with the role of explaining economic performance. According to the research results, technological innovation with a positive effect of 0.09% and the variable of marketing innovation with a positive effect of 0.54% increase economic growth, as well as technological innovation with a positive effect of 0.08% and marketing innovation with a positive effect of 0.07%. Total exports have increased in the banking network. Therefore, technological innovation and marketing innovation have had a significant effect on economic growth and the value of the country's total exports. Therefore, five research hypotheses according to the function of banks and data conditions confirmed. Manuscript profile

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109 - The effect of external pressures and internal motivation on the company's performance with regard to the role of acceptance of green supply chain management in the dairy industry
Mohamad Taghi Taghavi fard AMIR MOHAMMAD KHANI

Despite the interest of prospective managers and researchers, the implementation of green supply chain management in the country's dairy industry has not been satisfactory. The real challenge for the country's managers is to prioritize the implementation of green supply More

Despite the interest of prospective managers and researchers, the implementation of green supply chain management in the country's dairy industry has not been satisfactory. The real challenge for the country's managers is to prioritize the implementation of green supply chain management to achieve the best possible advantage in the implementation of green supply chain management in the country's dairy industry. In this paper, the effect of external pressures and internal motivation on the company's performance with respect to the role of acceptance of green supply chain management in the dairy industry. The statistical population of the study is dairy companies in Iran in which 82 managers of the company were analyzed as a sample. The non-probability and available sampling method and data collection tool was a questionnaire. Structural equation modeling and SmartPLS software were used to analyze the data. The research findings show that market pressures and suppliers are effective in accepting green supply chain management in the dairy industry. In addition, it was found that the adoption of green supply chain management in the dairy industry has an impact on environmental, operational and economic performance. However, the effect of controlling pressures on the acceptance of green supply chain management in the dairy industry was not confirmed. The research results highlight the managerial commitment and the key role of suppliers in the successful adoption of green supply chain management Manuscript profile

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110 - Managing the formation of Habermas public domain theory in Instagram and Telegram social networks
Ali asadnzhad Ali Jabari Nahid Kordi

The aim of the present study is to manage the formation of Habermas public domain theory in Instagram and Telegram social networks. The research method is field survey and survey. This research is a descriptive research in terms of the purpose of applied research. In th More

The aim of the present study is to manage the formation of Habermas public domain theory in Instagram and Telegram social networks. The research method is field survey and survey. This research is a descriptive research in terms of the purpose of applied research. In this research, after conducting library studies and complete and comprehensive compilation of theoretical literature and research background, a questionnaire has been designed and compiled in line with research related theories and research questions and hypotheses and distributed among the respondents. The statistical population of this research consists of the audience (cyberspace users) whose number is estimated at 8,674.621 million and according to Cochran's formula, its statistical sample is equal to 384 people. Therefore, in this research, by following this formula, 384 people have completed a questionnaire as a statistical sample. Using purposive non-random sampling method, the study sample was selected and the research data were analyzed by Pearson correlation method. The results showed that the highest impact in the first place of Internet access (β = 0.42), the second time of logical and rational critique of political, economic, social and cultural issues in social networks (Telegram and Instagram), respectively (= 0.39 b) The third time, the audience had a two-way and free conversation (all) with government officials on social networks (Telegram and Instagram) (β = 0.38). The fourth time, they used social networks (Telegram and Instagram) (β = 0.17). Manuscript profile

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111 - A performance-based State Universities of Iran: a qualitative study of requirements and ‎barriers of performance-based funding According to principal-agent theory
zargham faramarzi nia حمید فرهادی راد Yadollah ‎ Mehralizadeh‎ Rahamatolah Gholipor sute

In Iran, Higher education policymakers, want universities to be accountable for their funding ‎and ‎spend it on activities and actions that bring the most social achievement. Therefore, in recent ‎years, ‎public higher education in Iran has shifted from budgeting based More

In Iran, Higher education policymakers, want universities to be accountable for their funding ‎and ‎spend it on activities and actions that bring the most social achievement. Therefore, in recent ‎years, ‎public higher education in Iran has shifted from budgeting based on input indicators ‎to ‎performance-based funding‏.‏‎ This model, which has become widespread in the world in the ‎last ‎decade, has requirements and presuppositions and may face obstacles in its implementation‏;‏‎ ‎So ‎the main issue of this study is to identify and explain performance-based requirements ‎and ‎obstacles at the Iranian state University to principal-agent theory‏.‏‎ A qualitative approach ‎based ‎on grounded theory was used‏.‏‎ Participants were selected based on the network method ‎‎(snowball) ‎from two networks of senior policymakers and operators‏.‏‎ Among the internal policymakers, semi-‎structured individuals have been conducted with10 managers of universities, the ‎Ministry of ‎Science, Research and Technology (ATF). Also among the effective external policymakers, Depth ‎interviews were conducted with 9 cases from the Ministry of Economic Affairs ‎and Finance and ‎the Management and Planning Organization, financial managers and faculty ‎members specializing ‎in budgeting. the constant presence of the researcher in the field of activity ‎continued until the ‎theoretical saturation‏.‏‎ Data from interviews were analyzed with qualitative content ‎analysis and ‎coding method of Strauss and Corbin (2006) and validity of researchers findings ‎compared by the ‎expert‏.‏‎ The results showed that to implement the performance-based ‎approach, the government and ‎the university must provide requirements at three levels: macro levels ‎‎(government), micro level ‎‎(university), and inter-organizational level(government-university interaction) ‎and remove ‎obstacles‏.‏‎ The most important requirements at the government level were the ‎expansion of the ‎authority and freedom of universities and the involvement of senior managers ‎and elites of public ‎universities in the design and implementation phase of this model. The most ‎important obstacle for ‎the government was the intervention of political parties and interest ‎groups‏.‏‎ At the university level, ‎the most important requirements included the formulation of ‎strategic planning and prioritizing and ‎welcoming the university to reform its organizational, ‎educational, research, and service processes‏.‏‎ ‎The most important obstacle in the university was the ‎resistance of the directors and members of ‎the faculty and the unpreparedness of the university ‎to implement the plan‏.‏‎ At the inter-‎organizational level, the government and the university must, ‎through effective participation and ‎interaction, provide requirements such as the agreement between ‎the government and the university ‎on performance indicators and monitoring and evaluation of ‎the performance indicators‏.‏‎ Also at ‎this level, the most important obstacle was the unbalanced ‎and distrustful relationship between the ‎university and the government‏.‏ Manuscript profile

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112 - An Investigation into the impact of Inter-university resource allocation mechanisms on educational and research performance of departments in Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz
Farzane Ghasemi Masoud Khodapanah Mohammad Reza Akhound

The main purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of internal financial resource allocation mechanisms on the educational and research performance of departments. Present study could be classified as a theoretical-applied research in terms of objectiv More

The main purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of internal financial resource allocation mechanisms on the educational and research performance of departments. Present study could be classified as a theoretical-applied research in terms of objectives and descriptive-analytic as well as correlational in terms of methodology. Shahid Chamran University was selected as the statistical population and all the required data concerning faculties and departments was collected. In order to collect the required data in the time domain of 2010-2013, documents and records held by different units of the university were scrutinized and reviewed. For data analysis, descriptive statistics tables including average growth rates, means, standard deviations and correlation coefficients were developed while to determine the relationships between variables and fit regression models of interest, inferential statistics and multilevel modelling methods were used. The results show that: (1) values do not have the same structure and homogeneity and there is a dissonance between time units and departments. The calculated statistics for research performance (ρ=0.68) and academic performance (ρ=0.52) indicates the necessity of using multilevel modeling. 2) Managerial and educational performance of the departments per faculty member during the study period has encountered some fluctuations and the general trend of these indices has been increasing 3) each department has experienced an individual trend. 4) The mechanisms of financial resource allocation significantly affect educational and research performances of the departments. Manuscript profile

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113 - Provide a model of innovative behaviors as cultural artifacts
Dr. Morteza Moradi Rabeah Zandipak

Innovation is the key to economic development; Therefore, consideration of processes and policies that support innovation should be considered. The purpose of this study is to investigate innovative policies, attitudes and behaviors, considering the changes in the marke More

Innovation is the key to economic development; Therefore, consideration of processes and policies that support innovation should be considered. The purpose of this study is to investigate innovative policies, attitudes and behaviors, considering the changes in the market and technology in knowledge-based companies, technology and growth centers. The research is applied in terms of purpose, descriptive-survey in terms of nature and method. To test the hypotheses, a 78-item questionnaire according to the 5-point Likert scale was used. The statistical population of the study is 600 people employed in more than 180 knowledge-based companies, technology and service growth centers located in the Science and Technology Park of Hamadan province. The sample size is 234 people who have been selected based on Krejcie and Morgan table and one questionnaire has been analyzed from each company. Using Spss software, Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated and confirmatory factor analysis was used to evaluate the validity of the structure using Lisrel software. In order to analyze the findings, the path analysis model was used and for the analysis of the mediating variable, the Sobel test was used and for the analysis of the moderator variable, the modified multiple regression test method was used. The results showed that the values supporting innovation, innovative behaviors and innovation norms can have a direct and indirect positive and significant effect on the agility and performance of the company. The results of the mustard test and the adjusted multiple regression test (moderator) indicated that the company's agility plays the role of the mediator variable and technology and market turbulence the role of the moderator variable in the relationship between other variables. Manuscript profile

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114 - Presenting a Model to Improve the Performance of Government Organizations with Emphasis on Innovation and Organizational Values: An Interpretive Structural Modeling Approach
Ismail Ghaderifar Mir Hadi Moazen Jamshidi abbasali Arfa

The purpose of this study is to provide a model to improve the performance of government organizations with an emphasis on innovation and organizational values. The participant of the study consists of university professors and experts in the field of study who have bee More

The purpose of this study is to provide a model to improve the performance of government organizations with an emphasis on innovation and organizational values. The participant of the study consists of university professors and experts in the field of study who have been selected by purposive sampling. Finally, 10 university professors and experts, including managers and experts in the field of organization, answered the questions. Experts in this study were people who had at least 15 years of experience in studying, teaching or working in the field of government organizations and organizational performance. Sampling continued until the theoretical saturation stage. Also, to determine the reliability of the measuring instrument, the value of ICC coefficient in terms of compatibility and absolute agreement was approved. Interpretive structural modeling approach using Matlab software was used to analyze the data. The results showed that the staff empowerment factor in relation to the research topic and presenting an effective model in order to improve and enhance the performance of government organizations has the highest impact and the least impact and this factor has been targeted as a variable of this research. Also, the research findings showed that the transformational leadership factor has the most impact and the least impact in the current model from other components. This factor is due to high conductivity and low dependence of influential variables or in other words stimuli Manuscript profile

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115 - Performance Analysis of Subband Adaptive Algorithms over Distributed Networks Based on Incremental Strategy
Mohammad S. E. Abadi A. R. Danaee M. S. Shafiee

This paper presents the problem of distributed estimation in an incremental network based on the family of normalized subband adaptive algorithms (NSAAs). The distributed NSAA (dNSAA), the distributed selective partial update NSAA (dSPU-NSAA), the distributed dynamic se More

This paper presents the problem of distributed estimation in an incremental network based on the family of normalized subband adaptive algorithms (NSAAs). The distributed NSAA (dNSAA), the distributed selective partial update NSAA (dSPU-NSAA), the distributed dynamic selection NSAA (dDS-NSAA), and the dSPU-DS-NSAA are introduced in a unified way. The dNSAAs have better convergence speed than distributed normalized least mean square (dNLMS) algorithm especially for colored Gaussian input of the nodes. In comparison with dNSAA, the dSPU-NSAA, and dDS-NSAA have lower computational complexity and close performance to dNSAA. Also by combination of these algorithms, the dSPU-DS-NSAA is established which is computationally efficient. In addition, a unified approach for mean-square performance analysis of each individual node is presented. This approach can be used to establish a performance analysis of classical distributed adaptive algorithms as well. The theoretical expressions for transient, and steady-state performance analysis of the various dNSAAs are introduced. The validity of the theoretical results, and the good performance of these algorithms are demonstrated by several computer simulations. Manuscript profile

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116 - High Performance Computing via Improvement of Random Forest Algorithm Using Compression and Parallelization Techniques
Naeimeh Mohammad Karimi Mohammad Ghasemzadeh Mahdi Yazdian Dehkordi Amin Nezarat

This research seeks to promote one of the widely being used algorithms in machine learning, known as the random forest algorithm. For this purpose, we use compression and parallelization techniques. The main challenge we address in this research is about application of More

This research seeks to promote one of the widely being used algorithms in machine learning, known as the random forest algorithm. For this purpose, we use compression and parallelization techniques. The main challenge we address in this research is about application of the random forest algorithm in processing and analyzing big data. In such cases, this algorithm does not show the usual and required performance, due to the needed large number of memory access. This research demonstrates how we can achieve the desired goal by using an innovative compression method, along with parallelization techniques. In this regard, the same components of the trees in the random forest are combined and shared. Also, a vectorization-based parallelization approach, along with a shared-memory-based parallelization method, are used in the processing phase. In order to evaluate its performance, we run it on the Kaggle benchmarks, which are being used widely in machine learning competitions. The experimental results show that contribution of the proposed compression method, could reduce 61% of the required processing time; meanwhile, application of the compression along with the named parallelization methods could lead to about 95% of improvement. Overall, this research implies that the proposed solution can provide an effective step toward high performance computing. Manuscript profile

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117 - High Speed and Low Static Power Scan Cell Design in CMOS 22 nm
P. Zakian R. Niaraki Asli

