JOURNAL OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT STUDIES
Year:2012 | Volume:3 | Issue:9 |Papers Count:7

While the concept of cultural intelligence is valid universally، the measure of cultural intelligence will vary by context. It must be fitted in each case to aspects of cultural intelligence that assists capability to manage effectively in culturally diverse settings with that particular cultural context. In this paper، with attend to culture of Iranian social، a measurement tool of cultural intelligence was developed that we call it as Iranian Scale of Cultural Intelligence (ICCI). We also examine the relation between ICCI and strategic entrepreneurship. Data are gathered from 221 managers and experts in oil، gas and petrochemical industries and are tested by factor analysis and regression methods. The results suggest that cultural intelligence is contained three aspects including، perceptual، interactive and confirmative. Moreover، the results indicate that demographic variables such as، gender، age، educational level and experience of cross-cultural interactions are strongly associated with some aspects of cultural intelligence in Iran community. The paper also suggests that cultural intelligence can be recognized as a critical factor in the strategic entrepreneurship; thus، organizations that act in the global contexts must consider managers’ CQ capabilities in their entrepreneurial activities.

The aim of this research is to analyze the strategic positioning adopted by Nowdar Company and to identify the main factors which might have a significant influence on the adoption of physical and perceptual positioning strategies by a firm. Data were collected by distributing a questionnaire among Nowdar Company personnel. The paper considers six firm-specific characteristics which can be associated with the adoption of physical and perceptual positioning strategies which include: technical characteristics, physical characteristics, objective criteria, paying attention to customers’ needs, perceptual characteristics, and subjective criteria. Results show that there is a positive association between technical characteristics and physical positioning, a positive association between subjective criteria and perceptual positioning, a significant relationship between physical positioning and strategic positioning, and a significant relationship between perceptual positioning and strategic positioning.

The purpose of this study was to examine relationship between Organizational intelligence and the quality of services given by the Libraries of Allameh Tabataba’ i University. The statically community of this survey includes tow community: all managers and librarians of Allameh Tabataba’ i University libraries all graduate students (MA and Ph. D. ) the sampling method of this study was stratified sampling. The data were collected by Albrecht OI questionnaire and Libqual questionnaire. The tool used for data analysis was multivariate regression and Pearson correlation test. Research results showed that the overall Organizational intelligence predicted quality of services in libraries of Allameh Tabatabai University. Research results also showed that there is significant relationship between overall Organizational intelligence and quality of services.

Present study is an empirical test of the proposition that strategy content is a key determinant of organizational performance. Strategy content comprises two dimensions of strategic stance and strategic actions. Strategic stance is the extent to which a company is prospector, defender or reactor. Strategic action is the relative emphasis on product or service differentiation, low cost production and distribution, focus on a market niche or a combination of the above actions. Data were drawn from a survey of 129 manufacturing companies which have taken part in four seminars held by Isfahan Chamber of commerce, Isfahan mines and industries institute and Isfahan mine and Industry house, in the first three months of year 1389. The statistical results show that strategy content matters. Market share growth is positively associated with a prospector stance and negatively with a defender stance. ROI and profitability are negatively associated with a reactor stance. Furthermore companies which compete with a combination of differentiation and low cost strategic actions outperform their rivals. Also companies offering their products and services to a wide market will experience a better market share growth andoverall performance in comparison to their rivals servicing a market niche.

The purpose of this study is Survey conflict management styles on executive successful organizational strategy in textual industry in Kurdistan province. In this study for evolution of conflict management styles is used of Slocum et al (2007) theory. For access to this aim 190 people from 12 firms active in textual industry are selected as sample. Current study is applied and descriptive study and is used of questionnaire instrument for data collection. Validity of instrument is done by expert replay and reliability by coronbakh Alfa. The results of this study is indicated first the main conflict management styles in survey industry is Compromise style, second executive successful organizational strategy based of manager and personnel of industry is medium. Third Collaboration style have main direct and indirect impact positive on executive successful organizational strategy. Also Avoidance and compression style have main direct and indirect impact negative on executive successful organizational strategy.

The main goal of the paper is to presenting a multidimensional structure to describing the effect of Maintenance Strategies on Business Performance in Manufacturing Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). This applied research is done as a Survey-Correlation-Cause and Effect Study with the help of 95 Managers of Manufacturing Small and Medium Enterprises in Iran. Cronbach's Alfa is used to assess Reliability and Content and Construct Analysis are used to assess Validity. Data Analysis is done by Confirmative Factor Analysis, Correlation Test, Co linearity Test and Path Analysis. Innovation aspect of this research is to create a new approach to the relation of Maintenance Strategies with Business Performance in MSMEs and selecting an appropriate maintenance strategy for MSMEs. This paper tries to assess the effect of maintenance strategies types on Business Performance. In this research, all relations between Conceptual Models are analyzed quantitatively. The findings show that Predictive Maintenance has the greatest impact on Business Performance. Then, Corrective Maintenance, Total Productive Maintenance and Outsourcing of Maintenance Practices and Activities are important.

The present research has done for studying and explaining the relationship between market learning capability, marketing capability and organizational innovation with sustainable competitive advantage. This research based on outcome is developmental research, which performs via survey and correlation methods. The statistical population is marketing managers and experts in Tehran city Banks that contains about 135 samples (in sum of 35 governmental and private banks). We selected required sample by using of census sampling method. Also, we used descriptive statistics and inferential statistics such as normal test, chi-square test, Spearman correlation coefficient, linear and multiple regression and path analysis for data analysis. Finding show there is significant relationship between markets learning capability with sustainable competitive advantage, but we find market learning capability hasn’ t significant effect on sustainable competitive advantage while using of linear regression. Also, finding reveals there is significant relationship between marketing capabilities with sustainable competitive advantage, market learning capability with organizational innovation, and organizational innovation with sustainable competitive advantage.