14 articles in this issue
Aidin Salamzadeh, David A. Kirby
Start-ups, often seen as sources of innovation and change, are prone to failure and accordingly they are attracting considerable attention not least from policy makers and Government officials. However, the various new venture creation studies that have e... see more
Sara Yousefikhah
This theoretical paper describes the effect of social action on technological artifacts and explores how innovation may flourish or be diminished in society. Using the Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) perspective, three main elements namely,... see more
Mike Friedrichsen, Hadi Zarea, Amin Tayebi, Fatemeh Asadi Saeed Abad
Universities have shown a strong desire to commercialize researches and innovations. As a result, they are increasingly weaning themselves from public budgets. Commercialization has become the gateway for privatization, but the improper selection of comme... see more
Fatemeh Hamidi, Naser Shams Gharneh
Traditional firms used to design products, evaluate marketing messages and control product distribution channels with no costumer interface. With the advancements in interaction technologies, however, users can easily make im... see more
Datis Khajeheian
Media Entrepreneurship has been an ambiguous, unclear and controversial concept and despite of growing academic efforts in the last decade, it is still a poorly defined subject. This paper is an effort to fill this gap by providing a comprehensive definit... see more
Banafsheh Dastourian, Hiroko Kawamorita Kesim, Nader Seyyed Amiri, Somayeh Moradi
Women entrepreneurship plays a key role in the economic growth. This study investigates the mediatory role of innovation concerning the effect of social capital on entrepreneurship. The sample population included 130 female e... see more
Somayeh Labafi
Transmission and popularization of knowledge among personnel leads to a functional synergy in theinnovation processes of organizations. It has been found that most research on organizations are relatedto knowledge sharing, while the kn... see more
Amitis Moradi Abadi, Artonis Moradi Abadi, Abbas Jafari
The pace of introducing innovation-based products and services to the market is increasingly fast and it significantly affects customer satisfaction, not only for consumer products and services, but also in the delivery of public s... see more
Nader Seyyed Amiri, Said Shirkavand, Mahjabin Chalak, Niloufar Rezaeei
Privatization, partial tariff liberalization and entrance of foreign insurance companies in Iranian market pose serious challenges to domestic insurance companies. This paper discusses competitive intelligence as a means of gaining compe... see more
Saeed Aibaghi Esfahani, Hamid Rezaii, Niloofar Koochmeshki, Saeed Sharifi Parsa
In response to the changes in economies and technology in recent decades, research in organizational theories have been focused toward innovative and entrepreneurial organizations. A research iss... see more
Fozieh Jeyhoon Tabar, Zahra Najafi, Yaser Sistani Badooei
Using the annual data of Iran’s economy from 1981-2012, this study examines Wagner’s law and the Keynesian hypothesis about the relationship between the real government expenditure and the real GDP. In this regard, this paper investigated the relati... see more
Zahra Zare
As well as companies that compete in market, in public health system organizations compete to satisfy customer’s need, and therefore identifying those needs and delivering the value is critical in success. Return to Scale and Damage to Scale are measures.... see more
Naser Shams Gharneh
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