One of the popular methods in design for testability (DFT) is scan design which leads on increase observability and controllability in circuit nodes. In this paper, we present a scan cell design which decreases the number of transistors, improves PDP and decreases energ More

One of the popular methods in design for testability (DFT) is scan design which leads on increase observability and controllability in circuit nodes. In this paper, we present a scan cell design which decreases the number of transistors, improves PDP and decreases energy usage. The first proposed design is an optimized version of integrated low power gating scan cell, and the main idea of this design is reducing leakage current in the part of the circuit which is not used. Also, this design has the ability of reducing the propagation delay due to decreasing output parasitic capacitance. In the second proposed design, the scan cell is designed for controlling in pull down part of the inverter at slave latch so that static power consumption is diminished when current path is cut in unnecessary position. Simulations are carried out in 22 nm PTM technology CMOS by Hspice software. The results show that the proposed designs are superior to the previous designs considering propagation delay which is decreased, and enhanced static power consumption. Manuscript profile

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118 - A New Method for Performance Evaluation of Wind Turbines and Wind Farms Using Extended Capacity Factor – Case Study of Manjil Wind Farm
Hamed Delkhosh Mostafa Parniani

Nowadays, with the increasing share of wind power in electrical energy sector, performance evaluation indices are of great importance. Such indices can lead to optimal utilization of invested capital and effective development of existing wind farms. Despite having some More

Nowadays, with the increasing share of wind power in electrical energy sector, performance evaluation indices are of great importance. Such indices can lead to optimal utilization of invested capital and effective development of existing wind farms. Despite having some of the required characteristics, the capacity factor based on traditional definition has some limitation. This study aims to extend the concept of capacity factor and presents a comprehensive formulation in order to calculate this index using measured and simulated data for one turbine, all turbines connected to a feeder or a busbar, and all turbines of a wind farm. This formulation also provides a framework for calculating the capacity factor in various time periods (annual, seasonal, monthly, etc.) and different time slots (all hours, special hours, hourly, etc.). As a case study, performance of the installed wind turbines in Manjil wind farm is investigated over an operation period using both measured and simulated data. Performance evaluation of the farm is also carried out with a newer variable speed type. Moreover, capacity factors of the feeders, busbars, and the entire farm are calculated using the turbines simulated data as well as measured data of the feeders over an operation period, and various results of exploring the obtained capacity factors are presented. Numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of newly presented method for the performance evaluation of wind turbines and wind farms based on extended concept of capacity factor. Manuscript profile

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119 - Impact of Training for Authentic Leadership Behaviors on Enhancement of Employees’ Performance
Nasrin Arshadi Mohammad فروهر

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of training for positive leadership behaviors of managers on job performance of employees. The experimental research design was through pre-test and post-test with control group. The participants were 42 man More

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of training for positive leadership behaviors of managers on job performance of employees. The experimental research design was through pre-test and post-test with control group. The participants were 42 managers in NIPC who were selected by random sampling method and then divided randomly in experimental and control groups (each 21 employees). Furthermore in order to evaluate the impact of educational programs, 2 to 3 employees per manager were randomly selected then a pre-test was tested on control groups. After 3 days (20 hours training) educational interventions related to the main treatment were performed on managers and after 6 months the experimental test have been done on control groups. Data has been collected by using from two questioners: authentic leadership questionnaire (by Walumbwa and et al, 2008) and job performance questionnaire (by Heilman and et al, 2000(. Data analysis with ANCOVA indicated that the training of positive leadership behaviors of managers increases employees’ job performance. Manuscript profile

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120 - Electronic Performance Support System as a New Solution for Supporting Employee Performance in Organizations: Presenting a Framework for its Design
kiumars taghipour hashem fardanesh

In recent years, the use of Electronic Performance Support Systems (EPSS) has become common to improve the performance of employees in organizations. The appropriate design of this new method has definitely a major role in its effectiveness and efficiency. Therefore, th More

In recent years, the use of Electronic Performance Support Systems (EPSS) has become common to improve the performance of employees in organizations. The appropriate design of this new method has definitely a major role in its effectiveness and efficiency. Therefore, the current study was conducted with the aim of providing a framework for the design of EPSS. Qualitative content analysis method of deductive type was used in this study. The study population consisted of all the relevant sources and articles indexed in databases such as, Proquest, Springer, Science Direct, Emerald, EBSCO, Sage, Eric, and Google Scholar. Sampling from these sources was conducted with the purposeful sampling method, 45 papers and books were evaluated according to the target criteria, and to form the proposed framework, the obtained data were combined. As a result of this study, seven principles were identified in order to comply with EPSS as follows: career context, user interface, assessment and monitoring, access to resources of performance support, adaptability, prompt response, and usability. In addition, strategies for operating them were presented, and finally the framework was presented in order to show how to apply these principles and strategies in the design of EPSS. The results of this study can be a guide for EPSS designers in the selection and provision of efficient and effective performance support system to improve the employee performance of the organization. Manuscript profile

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121 - Analysis of the Impact of Intellectual Capital on Organizational Performance with the Mediating Role of Knowledge Management in Iranian Oil Terminals Company
Elham Nowrouzi cheshmeh ali SeyedAligholi Rowshan Milad Vafadar

Nowadays, the performance of organizations cannot be judged solely on the basis of financial criteria, because research has shown that the market value of companies and financial institutions is mainly non-financial assets to which assets intangible or intellectual capi More

Nowadays, the performance of organizations cannot be judged solely on the basis of financial criteria, because research has shown that the market value of companies and financial institutions is mainly non-financial assets to which assets intangible or intellectual capital. This study is tended to identify the dimensions of intellectual capital and knowledge management and their impact on organizational performance in IOTC. This research has been done by using a descriptive analyzing method. The population sample in this study was the managerial members of the company (managers and supervisors) which included 214 individuals at the time, and was conducted by a census method, the structural equation modeling is utilized for data analyzing. The results of data analysis indicate that the proposed model has a suitable fitness. In this model, human capital (HC), structural capital (SC) and relational capital (RC) had positive effect on organization performance, and also these components have indirect positive effect as a mediating role of knowledge management on organization performance, which the impact of each factor has been specified and ranked; then some suggestions have been made accordingly. Manuscript profile

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122 - Investigating the Effect of Implementation of Interactive Mobile Learning System on Personal Performance of Drivers
Ghasemali Bazaee Hasan Asadzadeh

The use of information and communication technology tools has provided new solutions to the development and improvement of the educational system, which is an e-learning and mobile learning outcome. Among the important issues of the education sector in the railways are More

The use of information and communication technology tools has provided new solutions to the development and improvement of the educational system, which is an e-learning and mobile learning outcome. Among the important issues of the education sector in the railways are certain conditions for some occupations, including operation, fleet, track, communications, and signaling, which diminish the possibility of their presence in specific periods of time. This research was carried out using a semi-experimental research and a pretest-posttest with the control group. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of interactive mobile learning system on the personal performance of drivers. In order to investigate the research problem and hypothesis testing, a quasi-experimental research method was used and a pre-test post-test design with the control group was used. The groups were selected through a purposeful sampling method from drivers in Tehran station and randomly divided into experimental and control groups. The statistical population consisted of all locomotives in Tehran station with 420 people. Purposefully, 45 people were selected as a sample of their job burnout score in their personal performance component below 32. Using random sampling method and randomly divided into three groups of 15, two groups of participants with adult education (andragogy) and interactive mobile learning system (IMLS) with a heutagogy approach and a control group. According to the test results, learning by interactive learning method was effective in increasing the frequency and intensity of the individual performance of the drivers. Manuscript profile

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123 - Designing a Performance Management Model with a Human Resources Development Approach in the Public Sector
Mohammad mohammadi

Over the past few decades, the implementation and application of performance management methods to improve service provision and the acquisition of key impacts have been key elements in the development of human resources development in governments. Considering the state More

Over the past few decades, the implementation and application of performance management methods to improve service provision and the acquisition of key impacts have been key elements in the development of human resources development in governments. Considering the state of the country's administrative system regarding performance management for the development of human resources and considering that the model being implemented today does not have the ability to properly assess employees, the main objective of this research is to design a model of performance management with the approach of HR development in the administrative sector was considered. This research has been implemented with qualitative content analysis method in the field of model extraction and based on a field survey to evaluate it, which led to the design of performance management model for human resource development in government agencies. The main dimensions of this model include the impact of human capital strategy on organizational strategy and reference laws; the coordination of accountability process; the relationship of responsibility and authority with employee performance appraisal; the impact of evaluation strategies on the process of employee performance evaluation; the existence of a significant relationship between the individual characteristics of employees and their evaluation process; Finally, the effect of the relationship of labor relations on employee performance management. Manuscript profile

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124 - The Barriers of Effective Managerial Coaching When Facing Employees' Unsatisfactory Performance in a Data Center Services Unit
Golnoosh Sharifan Seyyed Babak Alavi

The purpose of this research was identifying the barriers of effective managerial coaching and their mechanisms of influence when "a manager faces the employee's unsatisfactory performance" in a data center services unit. The research was carried out using the grounded More

The purpose of this research was identifying the barriers of effective managerial coaching and their mechanisms of influence when "a manager faces the employee's unsatisfactory performance" in a data center services unit. The research was carried out using the grounded theory strategy. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews with eighteen people comprising eight managers and ten employees, using theoretical sampling. Five barriers were identified one of which is a contextual characteristic of data center industry and its influence on coaching in that industry was not studied before. Two other barriers were not identified in previous studies either. The core category of the identified barriers is that sometimes the manger or the employee, ignore the unsatisfactory performance situation as a coaching situation. The mechanisms of influence of barriers were not found in the literature but in this study, three mechanisms were identified. First, they prevent manager from coaching behavior. Second, they prevent employee’s learning despite manager’s coaching behavior. Third, they weaken the employee-manager work relationship despite manager’s coaching behavior. Three solutions are suggested to data center service providers. First, employees and managers can take the situations of unsatisfactory performance as an appropriate opportunity for coaching by enhancement of their self awareness and mindfulness such that they consciously recognize the suitable moments for coaching. The organization should also promote the supportive approach of managers when they react to the employee’s unsatisfactory performance. Second, the human resource specialists and managers should help the employees develop required non-technical competencies. Third, the human resource specialists should help the managers learn how to motivate their employees and mechanisms of employee motivation for learning should be designed in the organization. Manuscript profile

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125 - Recognition of the Performance Gap Model in Iran's Social Security Organization in order to Approach Shift in Conventional Training
Mohammad salehi Shervin Mashayekhi Taraneh Enayati

The purpose of this study was to identify the dimensions and components of the performance gap in the social security organization. The main method of this study was survey method. Data collection by questionnaire and the analysis is done with the help of PLS software. More

The purpose of this study was to identify the dimensions and components of the performance gap in the social security organization. The main method of this study was survey method. Data collection by questionnaire and the analysis is done with the help of PLS software. The statistical population of the study includes all employees of different levels of social security organization that 395 of them were selected randomly as the sample. Data collected through exploratory factor analysis were analyzed and then finalized the reliance on the confirmatory factor analysis; The research findings indicate that the "performance gap" can be explained in three dimensions: leadership style, work environment, and manpower management; Based on the findings in the first dimension, the components of the "strategic approach", "interactive and transparent work environment", " "style of authority" and "feedback from stakeholders", the components of second dimension are, "performance management", "recruitment and appointment system", "the effectiveness of job incentive tools", "effective training", "compensation system" and "specialized knowledge , and Finally, the components of the third dimension are, "moral and informational discipline", "participatory culture" and "knowledge-based" were confirmed. In this way, while developing the final model of the performance gap in the Social Security Organization, and the provided model had a good fit in terms of the experts' perspective with a strong 0.6 value. Manuscript profile

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126 - Designing an Individual Human Resources Development Plan and Elaboration of its Role in the Organizational Performance (Case Study: Social Security Organization, Tehran Branch)
Naeimeh Tazakori Mohammad Feizi Mohammad Rouhi Eisalou Eshagh Rasouli

The study is of the basic-applied research type that uses a combined exploratory research method. The study population is comprised of 16 human resources development experts and social security organization’s managers in the qualitative section and 351 staff members wor More

The study is of the basic-applied research type that uses a combined exploratory research method. The study population is comprised of 16 human resources development experts and social security organization’s managers in the qualitative section and 351 staff members working in social security organization as the study sample volume in the quantitative section. Purposive sampling was the method of choice in the qualitative section and simple randomized sampling was utilized in the quantitative part. The data collection instrument was semi-structured interviews in the qualitative section and Heresy and Goldsmith’s organizational performance questionnaire and a researcher-constructed human resources development questionnaire in the quantitative section. To analyze the data in the qualitative section, use was made of NVivo11 in the qualitative section and SPSS19 was employed in the quantitative section. The data analysis method included a qualitative grounded theory method (open, pivotal and selective coding) and Pearson correlation and simultaneous regression in the quantitative section. The study results resulted in the formation of an individual HR development pattern in the qualitative section for Tehran’s social security organization; in the quantitative section, the effect of the pattern on the organizational performance was investigated and the results signified the positive effect of the individual HR development on the organizational performance. The present study’s findings can offer applied and operational implications in line with individual HR development and organizational performance improvement in social security organization. Manuscript profile

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127 - Comparison of the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Three Methods: Electronic training, Electronic Performance Support System, and Combination of Electronic Training with Electronic Performance Support System to Improve Employee Performance (Case Study: Employees of Day Insurance Company)
Marjan Zahedian Hashem Fardanesh Javad Hatami kiumars taghipour

