JOURNAL OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT STUDIES
Year:2010 | Volume:1 | Issue:3|Papers Count:7

Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP) aren't necessarily justifiable systems for all organizations in direction of their objectives. This matter is very important for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME's) because an erroneous purchase decision in relation expensive project such this can been resulted to destruction of company. evaluating procurement of Enterprise Resource Planning system haven’t been analysed from aspect of organization’s strategic plan in past researchs yet. Thus this research was performed to presenting a model for evaluation of ERP procurement scheme with centralization on realization of strategic plan and focusing on small and medium enterprises. At the stage of constructing model, methodology is perfectly qualitative and base on explorative interviews but at the stage of testing model that is quantitative and its kind is descriptive-analytic and case study. The results depict that ERP procurement scheme for Nasr Pharmaceutical Company has median justification.

This study is mainly attempted to examine the effect of macroeconomic variables on the development of Tehran's Stock Exchange. For so doing, national income, investment rate, financial intermediary development and macroeconomic instability were considered as macroeconomic variables and depth and width as indices of the stock exchange development. Necessary data was collected seasonally in time series during 1998-2007 time period. In the statistical method employed in the current research, we first examined stationary of the variables by Dickey-Fuller Unit Root Test. Then Johansen Cointegration Test was employed to estimate cointegration vectors. Ultimately, to estimate the study models, Vector Error Correction Model was used. Generally Speaking, the findings of the estimations suggest that national income and investment rate have positive significant effect on the depth and width of the stock exchange. Also, financial intermediary development and macroeconomic instability have negative significant effect on the depth and width of the stock exchange.

Nowadays, tourist industry at international level is recognized as an economic, social and cultural element that can play a major role in developing the economy. Unfortunately, Iran inspite of possessing tremendous abilities in tourism, couldn’t find a proper position in that industry. Semnan province which is a part of Iran and possesses many historical, natural and eco-tourist attractions couldn't find a suitable position among different provinces in Iran. So this article strives to examine Semnan province tourist industry and finds its rank among all provinces in Iran. The study has been done via survey method using data from specialized tourist organizations. The analysis show that Semnan rank in terms of tourist is 26 among 30 provinces. Then through a survey method and with the data collected from tourist specialists, the role of marketing mix for promoting tourist industry is analyzed. The findings shows that all marketing mix play an important role in the promotion of tourist industry. At end the most important Semnan tourist industry challenges and pitfalls are recognized and proper recommendations are presented.

Trade policy is one of the most important segments of a nation-state economic policy. The public policymaking in the segment includes developing long and mid-term plans to direct the decision making process on export, import and foreign investment in a country, by which businesses (either private or public) will be able to perfume more effective in international level and foreign marketplaces. On the other hand, in recent three decades globalization forces of economic, political and cultural scales have great impacts on the societies in different ways. In the paper, a model has been suggested to explain the impacts on trade policymaking process of I.R. Iran. Ministry of Commerce, however, was attained as the research source of data, due to the main role of the ministry on trade policy of Iran. The results indicate that economic, political and cultural forces of globalization have great impacts on trade policymaking process and probably would improve level of participation in planning and enhance trust and commitment of policymakers to the policy network.

This study aims at exploring the relationship between political behavior and job innovation. For this purpose, 220 subjects were randomly selected among 1000 employees of Shahid Beheshti University. To measure the variables, the standard questionnaire of job innovation of Martin Patchen (1965) and the political behavior questionnaire of A.J. Dobrin (1978) were used. Based on research analysis the main hypothesis assuming the relationship between job innovation and the tendency toward political behavior was accepted. The findings indicated a meaningful and negative relationship between job innovation and the tendency toward political behavior meaning that as the tendency toward political behavior increases, job innovation decreases. The analysis of the secondary hypotheses reveals that there is a negative relationship between job innovation and flattery, political application of information, the creation of moral obligation, and association with influential individuals. But there is no relationship between job innovation and imagery (creating a favorable image of self), and establishing a supporting base. Furthermore, there is a significant and negative relationship between job innovation and age. Women are more innovative in their jobs than men.

This study aims to clarify the role of management consulting industry on industrial development. The speed rate of industrial development in developing countries such as Iran is low. Therefore it necessitates applying shortcuts to overcome such problems. Application of these shortcuts is the basis underlying this study. The research is fundamental and is conducted using descriptive and survey method. Data gathering was based on related literature (documents), questionnaires and interviews. Information of 127 countries was used for testing the conceptual model. Correlation test approved the hypothesis (conceptual model), and we can claim that management consulting industry influences the industrial development.

Many organizations, regardless of the size and amount of business the importance of social capital as a source of competitive and sustainable basis for innovation and excellence and versatility they have confessed. The subject of this article explains the model design and social capital in order to achieve excellence is the Tehran municipality. For the next two independent variables, including internal and external trust, norms, religious values, networks and partnerships law is not for the dependent variable is considered later. This type of research has been applied and the geographic territory of 22 districts of Tehran municipality-level organizational experts, heads of departments, deputies and regional managers have been. Descriptive research method that is correlated to stratified random sampling with 342 samples have been conducted. Also, correlation analysis, regression analysis, structural equation modeling and Friedman test for data analysis has been used. The results of this study showed that the Tehran Municipality between social capital and organizational excellence and significant positive relationship exists. Clearer words, increasing social capital and promote excellence and eminent organization improved.