STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT THOUGHT (MANAGEMENT THOUGHT)
Year:2016 | Volume:10 | Issue:1 (19) |Papers Count:8

The transformation of social sciences and humanities has been one of the issues considered in various general documents. Consequently, laying the groundwork for the realization of this goal is one of the most serious activities of relevant centers and institutions. This, however, requires first and foremost effecting changes in the scientific community itself, because as long as the academic community, who have a key role in advancing science, do not improve, there will be no hope to bring a change in social sciences and humanities. By accepting this, the first question, therefore, is how to transform the scientific community.This paper attempts to examine the scientific and practical conduct of late Allameh Tabataba'i, a major Islamic scholar, in modifying the Qom Seminary and explain the necessities of change in the scientific community and thereby suggest some measures for policy making in the specified area. These necessities can be classified in three categories: moral qualities, competencies, and activities (preparative and corrective measures).

Preaching and Da'wah methods of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) are compared and analyzed with the various aspects of management science. His strategies toward dissidents and adherents of other religions express the essential principles of interaction and communication with People of the Scripture around the world in this age, and those who want to govern the society should follow and comply with this divine example.In addition, the concept of social marketing, which is one of the latest philosophies of marketing in management science, claims to enhance and promote the ideas and concepts of social development. This makes studying and comparing these two concepts i.e. the managerial method of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) for preaching and Da'wah and the concept of social marketing have particular importance.This study adopts an objective research approach in the attempt to demonstrate the Quranic principles governing the managerial method of preaching of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) in relation to the People of the Scripture. After studying 291main and secondary verses of the Quran and classifying the concepts under multiple categories, 10 principles for preaching and Da'wah of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) were obtained.Finally, with respect to the theoretical literature, these10 principles for preaching and Da' wah have been compared with the concept of social marketing.

Compulsory military service in the Islamic Republic of Iran has its impact on a good portion of Iranian young males', including the married ones, life. Regardless of the military service advantages and disadvantages, married soldiers have their special problems. Due to the increase in the rate of young students' marriage and family formation, the stability of marriage by removing its barriers is important. The purpose of this study is a deep study of married soldiers' lived experience. Therefore, a phenomenological approach has been adopted. During the study, eight semi-structured interviews were conducted with married men. The information and data were analyzed through Giorgi approach and findings were categorized under 12 themes and 12 sub-themes. The main themes of married soldiers lived experience are: economic problems, employment problems, life disorder, stress, academic improvement problems, feeling of abandonment after the service, favoritism, barriers to long-term planning and social opportunities, neglect of social status, lack of understanding married soldiers' problems, and systematic problems of occupation and marriage.

This article is part of a qualitative research with grounded theory method in which 22 of Isfahan cultural executives were selected through targeted sampling.  The data was collected by semi-structured interviews and analyzed by qualitative nvivo8 software followed by research model presentation. The findings of this study are divided in two groups:  1) Barriers (emphasis on organizational hierarchy, the upper layers of decisions, limitations of resources and ambiguous indicators of measuring performance), 2) Propulsion systems (continuous environmental monitoring, consultation with experts, an effective understanding of the competitors, intuition-based decisions, creative staffing and targeted investment).

This paper aims to design a general management system for the Islamic culture, using Soft Systems Methodology. At the first stage of methodology, i.e. exploring the problem, the components of the system are introduced and categorized in two types: Sections that have direct relation with people and those which have protective role. Afterwards, a rich picture indicating the existing condition and defects of managing the culture of society is displayed. In the stage of CATWOE table provision and developing root definitions, common people are defined as the addressees of the system and by starting the system design from people’s point of view (bottom-up process), the system functions that raise the Islamic culture of people are grouped into six types: education, setting patterns, creating healthy cultural environment, support and reverence, preaching, and creating an environment of relating with God and saints. Meanwhile, after specifying the types of relationships between system components, the process required for determining relationships between all components based on system functions are suggested.Ultimately, in the conceptual modeling stage of SSM methodology, the process of designing and implementing system functions are introduced. To validate and increase the precision of the findings, questionnaire method and interview with specialists and experts that have practical experiments in this field have been used. The research findings explain the process of determining actions that must be performed by each government sections for promoting Islamic culture in the society and suggest the manner of general management of the Islamic culture system.

Background: The presence of organized markets for trading agricultural commodities can play an important role in developing the agricultural sector as one of the most pivotal components of the economic development of the country. The aim of this study is to identify factors affecting lack of boom in the agricultural ring (compared with petrochemical and metals rings) in Iran's Mercantile Exchange. Ratings and offering strategies to overcome obstacles as well as other objectives are addressed in this study.Methods: This study is an applied descriptive and correlation type, structural equation model-based. From approximately 250 experts in the field of commodity exchange trading, 145 people were selected randomly. To collect information, a questionnaire was designed and after checking the validity and reliability, it was distributed among the sample population. In this study, SPSS and LISREL software where used for data analysis.Results: All elements introduced in the model as the factors affecting lack of boom in the agricultural trading in Iran's Mercantile Exchange were confirmed.Conclusion: The results indicate that the factors affecting lack of boom in the agricultural ring can be divided into three main groups: the government macro factors, the factors related to the commodity exchange and structural factors of the agricultural sector. Each group contains several separate components. The boom in the agricultural ring in Iran's Mercantile Exchange needs developing solutions and implementing policies to address each of these factors.

This study aims to examine the direct effect of ethnocentrism and animosity toward accepting South Korean products in Iran and Turkey. The statistical population were above 18 years of age. The data were collected from residents of Iran and Turkey. A total of 773 usable questionnaires were returned. Two questionnaires were provided in two national languages of both countries. To analyze data, structural equation models including confirmatory factor analysis and path analysis were used. The results showed that besides their mental image of South Korea as the country of origin, Iranian consumers also involve their ethnocentric biases when they purchase Korean products. Thus, for encouraging consumers to buy them, producers should manufacture the products in the host country to gratify consumers' ethnocentricity, while at the same time they keep the original product brand.