The purpose of the present study was to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of three methods: training, electronic support system, the combination of training and electronic performance support system, for improving performance and increasing employee efficiency. T More

The purpose of the present study was to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of three methods: training, electronic support system, the combination of training and electronic performance support system, for improving performance and increasing employee efficiency. The research method was semi-experimental, and the post-test with the control group was used to measure the performance and efficiency of the staff. The statistical population in this research was 570 insurance agents of the Day insurance company throughout the country. Among them, 60 insurance agents were selected by cluster sampling method and randomly divided into three groups: "Electronic training," "Electronic Performance Support System" And "Combination of electronic training and electronic performance support system.” A questionnaire was designed with the help of subject specialists to measure the actual performance of the participants. Content validity was used to determine the validity of the questionnaire, and the reliability of the sculptors (correlation coefficient was 0.79) was used to assess the reliability of the questionnaire. To measure the efficiency (amount of time spent completing the job task), the arrival time of the insurance agents to the Electronic Performance Support System and the moment of their departure from this environment is estimated. The collected data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance and post hoc tests. The results of the data analysis showed that the insurance agents who participated in the "Combination of Electronic training and the Electronic Performance Support System" group had better performance compared to the insurance agents in the other two groups, and they did their job activity in a shorter time. Manuscript profile

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128 - A Model of Talent Search for Faculty Members in Comprehensive Universities with Regional Performance Level based on Human Resources Development Strategies (A Case Study: Lorestan University)
unes romiani Khodayar abili javad porkarimi saeid frahbakhsh

Talent management is one of approaches that could assure the universities that competent and talented individuals could receive appropriate job positions and focuses on the significance of managing people and situations at different organizational levels. The current re More

Talent management is one of approaches that could assure the universities that competent and talented individuals could receive appropriate job positions and focuses on the significance of managing people and situations at different organizational levels. The current research was conducted with the aim of designing a model of talent search for academic staff members in comprehensive universities with regional performance level based on the principles of human resources development. The research method of this study was applied in terms of purpose and exploratory in terms of data collection. In the qualitative phase, the statistical population consisted of academic and executive experts, 19 of whom were purposefully selected and interviewed in a semi-structured manner. In the quantitative part, the statistical population included all the academic staff members of Lorestan University, (n=307) and 110 individuals were selected as a sample using stratified random sampling. The tool of data collection in the qualitative part was semi-structured interviews and in the quantitative part two researcher-made questionnaires used for the purpose of accreditation and validation of the exploratory model. The results showed that the educational component (scientific mastery, effective teaching, learning), the research component (application of knowledge, research ability, scientific writing and publication, analysis), and the consulting component (consulting business environments, consulting students and advice to the community) constitute the main dimensions of the model, in addition, the results of the t-test in the validation section of the model indicated that all components have sufficient validity to be included in the final model. Furthermore, the findings of the research revealed that all observable and immediate variables had a factor load higher than 0.70 on their current variable; therefore, it was significant at the 0.01 level. Manuscript profile

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129 - A Model of Performance Coaching Competency for Supervisors and Managers(Case: NIOc))
Ali Sotudeh Parivash Jaafari Amir hosein Mohammad davoudi

The aim of the present research is to put forward a model for Performance Coaching Competency regarding supervisors and managers in NIOC. This research is a heuristic inquiry with a pragmatic purpose wherein we have utilized the qualitative and quantitative data collect More

The aim of the present research is to put forward a model for Performance Coaching Competency regarding supervisors and managers in NIOC. This research is a heuristic inquiry with a pragmatic purpose wherein we have utilized the qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis approaches .Data analysis strategy in qualitative inquiry comprises literature content analysis, interview and Delphi survey questionnaires analyses, Moreover, purposive sampling is applied in qualitative research inquiries. The sample size, in literature based upon data saturation and semi-structured interview, were 12 subjects and in Delphi method were 20 subjects of experts, people in charge, and managers familiar with performance coaching in NIOC. The questionnaires face validity was obtained via pilot implementation, the interview reliability via Double-coded Agreement Coefficient .The sample size, in ANP Method were 20 subjects of experts. Key concepts in the literature and semi-structured interviews were primarily extracted and then combined into 16 components on common grounds. Delphi questionnaires in two stages and then ANP questionnaire were made and implemented respectively. The literature data and the interview analyses were done inductively via MAXQDA software, Delphi Questionnaires via SPSS, ANP Questionnaire via MATLAB (for measuring the weight and importance of the dimensions and indicators) and Super Decision (for investigating the relation between dimensions and indicators and their mutual influence). Data analyses resulted in recommending a model for performance coaching which comprises 15 components and 56 indicators in three dimensions, namely: individual, organizational, and managerial; while expressing the ranking among indicators and their internal influence. Manuscript profile

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130 - Explaining the Multilevel Model of Consequences of Organizational Coaching
Shadi Jaldani Faraj Allah Rahimi Reza Salehi

Aim: This study investigates the impact of organizational coaching on cynicism and job performance with a multilevel approach. Methods: The research method is descriptive-survey. The statistical population of this study included all employees of petrochemical companies More

Aim: This study investigates the impact of organizational coaching on cynicism and job performance with a multilevel approach. Methods: The research method is descriptive-survey. The statistical population of this study included all employees of petrochemical companies in Mahshahr Special Economic Zone. Through a sample size formula in limited societies, 245 people were randomly selected from 18 companies and questionnaires were distributed among these employees. Smart PLS software and HLM software were used for data analysis. At the individual level, the results showed that cynicism had a significant negative effect on job performance. Results: The results of multilevel analysis showed that coaching at the organizational level had a significant and negative effect on organizational cynicism at the individual level and a positive and significant effect on job performance. In this study, the moderating role of Multilevel coaching on the relationship between cynicism and job performance was confirmed. Conclusion: It seems that organizational coaching and strengthening it in the organization reduces organizational pessimism and improves employee job performance. Manuscript profile

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131 - Designing a Hybrid Model Based on Mick McFuzzy Approaches and Network Analysis Process to Evaluate the Indicators of Coaching Competencies in Tejarat Bank
Seyedeh Zobeideh Falaki Kolori Sirous Tadbiri Ali Reza Afsharnejad Maryam Majidi

10.52547/istd.31344.8.30.334

by using coaching skills. However, there is no research or literature on which of the factors of coaching competencies will provide the greatest improvement in individual and organizational performance for these organizations, especially banks. The present study, which More

by using coaching skills. However, there is no research or literature on which of the factors of coaching competencies will provide the greatest improvement in individual and organizational performance for these organizations, especially banks. The present study, which is an applied development in terms of purpose or orientation, in order to meet this challenge, comprehensively and systematically all the indicators that are effective in the field of coaching competencies through documentary study and using fuzzy Delphi method and Opinion of 10 experts Identifying and using interpretive structural modeling / Mick McFuzzy approach to regulate and direct the complexity of relationships between indicators and network analysis process method to identify indicators that improve performance in the field The coaching skills they bring to Tejarat Bank were exploited. The results showed that the "coaching mindset" cluster is more important and influential in the coaching competency indicators in Tejarat Bank than the other clusters and the "long-term performance enthusiasm" index. Manuscript profile

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132 - Review the gap between the existing and desired performance of the employees in order to implementation of the human performance improvement in the social security organization
SHERVIN MASHAYEKHI Mohammad salehi TARANEH ENAYATI

10.52547/istd.31469.8.29.123

performance analysis in organizations and identifying the gap of performance , its causes and roots is very important which can improve the quality of services of organizations , customer satisfaction and services . therefore , this study aims to identify the dimensions More

performance analysis in organizations and identifying the gap of performance , its causes and roots is very important which can improve the quality of services of organizations , customer satisfaction and services . therefore , this study aims to identify the dimensions of employee performance gap in order to deploy human performance improvement in social security organization . this research has been done in terms of purpose among applied research and qualitative method . the statistical sample of this research includes 120 experts ( academic and organizational ) and data collection tool is taking notes from texts , theoretical studies and available models . the results indicate that performance gap can be divided into three aspects : leadership style , workplace and human resource management . based on the findings in the first dimension , components of strategic management , structure , processes , style of management and interests of stakeholders , in the second dimension , components of organizational culture , environmental conditions , data and information and finally in the third dimension , components of human resource management , individual competencies , service system and compensation were confirmed . furthermore , by confirming the final model of performance gap , the stages of human performance improvement were identified in five stages . Manuscript profile

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133 - Study of the role of knowledge management in technological learning by considering the mediating variable of R&D activities in the oil industry
Hamid Babadinia Tahmoores Sohrabi Hossain Adab

10.52547/istd.31494.8.31.232

Current need for oil products and their applications in various fields, plus Iran’s potential has attracted significant investment in this field as the strategy of the Islamic Republic of Iran is to become self-sufficient and localize oil and gas industry.This study aim More

Current need for oil products and their applications in various fields, plus Iran’s potential has attracted significant investment in this field as the strategy of the Islamic Republic of Iran is to become self-sufficient and localize oil and gas industry.This study aimed to investigate the role of knowledge management in technological learning through the mediating variable of research and development activities in an oil and gas organization.To this end, a research model was presented based on theoretical studies, which yielded three hypotheses. A valid and reliable questionnaire was used to collect data to test the research hypotheses. The statistical population of the study included managers and experts of the company under study (n > 100). Due to the abnormality of data distribution, Smart PLS software was used to test the hypotheses. According to the software outputs, knowledge management affects research and development activities, research and development activities affect technological learning, and knowledge management affects technological learning. Therefore, better implementation of technological learning requires special attention to the creation, sharing and application of knowledge and experience that exists in the organization. Manuscript profile

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134 - Determining Performance Coaching Indices and Developing a Coaching Model for Managers in the Petrochemical Industry
Omid Ali Mashodi Hassan Darzian Rostami Hadi Zeraatpisheh

10.52547/istd.31546.8.31.248

The present study aimed to develop a model for performance coaching indices for public relations managers of petrochemical companies in the South Pars region. This applied study used exploratory content analysis to form categories including dimensions, components, and b More

The present study aimed to develop a model for performance coaching indices for public relations managers of petrochemical companies in the South Pars region. This applied study used exploratory content analysis to form categories including dimensions, components, and behavioral indices. A mixed-methods approach was used for data collection and analysis. In the qualitative phase, data were collected via interviews with experts in the field of coaching. The data collected in the qualitative phase were analyzed using content analysis of texts, interviews, and questionnaires with a Delphi approach. In the quantitative phase, data were collected via surveys with the network pairwise comparison questionnaire and the standard ACHIEVE performance measurement questionnaire. Twenty experts were recruited for the qualitative phase and 160 public relations managers for the quantitative phase. The results of the research showed that experts agreed on three individual, social, and organizational dimensions by consensus. Experts agreed on the indices obtained from the review of literature and interviews, which included eight individual indices, six social indices, and five organizational indices. Organizational dimension had the highest effect on performance management with a path coefficient of 4.6, followed by the individual dimension with a path coefficient of 2.55, and the social dimension with a path coefficient of 2.46. Based on path coefficient analysis in structural equations, the priority of indices (path coefficient) in the individual dimension was as follows: behavior and character (9.36), media literacy (2.33), cognitive intelligence and empowerment (7.25), personality (5.19), and accountability (8.9). The priority of indices for the social dimension was as follows: communication skills (4.28), status and position (3.26), participation (2.24), dynamism (5.19), altruism (3.17), and team planning (1.14). The obtained indices were tested for their relationship with performance components based on the ACHIEVE model. The test results showed that the path coefficients of individual, social and organizational dimensions on performance management were 0.190, 0.267, and 0.397, respectively. This means that the factors have a positive and significant effect on performance management and the developed model is approved. Manuscript profile

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135 - Comparison of the three levels of Electronic Performance Support System (EPSS) on improving performance and increasing employee efficiency (Case study: Day Insurance employees)
Marjan zahedian Hashem Fardanesh Javad Hatami kiumars taghipour

The purpose of this study was to measure the effectiveness of the three types of electronic performance support systems (Intrinsic, Extrinsic, and External) on employee performance improvement. The statistical population in this research was 750 insurance agents of the More

The purpose of this study was to measure the effectiveness of the three types of electronic performance support systems (Intrinsic, Extrinsic, and External) on employee performance improvement. The statistical population in this research was 750 insurance agents of the Day insurance. The cluster sampling method was used to select 90 participants. These participants were divided randomly into three groups: Intrinsic and Extrinsic, and External Performance Support Systems. To assess the performance of the participants, we used questionnaires, and for efficiency, insurance agent's arrival, and departure time to the electronic environment were estimated. The collected data was analyzed using MANOVA. The results of the data analysis showed that the insurance agents who participated in the Intrinsic and Extrinsic Performance Support Systems had better performance. In addition, Intrinsic Performance Support Systems participants have been able to perform their job responsibilities in a shorter time than insurance agents of the other two groups. Manuscript profile

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136 - Probabilistic Evaluation of Multi-Chamber Arresters Protection Performance for Reduction of Lighting Failures in Overhead Distribution Lines
Ramezan Ali Naghizadeh

A sophisticated and accurate probabilistic computational procedure for the calculation of lightning failures and evaluation of MCA performance for reduction of failures is implemented in this paper. Calculation of induced overvoltage caused by indirect lightning is impl More

