STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT THOUGHT (MANAGEMENT THOUGHT)
Year:2012 | Volume:5 | Issue:2 (10)|Papers Count:8

The implementation of our national strategic direction (jihad-e-eghtesadi) depends on a managerial package. The core function of academic community is modeling the process of jihad-e-eghtesadi implementation.Operationalization of this national strategic direction is based on interactions between public managers and policy makers. The purpose of this paper is increasing the understanding of major actors of national governance by providing the conceptual model of implementation of jihad-e- eghtesadi. The policy coherence is the explanatory variable of this model. How we can model the implementation of jihad-e- eghtesadi and what our challenges are is what we address in this paper.

Interdisciplinary studies, especially in the Islamic domain, have been attractive to researchers in recent years. Research methodology, however, remains one of the main issues in this aspect. Introducing and explaining a reliable and valid method for Islamic management research as depicted by the Holy Quran is the main purpose of this paper. To this end, the concept of Quranic contemplation and interpretation, and related interpretive methods and approaches are briefly discussed, and interdisciplinary management studies derived from the Holy Quran in recent decades are explained and those studies that have used these methods are categorized. Inductively, five strategies for Quranic contemplation methodology have been identified; sign- (Ayah) oriented context- (siagh) oriented, sura-oriented, story-oriented and problem-oriented strategies. Each strategy has its own functions, process, strengths and weaknesses that are mentioned here. It can be claimed that there is not a unique form of Quranic contemplation methodology but there are other ways that can be employed according to purpose, subject, researche’r skills, time and etc. At the end of this paper there are two subjects that should be considered for internal and external validation: Itghan (internal) and Ifadah (external) validity and their indexes.

The issue of "spiritual leadership" in the current management literature, is something extraordinary, but all its dimensions have not been investigated yet and it is viewed as a tool.A quick look at the related papers shows that by "spiritual characteristics of leaders" and "spiritual leadership" in the existing scientific literature, it is meant a leadership based on spirituality without religion.Therefore, this paper, by examining the thoughts and behavior of one of the commanders of the Holy Defense, Major General Shahid Ahmad Kazemi, tries to institutionalize a systematic pattern of spiritual leadership based on Islamic values in which God has a pivotal place.In this research, by using the grounded theory, themes and various codes were extracted from 13 sets of interviews with Shahid Kazemi’s friends and relatives.Finally, we achieved a model to explain the formation of a pattern based on various aspects of spiritual leaders and their relations with their followers.In this model, several factors such as the growth environment, effective backgrounds to the individual’s development, knowledge and self-discipline and the commander’s characteristics and behaviors leading to the establishment of emotional, intellectual and behavioral influence on subordinate are involved.

Recent leadership approach in the West affirms that the main factor for an effective leader is his personal exaltation and achievements called personal development process (PDP). Authentic leadership theory (AUT) is the main theory discussing PDP. PDP is the main factor affecting the behavior and actions of the leader and his followers. This process leads to successful leadership and productivity in our changeable world.This article aims to seek an answer to the challenges of authentic leadership theory from the perspective of Allameh Tabatabai. According to Allameh Tabatabai, empirical science is not enough to acquire knowledge about personal development. Also, moral/ethical foundations are not the only resources of the development process. Hence, these factors cannot lead to successful leadership and subordinates' obedience. Allameh Tabatabai suggests a different definition of leadership and obedience through a logical explanation.

Thematic analysis is one of the most appropriate analytical techniques in qualitative research, which is widely used, but has rarely been introduced.Thematic analysis can be used effectively to identify patterns in qualitative data. Template analysis and thematic networks are analysis tools that are commonly used in thematic analysis. Template analysis provides a list of themes in a hierarchical table. Thematic networks are web-like illustrations that summarize the relationship between themes.This paper aims to introduce the thematic analysis and related techniques briefly and in a practical way. First, the thematic analysis position in qualitative research is addressed. Then some concepts, techniques and important decisions in the thematic analysis are briefly described. By synthesizing different methods of thematic analysis, a step by step process for implementing this method is introduced. Also, some potential pitfalls in conducting thematic analysis are considered. Finally, the paper offers some validity and reliability criteria for thematic analysis and outlines the disadvantages and advantages of it and provides some suggestions for further research. In addition, in order to have a better understanding of the method, some parts of the paper offer examples of a study that has been conducted with this method and with computer aided qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS). jointly.

The basic and serious problem in humanities and in particular syncretistic studies is the lack of a specific and comprehensive methodological model, in a way that one can separate different theories coming from related fields as a regular, orderly, relative and cohesive structure.In this paper, we deal with the pathology of interdisciplinary studies as the most important barrier in humanities development. After introducing "methodological exclusivism” as the most important problem, we pose "methodological pluralism" as a solution to this problem in interdisciplinary studies. The result of this problem solving is a conceptual syncretistic model based on documental studies. The Lakatos-Kuhn syncretistic model, as a methodological model, helps to understand proportion and cohesiveness between Islamic management studies and current managerial issues and theorize interdisciplinary studies of Islamic management.The basic hypothesis of this paper directed to explain the developed syncretistic model is that Islamic management studies in general are nonholistic and done without any specific research plan. In fact, the two paradigms of Islamic and current management studies are adapted and compiled with each other without considering their proportion and cohesiveness. This hypothesis is tested by using the content analysis approach based on the theoretical history of Islamic management and selected studies related to this field since 1980s in Iran.

The holy religion of Islam has set rules and regulations for every aspect of life including business and economic activities. Although it seems that Islamic rules and regulations have not created a specific business or economic system on their own, they require particular principles to be observed to reach the ultimate goal of creation.The current research is of fundamental type and has attempted to recognize principles required to be observed by activists in marketing section according to Islamic guidelines and present a definition regarding the aforementioned principles and design a basic conceptual model of Islamic marketing. In order to achieve the above results, the two main following questions must be answered: What parts and elements are included in marketing and professional activities of marketing.What is Islam’s perspective regarding the elements of marketing and marketing activity.The current study attempts to answer the above questions and collect related concepts of marketing from the Quran and authentic Hadith sources and provide a framework based on classic marketing model of Kotler. Then, we classified the contemplative foundation and associated activities with any elements of marketing process using research literature. Subsequently, the Islamic perspective regarding major and minor elements of marketing were recognized and thus Islamic marketing was analyzed and a basic conceptual model of Islamic marketing as well as a definition of Islamic marketing were presented.