JOURNAL OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT STUDIES
Year:2017 | Volume:7 | Issue:28 |Papers Count:11

Developing competition in business forced companies to have special attention to environmental changes, innovation and its dimensions in business or organization in order to achieve competitive advantage. Competitive intelligence make a basis of innovation process, but lack of strategic Thinking in organizations causes inefficiency and ineffectiveness of this way for achieving organizational innovation. The main goal of this article is checking the mediator role of strategic Thinking of organization level on effect of competitive intelligence on organization organizational innovation. The methodology of the study is quantitative and descriptive and branch of regression. For collecting data, related to variables, we used questionnaires that asessed, organizational innovation for the first time in Iran on the basis of suggested traits by Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Therefore, 100 samples include managers of Qom's insurance companies’ agents’ choosed simple random sample. The results of Pearson regression showed that all features of competitive intelligence on organizational innovation and also strategic Thinking have regression couple by couple. With performing the model of structural equations by minimum trivial square for hypothesis testing, specified that suggested model has a good to assess and also organization strategic Thinking as a mediator has been effective in amount of 66 percent on effect of the competitive intelligence on organizational innovation.

As a cognitive bias, myopia deprives managers from discovering new opportunities. In this regard, managers should avoid it. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between managerial myopia and strategies of small and medium companies in Khozestan province. Owing to this, from functional and analytical essence, this study is a correlational one. Consequently, two types of myopia: temporal myopia and spatial myopia have been investigated. For the purpose of reliability, Cronbach alpha was run. To address the hypotheses of the research hierarchial regression was computed with SPSS software. The results revealed that the bias of senior managers on myopia has a positive relationship with persistence of strategy and strategic conformity of small and medium companies.

As of first year in second decade of Iran's 20-year vision plan, the general policies of 6th 5-year development plan was declared by the supreme leader; in which the 2nd article was about "ICT", and its first headline was "obtaining 1st place in region in developing Electronic-Government on the basis of national network of information ". Therefore this research uses strategic audit procedures, like strategic position analysis & analysis of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats to assess current state of affairs & planning strategies for achieving the aforementioned goal. This research, after identification of touching factors for developing e-government, presents 4 classes of strategies: offensive, conservative, defensive & competitive; And considering state & academic elites' comments, and e-government's current state in Iran by multiple attributes decision making, suggests conservative strategies. According to results obtained, "distributing state companies' bonds through banking system & facilitation of activity for physical and/or juridical persons in private sector” is the most effective strategy. "Noticing perceived usefulness for facilitation of using e-services", "using international standards to create a modern & efficient communication network", "using technology acceptance models" & "international cooperation" respectively are next priorities.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of organizational structure on competitive strategy. The method used in this study, the purpose, nature is a descriptive survey. The population of the investigation, all employees of the communications infrastructure, that 420 of person have been selected. Based on the sample size of 201 subjects was selected Morgan. Select the sample, simple random sampling was used. To measure organizational structure (centralization, formalization and complexity) of the research cruise and Gamps (2003) and Palmer and Dunford (2002) was used. In the context of competitive strategies according to Miller (1988 and 1987), three strategies of cost leadership, differentiation strategy, the product or service strategy was to focus on specific product or service. The validity of the study, content and assessment tools to verify internal consistency, Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used. For data analysis, structural equation modeling and LISREL 5. 8 software was used. Data analysis showed that different aspects of the organizational structure of the competitive strategy of the study population have a direct and positive impact.

The tourism industry, to become one of the leading and important industries in the world, made some steps in the path of its development. But the development in such a scale and with such a speed requires to an integrated system to support this industry in crisis situations. With the crisis, the tourism industry, tourists and the local community will be affected. Therefore, public authorities, organizations and large companies working in the tourism industry which considers the crisis management, while able to maintain aspects of sustainability of this industry in a destination and help to pave the way for long term cooperation and planning, can also be crucial for small businesses in the tourism industry. Nonexistence of crisis management plan with approach of tourism can lead to low level of readiness in tourism destinations. Thus, this study will be evaluating the crisis management process in the field of tourism of Ardabil. By objective, this research is an applied and a descriptive survey. The research statistical sample are 120 managers and experts from 19 organizations involved in the field of tourism crisis management of Ardabil and in order to analyze the data, the SPSS and LISREL software were used. The results indicated on a poor assessment of the status of crisis management process in solving the problems of natural disasters and crisis in the field of tourism of Ardabil.