A sophisticated and accurate probabilistic computational procedure for the calculation of lightning failures and evaluation of MCA performance for reduction of failures is implemented in this paper. Calculation of induced overvoltage caused by indirect lightning is implemented based on the Agarwal method with consideration of lossy ground. The Monte Carlo method with backward scenario reduction is implemented to take into account the uncertainty of lightning flash parameters including peak current and front time with the distance of the striking point from the distribution line with applying a proper model for simulation of MCA in ATP-EMTP software. A link is developed between MATLAB and ATP-EMTP software to simulate the numerous generated scenarios and analyze the output results. Different conditions including the insulation strength of the line, the earth conductivity, and the shielding factor of the adjacent objects to the line are also taken into account in calculations. The results are presented in a proper way to make them useful for the determination of lightning-related failure rates and also accurate evaluation of the effectiveness of MCA installation in different conditions of distribution feeders. Manuscript profile

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137 - Investigating the Role of Women in the Relationship Between Entrepreneurial Tendencies of Companies and Financial Performance in Companies Listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange.
Seyed Davod Hosseini Rad Mostafa Ghasemi Abdol Reza Mohseni

In developing countries, women play a significant role in promoting families, also the growth and development of their countries. The success of women entrepreneurs in societies brings economic advantages and creates social and cultural benefits. Countries consider entr More

In developing countries, women play a significant role in promoting families, also the growth and development of their countries. The success of women entrepreneurs in societies brings economic advantages and creates social and cultural benefits. Countries consider entrepreneurship due to three reasons; "wealth creation, technology development, and productive employment." However, in Iran, this concept is simply synonymous with "employment" by mistake, and we are moving towards entrepreneurship only to solve the employment problem. The present study investigates the role of women in the relationship between entrepreneurial tendencies of companies and financial performance in companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange. For this purpose, data related to 140 companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange between the years 2013 to 2020 were collected and examined by the method of the structural equation (PLS). Findings from the study show that women have a moderating role between the criteria of entrepreneurial orientation and performance indicators of the company. It means that the role of women will improve the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and corporate financial performance. Manuscript profile

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138 - Investigating the managerial performance of tourism complexes by reviewing socio-cultural components (Case study: Kermanshah Tourism Complex)
Behroz Badko Mohammad Ghasemi Siani Farhad Jalalvandi

Today, tourism is one of the largest industries in the world and depends on a major part of the global economy; Tourism is economically, socio-culturally and environmentally integrated with the lives of people and governments. The purpose of this study is to investigat More

Today, tourism is one of the largest industries in the world and depends on a major part of the global economy; Tourism is economically, socio-culturally and environmentally integrated with the lives of people and governments. The purpose of this study is to investigate the managerial performance of tourism complexes and present a strategic proposal with emphasis on socio-cultural components in Kermanshah tourism complex. This article examines the managerial performance in four tourism complexes, Rakhsh, Nesar, Nodsheh and Sefid Barg in Kermanshah province. And how can focusing on these components provide successful and appropriate management for the Kermanshah Jihad University tourism complex? This research was conducted using field survey and questionnaire tools presented to 152 people in Kermanshah tourism managers. The results showed that the components of reviving cultural identity and sense of national pride, promoting the culture of tourist reception and retention are ranked first, second and third among all the identified components affecting the managerial performance of tourism complexes, respectively. Accordingly, the emphasis on cultural identity and the necessary training to the managers of the complexes to create a culture of tourist reception has a significant impact on attracting tourists to the tourist complexes of the province. Manuscript profile

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139 - Entrepreneurial intelligence: a mediating role in the relationship between CRM and organizational performance
alireza zamanian maryam hafezian mohsen hafezian

10.61186/jstpi.32201.19.76.20

Customer relationship management is a strategic concept that creates customer loyalty, satisfaction, retention and profitability for the organization. Many studies also emphasize the effect of entrepreneurial intelligence on financial and economic intelligence. In this More

Customer relationship management is a strategic concept that creates customer loyalty, satisfaction, retention and profitability for the organization. Many studies also emphasize the effect of entrepreneurial intelligence on financial and economic intelligence. In this regard, the present study explained the relationship between customer relationship management and entrepreneurial intelligence mediation on the performance of the organization in the managers and employees of the cultural department of Sari Municipality. The present research method is descriptive and in the form of a causal model examined the relationships between variables. The statistical population of the present study is 270 employees of the cultural sector municipality and its affiliated organizations from which 150 questionnaires were collected through random sampling. Data collection tools were the standard Customer Relationship Management Questionnaire (2005), the Kaplan and Norton Organizational Performance Questionnaire (2001) and the Entrepreneurial Entrepreneurship Questionnaire. The method of data collection was field and content validity method was used to validate the questions and Cronbach's alpha method was used to measure the reliability of the variables. Then, the data were analyzed using AMOS software version 24 and structural equation model. Finally, the results confirmed all research hypotheses. Employee entrepreneurial intelligence mediation in the impact of customer relationship management and organizational performance was confirmed and focus on key customers is the most influential component of customer relationship management on organizational performance. Organizational CRM, technology-based CRM and knowledge management came in next. Manuscript profile

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140 - The relationship between organizational intelligence and organizational performance with the mediation of creativity
Ali Katebi mehdi arabzadeh Sara Zarei

The purpose of this research is to analyze the structural analysis of the mediating role of creativity in the relationship between organizational intelligence and organizational performance among engineers working in Qazvin city. The current research method is descripti More

The purpose of this research is to analyze the structural analysis of the mediating role of creativity in the relationship between organizational intelligence and organizational performance among engineers working in Qazvin city. The current research method is descriptive and correlational, and the statistical population of the research includes all working civil engineers with more than 10 years of work experience and members of Qazvin Engineering System Organization, which were 1000 people in total. The sample size was 278 people who were selected using Cochran's table and random sampling method. Data collection tools are the standard questionnaires of Karl Albrecht's organizational intelligence, Hersey and Goldsmith's organizational performance, and the organizational creativity questionnaire that was distributed among the sample. Validity and reliability tests were performed using SPSS software, and research hypotheses were tested using SEM method with the help of PLS software. The results indicate that the coefficient of significance of the three paths between the variables of organizational intelligence, creativity and organizational performance (2.505, 7.544, 5.147) are greater than 1.96, which indicates that the direct effect of organizational intelligence on organizational performance and also the indirect effect Organizational intelligence on organizational performance through the mediating variable of creativity is significant with a confidence level of 0.95 and confirms the hypotheses of the research. Also, based on the results of the research, all the components separately had a positive and significant relationship with creativity based on the Pearson correlation coefficient. As a result, the members of the engineering system of Qazvin city in today's competitive environment, in order to improve organizational performance, should pay attention to the establishment and implementation of organizational intelligence and pay attention to the components of creativity Manuscript profile

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141 - Developing an Alignment Model of Management Control Systems and Strategy based on Dynamic Capability Approach (Case study: Iranian Medicine Cooperates Listed on the Stock Exchange)
Khadijeh Moghaddar mirzahasan hoseini Mohammad Taghi Amini Mohammad Mahmoudi Maymand

Objective: The research is to broaden the knowledge about the relationship between management control systems and the organization’s strategies in order to design more effective control systems. Since in the current study, the strategy conceptualization is formed in the More

Objective: The research is to broaden the knowledge about the relationship between management control systems and the organization’s strategies in order to design more effective control systems. Since in the current study, the strategy conceptualization is formed in the organizational capabilities’ level –not in the level of strategic choices- the main purpose of the research is to identify suitable control systems for dynamic capabilities development. Methodology: Regarding to the main purpose of the study, positivist paradigm, in general, and the contingent approach, in particular, are used and the cross-sectional survey research strategy is developed to examine the relationship between strategy and control system. Findings: The results showed that in dynamic environments, the relational control systems have a positive relationship with organizational dynamic capabilities, organizational capabilities and organizational performance. Moreover, the dynamic tension resulting from simultaneously and equally diagnostic and interactive usage of control systems in dynamic environments has a significant positive relationship with organizational dynamic capabilities, organizational capabilities and organizational performance. Additionally, control system via dynamic capabilities has an effect on formation and development of organizational capabilities and the system could modify the organizational performance through the processes of dynamic capabilities and organizational capabilities development Manuscript profile

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142 - Regional Power-Aware Routing for Partially-Connected 3D Network-on-Chip
Mitra Moalemnia HadiShahriar Shahhoseini

Network-on-chip provides an efficient communication platform for Systems-on-chip. The static power consumption is an important issue in these networks. Switching the power supply on virtual channels during idle time is a common method for reducing the network power cons More

Network-on-chip provides an efficient communication platform for Systems-on-chip. The static power consumption is an important issue in these networks. Switching the power supply on virtual channels during idle time is a common method for reducing the network power consumption. The traffic load at the network level and non-continuous idle period of virtual channel have caused the sources to be switched on and off continuously, which leads to increase in power consumption and other overheads. This will be more important, in partially connected 3D chip networks in which a limited number of vertical connections has been used. In this paper, a routing algorithm is proposed who employs an appropriate policy for packet distribution, and reduces the load distribution in the network and creates a continuous idle time for the resources, result in suitable power management in the network. In this routing scheme the network is divided to north and south region and some restriction applied in usage of elevators in each region and try to increase the utilization of the used resources as well as the ideal time of low traffic paths. The simulation results, derived by BookSim, show the proposed method improve the network power consumption by 18% to 30% comparing previous algorithms, and the network delay has been reduced by 32%. Manuscript profile

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143 - Predicting Academic Performance in English Language Based on the Components of English Language Classroom Anxiety
Ramazan Hassanzadeh

: The present study was aimed to investigate predicting academic performance in English language, based on the components of Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale among Babol’s female senior high school students. The research was done using descriptive (correlational More

: The present study was aimed to investigate predicting academic performance in English language, based on the components of Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale among Babol’s female senior high school students. The research was done using descriptive (correlational) method. 285 female students were selected through random cluster sampling as the research sample. The Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS), and students’ first semester scores in English as the measure for academic achievement were used. The results of the study revealed there were negative significant relationships between the components of English Language Classroom Anxiety Scale and academic achievement in English language. The results of regression analysis show that fear of negative evaluation; negative attitudes toward the English class, and Comm-unication apprehension can predict %60 of the academic achievement in English language. Manuscript profile

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144 - Influence of competition intensity on the performance components of the organization in the metal industry
Javad Naseri Mostafa Mobalighi

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of competition intensity on the performance components of the organization (investment and financial dimension, customer, internal process and learning) in the metal industry. The research method is descriptive-sur More

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of competition intensity on the performance components of the organization (investment and financial dimension, customer, internal process and learning) in the metal industry. The research method is descriptive-survey and is applied in terms of purpose. From 230 senior managers in the field of metal industry in East Azerbaijan province, using Cochran's formula, a sample of 144 people was randomly taken from this community. The research tool was a questionnaire and in order to check the validity and reliability of the questionnaire, in content validity by asking experts and in assessing the validity of the structure, factor analysis of research variables was used. Cronback alpha for all questionnaire questions was 0.902, which confirms the high reliability of the questionnaire. Kolmogorovw-Smirnov test was used to distribute the data and the results showed that all factors in the sample followed the normal distribution. To analyze the hypotheses, regression test was used and SPSS software was used to analyze and process the research data. According to the research findings, the intensity of competition affects the financial dimension, customer dimension, internal processes dimension and the organization's learning processes dimension. The results of regression tables showed that the intensity of competition has the greatest impact on the customer dimension of the organization. Manuscript profile

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145 - Relationship between organizational citizenship behavior and customer citizenship behavior and its effect on the performance of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Gas Company
sajad mousaviabad

The present study belongs to the category of exploratory-applied research. The statistical population of this research consists of employees and customers of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Gas Company. The number of employees of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Gas Company is 100 More

The present study belongs to the category of exploratory-applied research. The statistical population of this research consists of employees and customers of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Gas Company. The number of employees of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Gas Company is 1000 people, which corresponds to each employee selected by one customer, and the number of samples was selected using Cochran's formula of 280 people. Preliminary information about the mentioned variables was collected in the field by three samples of a questionnaire, one with 16 questions for gas company employees and the other with 17 questions for customers, which was compiled based on the Likert scale and EFQM questionnaire to evaluate performance. The collected data in this study have been reviewed and analyzed using SPSS software. Findings indicate that there is a relationship between organizational citizenship behavior and customer citizenship behavior and these two behaviors affect the performance of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Gas Company. Manuscript profile

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146 - The Impact of the Brand Management System on Employees’ Brand Performance in Travel and Tourism Companies
Ardeshir Shiri Maryam Mesbahi Amin Hemmati

Given the increasing level of competition among service companies, the role and the importance of intangible assets have increased. A brand is an intangible asset that is the most important factor in distinguishing a company and creating a competitive advantage for it. More

Given the increasing level of competition among service companies, the role and the importance of intangible assets have increased. A brand is an intangible asset that is the most important factor in distinguishing a company and creating a competitive advantage for it. In the competitive environment of the tourism industry, maintaining and developing the market share result from the brand performance. Since the role of staff is significant in transferring the company’s brand contracts to customers (in service companies), this research tried to understand why the brand management system was important. It also tried to empirically investigate the effect of the brand management system on brand performance at the employee level, and the mediation effects of brand identity, brand commitment, and brand loyalty. The statistical population of this research included employees of travel and tourism companies in Tehran. To get a sample size, the study used available sampling and Cochran’s formula. This is an applied research, and data analysis is descriptive and correlational. To analyze the data of the questionnaire, the study used confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation model. The results showed that the brand management system had no direct effect on the brand performance at the employee level. However, the brand management system indirectly influenced brand performance through brand identity, brand commitment, and brand loyalty. Manuscript profile

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147 - The Impact of Green Human Resource Management on Environmental Performance of Hotel Employees
Abbas Ali Rastegar Mehdi Sabokro morteza Maleki Minbash Razgah hooshmand bagheri garbollagh

Managing human resources in eco-friendly management of the hotels remains a relatively unexplored subject. The hotel industry is a sector that largely burdens the environment. Given the many environmental issues that the hotel industry created, sustainable business prac More

Managing human resources in eco-friendly management of the hotels remains a relatively unexplored subject. The hotel industry is a sector that largely burdens the environment. Given the many environmental issues that the hotel industry created, sustainable business practices such as green human resource management is essential. This study examined the ways to improve employees’ eco-friendly behavior and hotels’ environmental performance through green human resource management. The paper followed an applied method with a descriptive-exploratory correlation approach. Exemplary samples of 236 hotel employees (concerned with environmental issues) were randomly selected in the cities of Tabriz, Tehran, and Mashhad. Cronbach’s alpha and composite reliability were used to determine the reliability of the questionnaire. To determine validity, we used convergent and divergent validity. The hypotheses of the research were tested using structural equation modeling. The findings showed that green human resource management had a positive and significant effect on the employees’ organizational commitment, eco-friendly behavior, and the hotels’ environmental performance. The organizational commitment, too, had a positive and significant effect on the employees’ eco-friendly behavior. Manuscript profile

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148 - Exploring the Relationship between the Culture of Cooperation and the Creative Performance of Tourism Hoteling Organizations Staff
majid sarani ali akbar amin bedokhti sakineh jafari

In today’s competitive world, the key to success of tourism and hoteling organizations lies in their provision of creative products and services with regard to the different needs of their customers. As the staff’s creativity could provide organizations with some compet More

In today’s competitive world, the key to success of tourism and hoteling organizations lies in their provision of creative products and services with regard to the different needs of their customers. As the staff’s creativity could provide organizations with some competitive advantages, they need to try more to increase their employees’ creativity so that they may enjoy such advantages. This applied descriptive-correlative study, therefore, set out to investigate the relationship between the culture of cooperation and the creative performance of those staff members working in tourism organizations and two, three and four-star hotels in Yazd, Iran. To this end, a population of 172 supervisors and employees from all two, three and four-star hotels of Yazd city were selected through stratified random sampling. Having administered the standard questionnaires on culture of cooperation, working environment, and creative performance, the collected data were analyzed through the path analysis model, using LISREL software. The findings of the study indicated a significant positive and direct correlation between the culture of cooperation and the employees’ creative performance, while the culture had no such effect on the creativity of the staff when enforced through the procedural justice as an intervening variable. It was also found that there was a significant indirect relationship between the culture and the employees’ creative performance when the sharing of knowledge acted as a mediator, and that the cooperative culture had an indirect effect on employees’ creativity with the motivation acting as a mediator. Moreover, the culture of cooperation proved to have a significant indirect influence on the employees’ creative performance with the promotion factor acting as an intervening variable. Manuscript profile

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149 - Investigating the Influence of Internal Marketing on Employees' Job Performance Mediated by Knowledge-sharing and The Moderating Role of Communication: A Case Study of Mashhad’s Four and Five-Star Hotels
Ghasem Eslami Farshad Ghaderi

10.61186/journalitor.35989.12.25.101

Today's social community pays great attention to human resources. In other words, the performance of employees in the service sector, especially the tourism industry, is becoming increasingly important. On the other hand, tourism industry employees contribute significan More

Today's social community pays great attention to human resources. In other words, the performance of employees in the service sector, especially the tourism industry, is becoming increasingly important. On the other hand, tourism industry employees contribute significantly to creating a competitive advantage, with organizations with better-performing employees experiencing better business growth. Therefore, this study sought to investigate the influence of internal marketing on the employees’ job performance mediated by knowledge sharing and the moderating role of communication. The current study is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive survey in terms of method. The statistical population of the study comprised the 390 employees of four and five-star hotels in Mashhad. The required data were collected from the administered questionnaires, which were then analyzed via structural equation modeling using the AMOS software. The findings of the study indicated that internal marketing exerted a positive significant influence on knowledge sharing and staff performance. Moreover, knowledge sharing was found to have a positive effect on employees' job performance. Furthermore, the positive effects of the moderating role of organizational communication and knowledge sharing were also confirmed. The present research is descriptive-survey in terms of applied purpose and method of work. The statistical population of the study includes the staff of hotels in Mashhad. The collected data from 390 questionnaires were analyzed by structural equation modeling with AMOS software. Findings showed that internal marketing has a positive and significant effect on knowledge sharing and employee performance. At the same time, knowledge sharing has a positive effect on employees' job performance. Another result was that the moderator role of organizational communication was also confirmed. In addition, the role of knowledge sharing interface was also confirmed. Manuscript profile

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150 - Identifying and Analyzing the Factors Affecting the Work Motivation of Employees of an Industrial Unit Using the Thematic Analysis Approach
Atieh Sabaghinia Hossein Samavatyan

The aim of this study was to recognize and analyze the effective factors on employee work motivation in an industrial production unit applying thematic analysis approach. The purpose of the current study was considered as an applied research. The research method was qua More

The aim of this study was to recognize and analyze the effective factors on employee work motivation in an industrial production unit applying thematic analysis approach. The purpose of the current study was considered as an applied research. The research method was qualitative and the statistical population was consisted of all 270 employees in different levels of an auto-parts manufacturing company in 2020-2021. Judgment sampling was done until the theoretical saturation was acquired. Applying in-depth and heurictic interviews, 17 individuals, both managers and non manager personnel at different levels of the company were questioned. The analysis method of this research was thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke) using MAXQDA2020 software. The findings indicate the identification of ten main themes as factors affecting work motivation was indicated, including perceived organizational justice, perceived organizational support, job involvement, occupational hardiness, compensation management, leadership style, economic status, role clarity, job security, and job demands. According to the results each of the main themes has a share of employees' work motivation while managers were better able to improve the work motivation of employees and affect their performance by considering identified perceptual factors derived from the qualitative analysis method. Manuscript profile

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151 - Investigating the moderating effect of social capital and environmental uncertainty on entrepreneurial orientation and performance with the mediating role of innovation speed in knowledge-based small and medium enterprises of Razavi Khorasan Province
hossein balouchi Mohammadi Hosseini Seyed Ahmad ehsan mohammadi bajgiran

In today's dynamic environment, having appropriate strategies alone is not enough for organizations and they must be able to coordinate with their environment. It is small and medium companies. This study is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive and survey in term More

In today's dynamic environment, having appropriate strategies alone is not enough for organizations and they must be able to coordinate with their environment. It is small and medium companies. This study is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive and survey in terms of data collection method. A questionnaire based on standard questionnaires was used to collect data. The statistical population of the research was the managers of small and medium-sized knowledge-based companies in Khorasan Razavi province, which had more than 316 knowledge-based companies operating in Khorasan Razavi province. Based on Cochran's formula, 320 people were considered as samples and completed the questionnaire. Data analysis for both the direct relationship model and the moderator model was done using the structural equation modeling method in Lisrel software. The obtained results showed that entrepreneurial orientation has an effect on company performance and innovation speed. Also, the mediating role of innovation speed in the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and performance was confirmed. In addition, the results confirmed the moderating role of contingent capital and environmental uncertainty in relation to entrepreneurial orientation and company performance Manuscript profile

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152 - Modifying social impact assessment to enhance the effectiveness of company social investment strategies in contributing to local community development
Frank Vanclay Ilya Gulakov Jos Arts sh n

Good practice social impact assessment (SIA) should lead to improved local community development outcomes. However, the social benefits alleged to flow from projects are often not as evident to affected communities as the project’s adverse impacts. Projects still give i More

Good practice social impact assessment (SIA) should lead to improved local community development outcomes. However, the social benefits alleged to flow from projects are often not as evident to affected communities as the project’s adverse impacts. Projects still give inadequate attention to social issues and fail to achieve social development outcomes. Using a prominent gas project in Russia, the Nord Stream 2 project, as an illustrative example, we explore the potential of environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) to enhance the effectiveness of project contributions to local community development. We analyse the main steps of the community development process for the Nord Stream 2 project, and consider how it benefitted from the SIA process. We also reflect on the potential further contribution of SIA to community development. Even though SIA and community development are interrelated, we conclude that SIA, as currently practiced, is constrained in its ability to contribute to community development outcomes. Adjustments to the SIA and corporate social investment frameworks are needed to make them more effective in achieving social development outcomes. Manuscript profile

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153 - The effect of spectators on the ability, performance and success of the Iranian volleyball premier league team
َAli masoudi yaser janbaz

Today, coaches design the preparation process and training program to develop individual performance and sports teams using statistical analysis methods. The spectators along with the players are like rich resources that are identified with the help of sports psychologi More

Today, coaches design the preparation process and training program to develop individual performance and sports teams using statistical analysis methods. The spectators along with the players are like rich resources that are identified with the help of sports psychologists and according to considering the individual characteristics of the players and providing the optimal conditions for supporting the players through the support and encouragement of the spectators and the correct planning. In this regard, the necessity of the present study to investigate the effects of Mashachi's presence on the team performance of Iranian Men's Premier League volleyball players was studied. Isfahan, Mehram Tehran, Bandaramam Petrochemical, Afra Khalikh Fars, Tehran, Takmash Qazvin, Isfahan Zobahan Army and Zanjan Cooperative, which has a total of 12 teams and about 144 players and 24 coaches. Mahshahr team's experimental team and Zanjan cooperation team, which was very close to Mahshahr team in terms of table points and conditions, was considered as a control variable. Of course, Mashachi's presence had no effect on Mahshahr and for this reason it was considered as a control variable and the team efficiency variable (dependent variable) was examined in a quasi-experimental with post-test. Sampling method is purposeful. And 12 Zanjan assisting players as control variables. In this study, the Feltz & Learge (1998) Collaborative Performance Questionnaire was used. This questionnaire consists of 49 questions and includes (5 subscales of effort, team stability, readiness, unity and ability). A 5-point scale was used to determine the degree of importance of each variable. In this study, the researcher used an independent t-test due to the normal distribution of data. The presence of spectators has had a significant effect on the amount of effort, unity, team stability, ability, team efficiency and readiness of Iranian Men's volleyball players, and finally it is suggested that the present study be conducted on different groups. Manuscript profile

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154 - International Institutions; Mathematica Modeling of Change from G5 to G20
Ali Akbar Kiani

International Institutions, though one of key global actors and topics of International Studies, are rarely studied by focusing on the internal processes of change. A justification for lack of research could be the challenges in quantifying internal changes and processe More

International Institutions, though one of key global actors and topics of International Studies, are rarely studied by focusing on the internal processes of change. A justification for lack of research could be the challenges in quantifying internal changes and processes. Hence, the proliferation of qualitative takes relying on personal analysis. Given the importance of cooperation groups in global governance, this article asks what is the degree of change in the process of expansion of G5 into G20? Utilising quantitative and mathematical methods, the study offers an equation based on data provided by the World Back. The equation proves a model to analyse track-records, which seemingly suggests highest performance by G7 and lowest for G8 Manuscript profile

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155 - Economic Diplomacy and Islamic Republic of Iran’s Accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO)
Sayed Mohammad Mousavi dehmourdi Vahid Bozorgi

International Institutions, though one of key global actors and topics of International Studies, are rarely studied by focusing on the internal processes of change. A justification for lack of research could be the challenges in quantifying internal changes and processe More

International Institutions, though one of key global actors and topics of International Studies, are rarely studied by focusing on the internal processes of change. A justification for lack of research could be the challenges in quantifying internal changes and processes. Hence, the proliferation of qualitative takes relying on personal analysis. Given the importance of cooperation groups in global governance, this article asks what is the degree of change in the process of expansion of G5 into G20? Utilising quantitative and mathematical methods, the study offers an equation based on data provided by the World Back. The equation proves a model to analyse track-records, which seemingly suggests highest performance by G7 and lowest for G8 Manuscript profile

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156 - Structural Analysis of the Mediating Role of Organizational Ambidexterity in Influencing Learning from Organizational Error and Failure on Innovative Human Resource Performance
sara Mohammadi Belghis Bavarsad Ilnaz Irani behbahani

Errors and failures are inevitable in organizations, and lately, there has been an increasing need in understanding and learning from organizational errors. The main purpose of this study is Structural analysis of the effect of learning from organizational error an More

Errors and failures are inevitable in organizations, and lately, there has been an increasing need in understanding and learning from organizational errors. The main purpose of this study is Structural analysis of the effect of learning from organizational error and failure on innovative human resource performance: The mediating role of organizational ambidexterity in the employees of the South Zagros Oil and Gas Exploitation Company. This study in terms of purpose, practical and in terms of data collection is a descriptive correlational research. The statistical population of the study includes all experts and employees of the South Zagros Oil and Gas Exploitation Company with 255 people, who are considered as a limited population and all of them have been studied by census method. Standard questionnaires with validity and reliability were used to collect research data. Finally, 248 completed questionnaires were collected and used as the basis for analysis. The results of structural equation testing using PLS 3 software showed that learning from organizational errors does not have a direct and significant effect on innovative performance, but due to the organizational ambidexterity, promotes innovative performance in the organization. In other words, organizational ambidexterity as a mediating variable plays the role of facilitator and complete mediator in the relationship between learning from organizational errors and innovative performance in the organization. The results also confirm the positive and significant effect of learning from organizational errors on organizational ambidexterity, and organizational ambidexterity on innovative performance. Manuscript profile