One of the objectives of human resources management at a university system is to develop the knowledge oriented workers' capabilities. The purpose of this study was to Ranke the variables of capabilities development of knowledge oriented worker model using Fuzzy Analysis Hierarchy Process (FAHP). In prior research, these variables were recognized by experts' opinion. To recognize these variables, mixed method was used and research design was conducted in two steps. According to the result of prior research, four development components-educational, research, management and communicative-were identified. This article ranked the indicators of the above-mentioned components.

The main purpose of any process of research is production and development of science, for increasing efficiency and effectiveness. Research in the management is a systematic field in an organization seeking out effective actions to improve and solve the management and organizational issues. Hence the organizations to achieve this goal required tools such as strategy map. The strategy map can indicate the main and key directions achieving the objectives and pay more attention to them. This paper introduces diagraph theory to determine causal relationships in strategic objectives in order to make a strategy map. The results of this approach are provided in Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan. The aim of the present study is practical and the method of data collection is descriptive and survey.

Today, companies are seen as part of the network of relationships that they can gain competitive advantage from networks. This study has been done to analyze the role of dynamic capabilities in relation between external relations of the organization with competitive advantage and quantification of these relationships. For this aim, has been used mix method. Questionnaire was tools for quantification of relations of this research that its reliability and validity was checked by different methods. The questionnaires were distributed in 13th international construction fair in Tehran with random sampling, and 352 returned and complete questionnaires were used for quantitative analysis. The findings show the indirect impact of external social capital on competitive advantage has become much more than direct one. Dynamic capabilities play complement and significant mediator role in this relationship. Government support and enforcement inefficiency and demand uncertainty are environmental moderator variables that have effective impact on research model.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of contingency built on organizational effectiveness in companies based in the industrial town is the city of Sanandaj. In this study, questionnaire was used to collect data. This paper is applied and descriptive. The population includes the 157 employees of companies based in the industrial town of Sanandaj city and the available random sampling has been used. For statistical analysis of data and questionnaire questions, different methods of descriptive statistics and to evaluate the Pearson correlation and regression analysis had been utilized. The results indicate that the internal contingency factors and dimensions of organizational effectiveness have significant relationship. As well as, the size of the contingency factors, internal consistency coefficient (0. 654) had the highest impact on organizational effectiveness and was ranked first. Novelty Products coefficient (0. 279) is in the second and modularity of products (0. 110) is the third and last.

In modern competitive marketing for producers the situation has become harder to compete with other countries’ goods and survive in the markets. Although a large part of competiveness relies on tangible features but Consumer Ethnocentrism is one of essential factors to decrease consumer tendency for the foreign goods. An industry that is severely affected by imported goods is feminine clothes. This study investigates psychosocial factors (nationalism, conservatism, extroversion) by modifiers role age and education variable on Consumer Ethnocentrism. The statistic universe of this study consists of east Tehran women that divided to four clusters mean: north, south, west, east by cluster sampling and then 385 questioners distributed among them. The Results of the research represent that the relationship between conservatism and nationalism is statistically significant but there is no statistically significant relationship between extroversion and Consumer Ethnocentrism. In addition when the age variable appears in modifier role, there is only a significant relationship between conservatism and ethnocentrism and when the education variable appears in modifier role, the relationship between nationalism and Ethnocentrism is the only significant relationship.

The purpose of this study is to design a model for business intelligence system (BIS) using a mixed approach. At First, reviewing historical researches, the metrics of business intelligence system are extracted. Following; the initial variables are evaluated and selected by qulaitative method and focus group. The population consists of commercial managers and experts in a mobile operator in Iran. As the members of population were available, then all population was the sample. Data gathered by questionnaire, and descriptive statistics and matrix of importance-performance are used for analysis. The results showed that the state of business intelligence system was medium but with different dimensions. Technological and competitors intelligence are in a relatively good level and market intelligence in a medium level. The state of strategic Intelligence didn’ t have a good level. Based on importance-performance matrix, Technological, competitors and market intelligence were in thearea of business intelligence strengths but the key weakness was strategic intelligence.