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157 - Mediation of achievement motivation in the relationship between sports identity and athletic performance of adolescent athletes
Fatemah Keshir nokandeh Morteza Homayounnia Firoozjah Alireza Homayouni

The aim of this study was to mediate the role of achievement motivation in the relationship between sports identity and athletic performance of adolescent athletes. The research was a descriptive correlational study based on structural equation modeling. The statistical More

The aim of this study was to mediate the role of achievement motivation in the relationship between sports identity and athletic performance of adolescent athletes. The research was a descriptive correlational study based on structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the present study included all male adolescents aged 15 to 18 years in Gorgan and 220 adolescent athletes were selected as sample. Data collection tools included three questionnaires to examine research variables. Findings showed that there is a significant positive relationship between sports identity and achievement motivation with sports performance and the research model was confirmed in general 41% of sports performance can be explained by sports identity and achievement motivation. Also, the variables of sports identity and achievement motivation have a significant direct effect on sports performance. The results of this study emphasize the need for the role of identity and motivation and ultimately sports performance in athletes. Manuscript profile

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158 - Examining the Relationship between Academic Engagement with Academic Procrastination, School Absenteeism and Academic Performance with Mediating Role of Academic Buoyancy in Students
vali piri Manijhe Shehni Yailagh Askar atashafrouz

The objective of the current study is evaluating the precedent model (academic engagement) and the consequences (academic procrastination, absenteeism and academic performance) of academic buoyancy in high school students in Ilam province. This inquiry is a correlationa More

The objective of the current study is evaluating the precedent model (academic engagement) and the consequences (academic procrastination, absenteeism and academic performance) of academic buoyancy in high school students in Ilam province. This inquiry is a correlational study that with regards to the nature of the research and its objectives, the structural equation modeling method is used. The statistical population includes all 11th grade high school students in Ilam province and the research sample includes 625 subjects selected as cluster sampling. Data were collected using the Rio and Tseng (2011) Student Engagement Questionnaire, Martin & Marsh (2008) and Solomon & Roth Bloom (1984) academic procrastination questionnaires. Structural equation modeling was used to calculate the results. The model indices showed that the model is data fit. The results indicated that there is a direct positive and significant relationship between academic buoyancy and academic performance, academic engagement and academic buoyancy. There is also a direct negative and significant relationship between academic buoyancy and academic procrastination and students' absence from school, school absenteeism and academic performance. academic procrastination and academic performance. Other results of the study are that there is an indirect negative relationship between academic engagement and academic procrastination and absenteeism through academic mediation, and a positive and significant indirect relationship between academic achievement and academic performance through students' academic performance through academic procrastination. Also, absenteeism from school has a significant indirect relationship. Manuscript profile

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159 - The effect of caffeine consumption on some factors of physical fitness and skills of young footballers
pourya pazouki Abdolrasoul Daneshjoo

10.61186/jspac.38720.2.6.54

Background: Caffeine is a supplement that is not yet fully effective in specific football training styles. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of caffeine consumption on some of the physical fitness and skill factors of young footballers. Materials More

Background: Caffeine is a supplement that is not yet fully effective in specific football training styles. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of caffeine consumption on some of the physical fitness and skill factors of young footballers. Materials and Methods: The research method is quasi-experimental and the participants of this study were 30 football players aged 16-18 years who were randomly selected and randomly assigned to one of the three groups of caffeine consumption, placebo use and control (30 = n). The variables of lower limb strength, agility, speed, maximum oxygen consumption and pass, shoot and dribble football skills were considered as dependent variables in pre-test and post-test of all participants. Data were classified by descriptive indices of mean and standard deviation and data analysis was performed using repeated measures analysis of variance test using SPSS-23 software at a significance level of P <0.05. Results: The results of statistical test showed that between the average lower limb strength (sig = 0.001), maximum oxygen consumption (sig = 0.001), speed (sig = 0.001) and agility (sig = 0.002) There is a statistically significant difference in the caffeine group with the other two groups from the pre-test to the post-test, but there is no statistically significant difference between the control and placebo groups. The results also showed that there was a statistically significant difference between the mean performance of shot, pass and dribble football in the caffeine group with the other two groups from the pre-test to post-test (sig = 0.001), but between the control and placebo groups. There is no statistically significant difference. Conclusion: Based on the results of the present study, caffeine consumption can have a positive effect on the physical fitness and technical skills of young footballers. Therefore, football coaches are advised to use caffeinated beverages before training to improve their footballers' physical and skill factors. Manuscript profile

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160 - Reviewing and analyzing the content of separate and integrated curriculum in Iranian schools
محمد ایلخانی پور

Building information modeling as an efficient tool to optimize, manage and plan construction projects has created a revolution in the construction industry in recent years. But the slow expansion of this powerful technology in third world countries, including Iran, has More

Building information modeling as an efficient tool to optimize, manage and plan construction projects has created a revolution in the construction industry in recent years. But the slow expansion of this powerful technology in third world countries, including Iran, has caused many concerns in this field and it has many problems and obstacles in front of it, and with the passage of several years since the introduction of BIM in it, an effective action to inform and introduce This process has not been done by the government to the country's construction industry, as well as the evaluation and creation of grounds for its implementation and application. Considering the importance of the topic, the purpose of the research was to investigate the reasons for the inefficiency and use of building information modeling (BIM) in Shiraz city. The research method was applied and of the descriptive-correlation type. In this research, using library studies and interviews with experts, the reasons for the ineffectiveness of building information modeling were identified. Then, using the DEMATEL technique, the internal relationship between the identified components was determined. Identified parameters were calculated by applying the network analysis method (ANP) in the form of pairwise comparisons and the weight of each factor, which shows their influence, was calculated in the Superdesign software. The results regarding determining the weight of the criteria and prioritizing the effective factors indicate that among the factors, financial criterion with a weight of 0.31, technical criterion with a weight of 0.38, human resources criterion with a weight of 0.13, and time criterion with a weight of 0.19 respectively have They were the highest ranks. Manuscript profile

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161 - High Performance Computing: Next Generation Requirements and Research Axes
ehsan arianyan MohammadMahdi Esnaashari Fatemeh Ehsani Boshla Shaghayeghsadat Hossieni bayan Masoud Dehyadegari Behnam Samadi

Nowadays, increasing the processing power of supercomputers is a worldwide race. This race, signifies the importance of supercomputers in the current era. They are engines of improving technology in almost all scientific areas, such as computational biology, earth scien More

Nowadays, increasing the processing power of supercomputers is a worldwide race. This race, signifies the importance of supercomputers in the current era. They are engines of improving technology in almost all scientific areas, such as computational biology, earth sciences, cosmology, fluid dynamics, and plasma modeling, to name a few. Next generation of supercomputers can be divided into two broad categories: 1) emerging technologies such as neuromorphic and quantum computing and 2) Exascala computing. Emerging technologies will be the future of supercomputing, however, not in a very recent future. Therefore, in this paper, we have focused on Exascale computing, and have tried to provide a comprehensive overview of the main requirements for this technology to be achieved and become available. Requirements have been overviewed from different aspects; hardware, software, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing. In addition, we have attempted to provide a complete taxonomy of hot research topics within this area. Manuscript profile

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162 - Evaluation of the impact of management ability, political relations and financial crises on the risk management of banks admitted to the Tehran Stock Exchange
abdolmajid koze gar abbas pour aghajan Mohammad Abbasian

Identifying the factors affecting the performance, risk and price of banks is important both from the perspective of shareholders and depositors and from the perspective of active elements in the market. Given that the financial market consists of the two main pillars o More

Identifying the factors affecting the performance, risk and price of banks is important both from the perspective of shareholders and depositors and from the perspective of active elements in the market. Given that the financial market consists of the two main pillars of the money market and the capital market, the most important task of the capital market is to attract scattered capital and its optimal allocation to units that move both for economic development and to maintain the expected interests of investors. Therefore, banks, as the engine of financing the economy, are of special importance for other enterprises active in the economy, both for the government and for the banks themselves. Accordingly, identifying the factors and indicators affecting performance and profitability, risk management, as well as changes in their stock prices, both in terms of bank management and from a macroeconomic point of view, can guide the economy and governments. On the other hand, given that the main activity of banks is to provide facilities and loans to applicants, proper management of banking challenges and improving the factors affecting the efficiency and effectiveness of banking resources, can move the economic cycle in the right direction. Accordingly, the researcher analyzed the information of 11 banks in the 9-year period from 2009 to 2017 to assess the impact of management ability, political relations and financial crises on performance improvement, risk management and falling prices of banks listed on the stock exchange. Tehran Stock Exchange paid. The results of the analysis of hypotheses in three parts show that first, the ability to manage has no significant effects on any of the performance indicators of banks, including return on assets, return on capital, growth rate of shared income and growth rate of non-shared income, as well as management ability on liquidity risk effects. It is significant, but it does not affect credit, operational and bankruptcy risk. Finally, the ability to manage has not affected the risk of falling stock prices of banks. Second, political relations have only a positive and significant effect on the growth rate of shared income and have no significant effects on return on assets, return on capital and growth rate of non-shared income. Also, political relations have significant effects on liquidity risk and bankruptcy, but on risk. Credit and operations are not affected. Finally, political relations have not affected the risk of falling stock prices of banks. Third, financial crises only have a positive and significant effect on the growth rate of shared income and have no significant effects on return on assets, return on capital and growth rate of non-shared income. Also, financial crises have significant effects on credit risk, liquidity and bankruptcy. Does not affect operational risk Finally, financial crises have a statistically significant effect on the risk of falling stock prices of banks. Manuscript profile

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163 - Designing an Entrepreneurial Marketing Model with an Approach to Improve Organizational Performance
javad motevali taher mohammadreza eghbal مجید فتاحی

The purpose of this research was to design an entrepreneurial marketing model aimed at improving performance. This study was conducted in a descriptive and exploratory manner. In the qualitative part, to identify the components, interviews were conducted with 10 academi More

The purpose of this research was to design an entrepreneurial marketing model aimed at improving performance. This study was conducted in a descriptive and exploratory manner. In the qualitative part, to identify the components, interviews were conducted with 10 academic experts in the fields of marketing and entrepreneurship, selected through a purposeful judgment method. The statistical sample in the quantitative section included 174 managers (high, middle, and operational) of the Social Security Organization, selected through simple random sampling. The findings of the qualitative section indicate that this model includes causal factors (entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurial mindset, entrepreneurial attitudes, opportunistic thinking), intervening factors (political, social, economic, cultural, nature of government organizations), contextual factors (personal values of entrepreneurial managers, entrepreneurial capabilities of managers, innovative marketing, ability to penetrate the structure, organizational structure, entrepreneurial cultural platform), strategies (re-engineering organizational processes, flexible organizational structure, dynamic marketing capacity building, creating a socially responsible organization, using social network marketing, creating new services), and consequences (optimization of decision-making, willingness to take risks, increasing the market value of the organization, improving organizational reputation, strategic dynamics, growth and excellence of the organization). Furthermore, entrepreneurial marketing has dimensions such as value orientation, customer orientation, innovation orientation, and entrepreneurship orientation. The findings of the quantitative section show that value orientation, customer orientation, innovation orientation, entrepreneurship orientation, and causal factors affect entrepreneurial marketing by 0.631, 0.741, 0.582, 0.489, and 0.551, respectively. Additionally, intervening and contextual factors and entrepreneurial marketing influence strategies by 0.350, 0.363, and 0.328, respectively, and strategies influence results by 0.719. Manuscript profile

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164 - Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation in Muscular Adaptations in Exercise: A Narrative Review
Daniel Tarmast

10.61186/jspac.39741.2.6.12

Nowadays, sports science uses scientific methods and medical devices to assist people with any improvements in sports. Muscle adaptations have significantly benefited as a result of the use of these advanced devices. It has been shown that neuromuscular electrical stimu More

Nowadays, sports science uses scientific methods and medical devices to assist people with any improvements in sports. Muscle adaptations have significantly benefited as a result of the use of these advanced devices. It has been shown that neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) devices effectively improve muscle function. The use of NMES devices in exercise physiology shows that neuromuscular adaptation is a current research area in both athletes and non-athletes. This narrative review aims to address neuromuscular adaptations and describe neuromuscular changes based on research using NMES. Many researchers and sports trainers will benefit from the results of this article by better understanding neuromuscular adaptations. NMES training has been shown to be an effective way to improve muscle growth, maximum voluntary strength, neuronal drive, oxidative metabolism, and antioxidant defense systems. In addition, NMES is capable of regulating the homeostasis of muscle proteins and increasing oxidative enzyme activity. In animal models, it has also been shown to increase axonal outgrowth, fiber reinnervation, and motor axon regeneration. Various NMES methods may decrease age-related muscle atrophy and functional deterioration. The use of NMES, which is one of the most successful strategies for increasing athletic performance through neuromuscular adaptations, is one of the most promising areas of research. Manuscript profile

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165 - Presenting a model for evaluating the company's performance using BSC and ranking indicators using the TOPSIS method(Case study:North Wood Industrial Company)
malihe ebrahimi

Objective: In today's competitive arena, all organizations need an effective performance evaluation system, so as to be able to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization, human resources and processes. On the other hand, Chipboard has many applicatio More

Objective: In today's competitive arena, all organizations need an effective performance evaluation system, so as to be able to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization, human resources and processes. On the other hand, Chipboard has many applications in the construction industry, including cabinets, bedding and furniture, wooden doors except to anti-theft doors. In this industry, wood waste is used, which can be very useful and constructive for the country's economy. Therefore, improving the performance of this industry is very important both in terms of improving the economy of country and in terms of the companies included in this industry Methodology: . In this article, using the balanced scorecard approach, indicators in four perspectives (growth and learning, customer, internal and financial processes) were compiled and using a questionnaire and non-parametric Wilcoxon test with a marked rank, 27 indicators were approved out of 46 indicators. Then, the TOPSIS method was used to rank the approved indicators Conclusion: According to the research findings, the perspective of internal processes in chipboard industry is more important. Among the sub-criteria, the criteria of timely delivery of goods, compliance of employees' performance with regulations and instructions, service to the company's neighboring stakeholders and the level of employee satisfaction are very important in the performance of the chipboard industry. Manuscript profile

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166 - The Effect of Transparency, Actors' Trust and Social Influence in the Adoption of Blockchain Technology in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (A Case Study of European Tourists)
Yazdan Shirmohammadi Nikooee Alireza sinaei sinaei

10.52547/jstpi.40694.19.73.43

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of Facilitating Conditions, Transparency, Stakeholder Trust, Social Influence and Performance Expectancy on the Adoption of Blockchain Technology through the Intention to use Technology in the Tourism Industry; Case st More

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of Facilitating Conditions, Transparency, Stakeholder Trust, Social Influence and Performance Expectancy on the Adoption of Blockchain Technology through the Intention to use Technology in the Tourism Industry; Case study: Travel Services Offices in Tehran which based on the practical purpose, based on The data collection time is survey. Its validity and reliability were confirmed. The reliability of the questionnaire was obtained by Cronbach's alpha test for the whole questionnaire at 0.76. The statistical population of this study includes managers and staff of travel service offices in Tehran and the sample size is 384 people and the sampling method is available. The data analysis method to evaluate the hypotheses is a simple, multiple and mediated regression model. According to the findings, Behavioral Intention, Performance Expectancy, Social Impact (Social Influence), Facilitating Conditions on Behavioral Expectations for Blockchain Adoption had a positive and significant effect, but Trust among Supply chain Stakeholders did not have a positive and significant effect on Behavioral Intention to use Blockchain. The findings of this research indicate that the activity of Iran's tourism industry, using blockchain as a communication platform to pay for services, has a positive and effective effect on foreign tourists. Manuscript profile

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167 - Investigating the effect of Management supervisory mechanisms of Companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange on the relationship between the tone of financial reporting and the emotional behavior of investors
Hadi Movludian seyed hesam vaghfi Effat Akbari Sedighe Kamranrad

The issue of financing and attracting capital is among the important and influential factors in the decision-making process in organizations and companies. The present research was carried out with the aim of investigating the optimal methods for financing the productio More

The issue of financing and attracting capital is among the important and influential factors in the decision-making process in organizations and companies. The present research was carried out with the aim of investigating the optimal methods for financing the production-distribution cooperative companies of Kashmer city. The statistical population of the current research includes all types of production cooperative companies active in Kashmer city, which number 148 companies. The statistical sample of the research was selected using the Kokoran formula of 85 companies. This research was carried out using the survey method (field research) of distributing questionnaires with standard components and with the help of managers of cooperative companies, experts and experts in the field of cooperatives of the General Department of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare of Kashmer city. Structural equations and exploratory factor analysis methods and Spss 24 and smartpls.3 software were used to perform the final analysis in the descriptive and inferential statistics section. The results of the research showed that the economic status of the members is in the first place, the participation and cooperation of the banks in the second place, Macro political and economic factors in the third place, supporting policies in the fourth place and people's participation in the fifth place are the effective factors on the financing of production-distribution cooperative companies in Kashmar city. Also, the results showed that the financing methods of production-distribution companies of the cooperative sector affect their performance. So that the variable of the economic status of the cooperative members has the most influence and the variable of people's participation has the least influence on the performance of the production cooperative companies active in Kashmer city. Manuscript profile

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168 - Evaluating the Impact of Economic Performance of Relief Committee on Social Justice
mohammad javad adalamchehreh Seyed Ataollah Sinaee khodayar mortazavia mostafa taghavi

In the years following the Revolution, based on the approach of poverty alleviation, many efforts have been made to establish social justice and divestment through the actions of the government and supportive institutions, with the arrival of the fifth decade of the rev More

In the years following the Revolution, based on the approach of poverty alleviation, many efforts have been made to establish social justice and divestment through the actions of the government and supportive institutions, with the arrival of the fifth decade of the revolution, the situation of existence shows that despite spending a lot of financial and human resources, all of these efforts have not enjoyed the expected effectiveness in reducing poverty and deprivation. Considering that support for needy individuals and families as one of the components of social justice has been assigned to Imam Khomeini Relief Committee, in this article, by examining some views of political thinkers and sociologists and centralizing the Islamic social justice theory of Imam Khomeini, we are trying to evaluate the performance of the Relief Committee and its impact on social justice. In the statistical analysis, the results obtained from comparing the population supported by the Relief Committee to the population of the country and the population below the poverty line and comparing the statistics of the population supported by the Relief Committee in the supportive headlines compared to the national statistics and the WELFARE Organization, in addition to showing the appropriate performance of the Relief Committee in support of the poor and the poor and its impact on the realization of social justice in line with the political theory of justice. The Islamic sociality of Imam Ali (a) can also be explaine Manuscript profile

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169 - Impact of Export and Trade Performance on Organizational Strategies (Case Study: Quds Razavi Bread Company)
Omid Behboodi Maryam Ashjaei Arash Apornak

Today, strategies are one of the most important issues facing managers of organizations. The strategic plan will be useful and effective for the organization while the developed strategies are implemented in line with each other. The purpose of this study is to investig More

Today, strategies are one of the most important issues facing managers of organizations. The strategic plan will be useful and effective for the organization while the developed strategies are implemented in line with each other. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of the company's export and Trade performance of organizational strategies. The present study is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-survey in terms of data collection method. The statistical population of this study, managers working in different units of Razavi Bread Company were studied. The sample was obtained with the standard questionnaire tool and based on Cochran's formula with an error of 0.05 to 100 people. Cronbach's alpha was used to confirm the reliability of the questionnaire and confirmatory factor analysis was used for the validity of the questionnaire. The obtained values indicate the confirmation of the reliability and validity of the questionnaire. Also, data analysis was performed by structural equation modeling method using smart pls software.The results showed that IT strategies affect Trade performance, marketing strategies affect Trade and export performance, and finally organizational strategies affect overall performance. Manuscript profile

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170 - a review of the investigation methods and performance of pure polymer gears
Rasool Molhsenzadeh ehsan nozad bonab

Plastic gears are widely used in various industries. The advantages of these gears include their lightness, automation, low noise, easy production and low cost. However, the high wear rate, limited working temperature and low mechanical strength in polymer gears, compar More

Plastic gears are widely used in various industries. The advantages of these gears include their lightness, automation, low noise, easy production and low cost. However, the high wear rate, limited working temperature and low mechanical strength in polymer gears, compared to metal types, limit their application. Therefore, extensive research has been done on the performance of polymer gears in order to identify the failure mechanisms. Among the conducted researches, the researchers focus on different parts such as determining the critical torque or in other words, load bearing capacity, gear behavior at lower and higher torques than the critical torque, gear fatigue resistance, gear wear behavior on a micro and macro scale, as well as The thermal resistance of the gear is drawn. In addition, the difference in methods and the provision of new methods for checking the mentioned factors in order to check the performance of the gear can be seen in the research. In general, the type of polymer, torque and work cycle have been recognized as factors influencing the wear of polymer gears. In this research, the method and results of the research conducted on various types of gears made with commonly used polymer materials are presented. In such a way that by comparing the performance of all types of gears, it is possible to reach a general conclusion about their use. Manuscript profile

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171 - The role of self-regulation (cognitive and meta-cognitive strategies) in the academic performance of third-year high school students in Babol
Leila Lotfi Nia Firoz Jah

The purpose of this research was the role of self-regulation (cognitive and meta-cognitive strategies) in the academic performance of third-year students of experimental sciences in Babol high schools. In this research, self-regulation (cognitive and meta-cognitive stra More

The purpose of this research was the role of self-regulation (cognitive and meta-cognitive strategies) in the academic performance of third-year students of experimental sciences in Babol high schools. In this research, self-regulation (cognitive and meta-cognitive strategies) and academic performance are considered as criterion variables. The research sample included 150 female and male students of the third year of experimental sciences studying in Babol high schools in 1399-1400, who were selected using a multi-stage cluster sampling method. The results obtained in this research showed that in the whole sample, the role of self-regulation (cognitive and meta-cognitive strategies) and academic performance was 0.25 and 0.25, respectively. Regression was used to determine the contribution of each predictor variable in determining the criterion variable. The results of the analysis showed that self-regulation contributed to explaining the variance of academic performance. Self-esteem did not contribute to explaining the variance of academic performance. Manuscript profile

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172 - Optimal Design and Analysis of Fault Current Limiter Based on Variable Air-Core Series Reactor
Moslem Amini Faskhoodi Aliakbar Damaki Aliabad

With the ongoing growth of the power networks and the increase of the short circuit current level in the power network, it’s necessary to use the equipment for limiting the short circuit faults. One of these equipment is fault current limiters (FCLs) based on variable r More

With the ongoing growth of the power networks and the increase of the short circuit current level in the power network, it’s necessary to use the equipment for limiting the short circuit faults. One of these equipment is fault current limiters (FCLs) based on variable reactor that they have simple structure and effective performance. This paper presents an optimal design of new fault current limiter based on variable series reactor. It is very important to obtain the optimal dimensions of the proposed FCL to achieve the best performance with considering parameters of the FCL such as performance time, initial inductance and final inductance. Hence, at the first, the proposed plan is introduced and then an analytical modeling based on equations of the reactor is used to evaluate and optimize the proposed FCL. Finally, the results of optimization are compared with results of primary design. These results confirm that the performance of optimal plan is much better than the primary plan. Manuscript profile

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173 - A review of the literature and future directions in the functional development of sustainability in the tourism industry
SHAHRAM RAFIEI NAEINI Atena Herfehgar Mitra Hosseinpour Sharafshad Mahbube Jurjani

In recent decades, the outlook for economic activities in the tourism and hospitality industries has been increasingly unstable. Despite the high number of articles published in sustainability science with different approaches and topics, it has been extremely scattered More

In recent decades, the outlook for economic activities in the tourism and hospitality industries has been increasingly unstable. Despite the high number of articles published in sustainability science with different approaches and topics, it has been extremely scattered. The purpose of the preliminary review is to provide a structured overview of published articles related to the evaluation of sustainability performance in the tourism and hospitality industry and documentation in terms of the current state of the literature, categorization of published articles, analysis and linking to the studied trends. and also, to highlight gaps and provide scientific research recommendations. The method and investigation in this proposed research include two consecutive methodological steps. First, how to identify articles as a data collection approach and then how to analyze these articles. In this article, the results show that the sustainability assessment models in the tourism and hospitality industry should be more balanced, criteria and relationships should be defined in an appropriate way, and the subjectivity of subjective criteria inherent in sustainability indicators should be considered. To deal with this mentality, other analytical methods and group decision-making techniques can be used that can deal with uncertainty, conflicting indicators and linguistic evaluations and can be used in future works. By presenting research gaps, this review encourages researchers to develop practically applicable sustainability performance assessment frameworks to help assess and compare the degree of sustainability and lead to more sustainable business practices. This review defines the sustainability performance assessment of tourism and hospitality companies for the first time, examines the gap between sustainability accounting and sustainability assessment, and provides a structured overview of innovative research recommendations on the integration of analytical assessment methods into unique sustainability conceptual frameworks provides. Manuscript profile

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174 - Identifying the factors influencing the performance of employees during the Corona crisis by thematic analysis
shohreh namjouyan maysam chegin marziyeh mohammadi

The spread of Covid-19 caused a significant transformation in the way people and organizations live and work. Therefore, to stay competitive on the labor market, organizations must develop comprehensive strategies that allow them to identify their environmental opportu More

The spread of Covid-19 caused a significant transformation in the way people and organizations live and work. Therefore, to stay competitive on the labor market, organizations must develop comprehensive strategies that allow them to identify their environmental opportunities and threats in accordance with market conditions. In addition, they must continue their activities. Tehran has taken place. The main question of this study is: What factors affected the performance of the employees of the contracting company during the Corona crisis? To answer this question, theories and models related to the subject and previous research have been investigated. Research in the current study is based on qualitative methods and an exploratory approach. The statistical sample of this research, which was selected by the snowball method and in a targeted manner, includes 14 managers and experts of a large contracting company in the metropolis of Tehran. The requirement was extracted using thematic analysis method. The results included 60 open codes in the form of 4 main concepts and 16 sub-themes. The results of the research showed that the 4 main criteria of organizational culture, job satisfaction, leadership and management, and finally, information and communication technology have the greatest effect in modifying the negative effects of the covid-19 disease on the performance of employees. Based on the results obtained, the 4 main criteria of organizational culture (with a weight of 0.446), satisfaction Job (with a weight equal to 0.331), leadership and management (with a weight equal to 0.152) and finally technology Information and communication (with a weight equal to 0.070) respectively have the greatest effect in modifying negative effects The covid-19 disease has an effect on the performance of employees. Manuscript profile

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175 - The effect of ethnic identity and the geographical location of the house on the academic performance of students
Saed Abadian

Ethnicity refers to a group that is distinguished from other social groups that have racial continuity and correlation with basic anatomical features such as religion, religion, language, customs and historical and cultural heritage. These factors cause a person to use More

Ethnicity refers to a group that is distinguished from other social groups that have racial continuity and correlation with basic anatomical features such as religion, religion, language, customs and historical and cultural heritage. These factors cause a person to use them to establish a relationship with other ethnic groups or individuals and groups. Ethnicity has both subjective and objective components, which include: subjective interest and awareness of identity, belonging, common resources, Common interests, objective cultural commonalities in the language of the historical history of religion and the common land. Set against the backdrop of a politically motivated ethnic hatred between the northern region and the rest, this study shows the relationship between students' regions of origin and their academic performance in world higher education to help support students' appropriate support and healthy study habits. The thematic analysis of the researchers' data showed that students believe that effort is more important in academic performance regardless of the region of origin. Implications for educational policy that utilize healthy study habits to increase student achievement, retention, and self-efficacy around success are discussed. Manuscript profile

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176 - Emerging technologies in future generations of high performance computing: introduction, taxonomy and future research directions
mahmood nematollahzadeh ehsan arianyan Masoud Hayeri Khyavi niloofar gholipoor abdollah sepahvand

Due to the rapid growth of science and technology, their need for high performance computing is increasing everyday. So far, the majority of the world's high performance computing needs have been based on conventional silicon-based technologies, but the end of the age o More

Due to the rapid growth of science and technology, their need for high performance computing is increasing everyday. So far, the majority of the world's high performance computing needs have been based on conventional silicon-based technologies, but the end of the age of silicon-based technologies is near, and this fact has led scientists to use emerging technologies such as quantum computing, bio computing, optical computing and similar technologies. Although some of these technologies are not new and the initial introduction of some of them dates back to some decades ago, but due to the attractiveness of classical silicon-based computing and the speed of development in it, have been neglected to date. However, recently, these technologies have begun to be used to build scalable high performance computers. In this paper, we introduce these technologies and how they participate in the field of high performance computing, their current and future status, and their challenges. Also, the taxonomy related to each of these technologies from the computational point of view as well as their research topics are presented, which can be utilized for future research in this field. Manuscript profile

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177 - Identifying factors affecting financing and its effect on the performance of production and distribution companies in the cooperative sector
Hadi Movludian seyed hesam vaghfi Effat Akbari Sedighe Kamranrad

Hadi Movludian SeyedHessam Vaghfi Effat akbari Sedighe Kamranrad Abstract The issue of financing and attracting capital is among the important and influential factors in the decision-making process in organizations and companies. The present research wa More

Hadi Movludian SeyedHessam Vaghfi Effat akbari Sedighe Kamranrad Abstract The issue of financing and attracting capital is among the important and influential factors in the decision-making process in organizations and companies. The present research was carried out with the aim of investigating the optimal methods for financing the production-distribution cooperative companies of Kashmer city. The statistical population of the current research includes all types of production cooperative companies active in Kashmer city, which number 148 companies. The statistical sample of the research was selected using the Kokoran formula of 85 companies. This research was carried out using the survey method (field research) of distributing questionnaires with standard components and with the help of managers of cooperative companies, experts and experts in the field of cooperatives of the General Department of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare of Kashmer city. To perform the final analysis in the descriptive and inferential statistics section, exploratory factor analysis methods and structural equations were used with the help of Spss 24 and smartpls.3 software. The results of the research showed that the economic status of the members is in the first place, the participation and cooperation of the banks in the second place, Macro political and economic factors in the third place, supporting policies in the fourth place and people's participation in the fifth place are the effective factors on the financing of production-distribution cooperative companies in Kashmar city. Also, the results showed that the financing methods of production-distribution companies of the cooperative sector affect their performance. So that the variable of the economic status of the cooperative members has the most influence and the variable of people's participation has the least influence on the performance of the production cooperative companies active in Kashmer city. Manuscript profile

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178 - Working Capital Behavior of Firms under Economic Recession: Evidence from Tehran Capital Market
Meysam Kaviani فرشاد بزرگی nikfarjam farzad

In the current challenging economy with increasing environmental pressures and limited external resources, current assets and liabilities, i.e., the working capital of economic enterprises, are increasingly important, and the working capital of economic enterprises can More

In the current challenging economy with increasing environmental pressures and limited external resources, current assets and liabilities, i.e., the working capital of economic enterprises, are increasingly important, and the working capital of economic enterprises can be considered as a competitive advantage for them. The working capital of the company is the amount invested in current assets. Working capital is considered as a life-giving force for every economic unit and its management should be considered as an important function in management. The purpose of this research is to investigate and analyze the working capital behavior of companies under economic recession in Tehran's capital market. For this purpose, the information of the companies in the period of 10 years from 2013 to 2022 was reviewed and 110 companies were selected. In order to test the hypotheses of the research, multivariate regression method was used. The results showed that the economic recession has a significant impact on the components of working capital management, while the shock from the production sector does not affect them considering the role of financial constraints. The results also showed that the economic recession has a positive effect on the ratio of working capital and a negative effect on the cash conversion cycle, and finally that the economic recession, while having a negative effect on performance, is also affected by the shock from the production sector with the moderating role of financial restrictions. Manuscript profile

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179 - The effect of targeted organizational forgetting on organizational performance with the mediating role of knowledge management in sports and youth departments in the northwest of the country
taher Jabbari Dastjerd Kazem Mehri Mohammad nasiri

The purpose of this research was the effect of targeted organizational forgetting on organizational performance with the role of knowledge management mediator in sports and youth departments in the northwest of the country. The current research was of a descriptive-corr More

The purpose of this research was the effect of targeted organizational forgetting on organizational performance with the role of knowledge management mediator in sports and youth departments in the northwest of the country. The current research was of a descriptive-correlation type and applied in terms of purpose, which was carried out by the field method. The statistical population of this research included all managers and employees of sports and youth departments in the northwestern provinces of the country. 301 participants were selected as a statistical sample using random sampling method. The data was collected through a questionnaire (alpha coefficient was above 0.8). For data analysis, descriptive statistics (such as tables, mean, standard deviation) and inferential statistics (Pearson correlation coefficient, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling) were used using SPSS and PLS software. The results showed that purposeful forgetting had a positive and significant effect on knowledge management (p=0.001). Also, knowledge management and purposeful forgetting had positive and significant effects on organizational performance (p=0.001 and p=0.001). In this research, we investigated the mediating role of knowledge management as well as innovation in the relationship between organizational forgetfulness and organizational performance, and the research results showed that knowledge management mediates the relationship between organizational forgetfulness and organizational performance. The results show that through effective organizational forgetting, organizations are able to transform knowledge into a new product, service and process, which brings innovative managerial and operational results. Manuscript profile

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180 - The Role of Conscious Control Propensity in Determining the Effects of Attentional Foci instructions
Mohammad Tollabi Elaheh Arab Ameri Mehdi Shahbazi Alireza Babaei Mazreno Fatemeh Sadat Tabatabaei

Background: In this research, we investigated the role of conscious control propensity in determining the effects of attentional foci on performance and learning of basketball accuracy pass in children (10-12 years old). Materials and Methods: To determine the children More

Background: In this research, we investigated the role of conscious control propensity in determining the effects of attentional foci on performance and learning of basketball accuracy pass in children (10-12 years old). Materials and Methods: To determine the children’s conscious control propensity, the Movement Specific Reinvestment Scale was used. Seventy-two children in two high and low conscious control groups that each group divided to three sub-groups (internal, external, and control) entered the acquisition and transfer and retention tests in the basketball accuracy pass task. Results: The results showed that during the acquisition period, low and high conscious control propensity did not have any effect. Though there was a significant interaction between conscious control propensity and attentional foci in transfer and retention tests, but the main effects were not significant. Conclusion: Based on these results, children's motor learning is more effective when the instructions for attentional foci suited their natural tendencies. Manuscript profile

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181 - The effect of targeted organizational forgetting on organizational performance with the mediating role of knowledge management in sports and youth departments in the northwest of the country
taher Jabbari Dastjerd Kazem Mehri mohammad nasiri

Taher Jabbari Dastjerd Kazem Mehri Mohammad Nasiri Abstract The purpose of this research was the effect of targeted organizational forgetting on organizational performance with the role of knowledge management mediator in sports and youth departments in the More

Taher Jabbari Dastjerd Kazem Mehri Mohammad Nasiri Abstract The purpose of this research was the effect of targeted organizational forgetting on organizational performance with the role of knowledge management mediator in sports and youth departments in the northwest of the country. The current research was of a descriptive-correlation type and applied in terms of purpose, which was carried out by the field method. The statistical population of this research included all managers and employees of sports and youth departments in the northwestern provinces of the country. 301 participants were selected as a statistical sample using random sampling method. The data was collected through a questionnaire (alpha coefficient was above 0.8). For data analysis, descriptive statistics (such as tables, mean, standard deviation) and inferential statistics (Pearson correlation coefficient, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling) were used using SPSS and PLS software. The results showed that purposeful forgetting had a positive and significant effect on knowledge management (p=0.001). Also, knowledge management and purposeful forgetting had positive and significant effects on organizational performance (p=0.001 and p=0.001). In this research, we investigated the mediating role of knowledge management as well as innovation in the relationship between organizational forgetfulness and organizational performance, and the research results showed that knowledge management mediates the relationship between organizational forgetfulness and organizational performance. The results show that through effective organizational forgetting, organizations are able to transform knowledge into a new product, service and process, which brings innovative managerial and operational results. Manuscript profile

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182 - Investigation of the Level of Consumption and the Effects of Sports Supplements on the Satisfaction and Performance Quality of Bodybuilding Athletes
Mohamad Ilanloo Alireza Eizadi Behzad Divkan

Background: The use of different kinds of dietary supplements is rising dramatically on a global scale these days. These substances include multifunctional performance-enhancing supplements, herbal supplements, and everyday vitamins. The main objective of this research More

Background: The use of different kinds of dietary supplements is rising dramatically on a global scale these days. These substances include multifunctional performance-enhancing supplements, herbal supplements, and everyday vitamins. The main objective of this research is to find out how bodybuilding athletes' performance quality, muscle efficiency, and degree of satisfaction are affected by sports supplements. Materials and Methods: This study used a survey approach conducted in the field using a standardized questionnaire in conjunction with a descriptive-analytical research design. The study's statistical population included 131 participants who were among the top ten bodybuilding competitors at national championships. For statistical analysis, Friedman and linear regression tests were used after the data was collected. Results: The study results suggest that the majority of respondents concur that the use of sports supplements directly affects the functioning of body muscles. Moreover, the prolonged use of supplements that enhance weight and muscle volume has an increased effect on the performance of these athletes. The benefits of sports supplements are particularly noticeable throughout the second to fourth years of training for bodybuilding athletes as they continue to use these supplements. Conclusion: Evidence suggests that sports supplements have a discernible influence on muscle efficiency and the performance of bodybuilding athletes. Nevertheless, the use of sports supplements does not have a substantial impact on athlete satisfaction. Manuscript profile

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183 - Investigating the role of social capital in the performance of Tonekabon border cooperatives
Ebrahim Shiroud Ashourian میثم موسائی شهلا کاظم پور

Border Cooperatives are one of the most populous cooperatives that were established with the aim of increasing the level of welfare and economic power of border people and due to the fragile employment situation and economic activities in border areas, they need double More

Border Cooperatives are one of the most populous cooperatives that were established with the aim of increasing the level of welfare and economic power of border people and due to the fragile employment situation and economic activities in border areas, they need double support and their performance should be considered. In this regard, the present study, using the survey method and the use of SPSS and Smart PLS software, seeks to answer the main question: what is the role of social capital in the performance of Tonekabon border cooperatives? The statistical population of the present study is all members of Tonekabon city border cooperatives, whose number according to the latest statistics is about 92,000 people and 384 of them were selected using the Cochran's formula as the sample size. The results indicate that between the total amount of social capital (0.34) and its dimensions, ie social trust (0.38), social participation (0.41), social cohesion (0.30), social support (0.27) 0), social awareness (0.35), social communication (0.36) with the political participation of citizens there is a positive, direct and significant relationship. Therefore, all research hypotheses are confirmed. The results of the structural equation model (Smart PLS) also showed that the total effect of the independent variable of social capital on the performance of frontier cooperatives is 0.55, which by considering the values of the volume of the effect of the coefficient of determination of this value in the amount Average (0.30) is estimated. Manuscript profile

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184 - Investigating the Relationship Between Sexual Conversation and Sexual Performance of Married Women in Shiraz
fatemeh zarei kazem khorramdel Hajar Kohansal

<p>This research aimed to investigate the relationship between sexual dialogue and the sexual performance of married women in Shiraz in the year 1402 (Shamsi). Our statistical population was married women living in Shiraz who had experienced sexual intercourse within th More

<p>This research aimed to investigate the relationship between sexual dialogue and the sexual performance of married women in Shiraz in the year 1402 (Shamsi). Our statistical population was married women living in Shiraz who had experienced sexual intercourse within the past six months. From this population, 200 people were selected using convenience sampling and responded to the questionnaires. Data were collected using the Sexual Relationship Pattern questionnaire, the Arizona sexual experience scale questionnaire (women's form), and a demographic questionnaire. Data analysis was conducted using Pearson's correlation coefficient test in SPSS software. The results showed a significant positive relationship between sexual conversation and sexual performance. It can be explained that among women who had more sexual dialogue, there was greater satisfaction in their sexual performance.</p> Manuscript profile

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