QUANTITATIVE RESEARCHES IN MANAGEMENT
Year:2014 | Volume:4 | Issue:4|Papers Count:16

Financial assets are valuating based on present value income flow and to obtain the current value of cash flows, in addition of future cash flows we need the rate of return to discount future cash flows. The main goal of capital asset pricing models is calculating the relevant rate of return.CAPM model, consider to systematic risk as the only effective factor on stocks return. In fama-french three factor model, more than the systematic risk, other factors like size and ratio of book to market equity are considered as effective factors on stocks return. In this research we examine the ability of two factor model (Market and Liquidity) in explaining of stock return for accepted corporation in TSE for the 2004-2011period by using time series regression. The results have shown the meaningful relation between liquidity and market excess return and variation in stocks return in TSE are explaining in admissible rate by two factors liquidity and market excess return. (averagely 24%).

Extensive and development of computer science and global approach to its incredible success in all areas of the industry leaders in reaching what appears to be a dream once, increasing the industry in all aspects a Scapegoat worthy of our country and essential leading organizations recognize the needs and requirements of the organizations providing these technologies, such as integrated information systems and..., Your ferry routes and highways that joins civilization, often. This paper aims to evaluate the success of an integrated information system of the Ministry of Energy and subsidiaries, based on a modified model of success that has been provided by DeLone & McLean. The findings of this study indicate that System quality and service quality information system with a positive effect on user satisfaction Mstym willingness to use the system and thus achieve personal and organizational benefits derived from the use of information systems in organizations is and the data quality system has a direct positive effect on the willingness to use the system. On the other hand, Between information quality and user satisfaction, system quality and service quality tend to use, as well as the desire to use the system with no relation was observed between individual and organizational benefits. According to the findings, we can conclude that However, system quality and service quality information system integration Iran Water and Power Resources Development Co. predictor for evaluating user satisfaction and increasing individual and organizational advantages of information systems But the quality of information systems tend to use only the system is effective.

Many of the project due to issues such as high sensitivity, high volume capital project requirements in terms of political, economic and security issues, the reluctance of foreigners and their investment will be financed by the government authorities. There are foreign banks and credit institutions (Mahmood Alami and detained Alami, 1389.Methods: The subjects of this study for managers and professionals working in companies in industries Abhar city, given the small size of the study population with the same sample size is considered (N=n). In this study, the normality of the variables to test the hypothesis of T Test is used to test the hypothesis of Spss18 software and Excel software is used. Also rated manner for external financing using hierarchical Expert Choice software was used.In this study, the normality of the variables to test the hypothesis of T Test is used to test the hypothesis of Spss18 software and Excel software is used. Also rated manner for external financing using hierarchical Expert Choice software was used.enjoy the non-borrowing.

Promotion is one of the four main elements of marketing mix elements. The main tool is the advance publicity, including advance sales, personal selling, direct marketing, advertising. These tools provide, in coordination with each other, enabling the company's communication goals. The aim of the present investigation was to study the promotion elements affecting the client attraction in the sepah bank of the city of ardabil. The method of investigation was descriptive surveying and the statistic population included all individuals using the 18 sepah bank branch of the city of ardabil. The estimated sample volume was 196 persons selected by the cluster random method. The measurement tool was a 27-question, researcher-made questionnaire which studied the elements affecting the promotion in five elements of advertising, personal selling, sales promotion, public relations and direct marketing. The durability factor of the questionnaire was 0.797 according to cronbach's alpha. In order to analys the data, the statistics methods of regression were used. The results showed that: from the view point of the individuals being studied, sales promotion had the highest effects in the client attraction for the sepah bank in the city of ardabil.

Information exposure is important for the person who exposures the information, audience and all people of society and all decisions in capital market and stock exchange, especially in passive investing, are made in an uncertain conditions; So capitalists need some information because base on these information, they can direct sources to high efficiency investments with logical risks. Capital cost is a scale in investing decisions and in building optimum capital structure, so identifying the effective factors on companies capital costs and finding ways to control and decrease this costs are necessary. All data about 124 companies, accepted in Tehran stock exchange between 2003-2011, was collected and explored. Multiple regression model, based on panel data, was used in this study. Results show that information exposure has no effect on capital cost of these corporate. Total exposure based on corporate governance also has no effect on capital cost. Dividing total exposure to two specialist part and by some analysis, one can conclude that all parts of total exposure (compulsory and arbitrary), based on corporate governance, have no effect on capital cost. Inattention of shareholders to exposure can be a reason for these results. Investors must recognize traits and potential of investee companies to increase their investment quality. Results of this study emphasize that Iran capital market show no response to information exposure.

The present study is an investigation of the relationship between Accounting Information Quality and Auditor type Selection in companies listed at Tehran Stock Exchange in a span of seven years from 2005 to 2011. Based on the model of Francis et al. (2005), accounting information quality is used as the independent variable. Also, auditor selection is used as our dependent variable. Control variables of the study are firm size, leverage, return on assets, management changes compared to the previous year, losses and ownership type. A logistic regression model is applied for testing the hypotheses. Results show that accounting information quality, firm size and ownership type are most influential on selecting large auditing firms. That is to say, large companies or those owned by the government and companies with low accounting information quality are more inclined to opt for audit organization as the independent auditor. These findings provide regulators in the realm of auditing market with the fact that increased competition in this market decreases the quality of auditing in large firms.

Given that human capital is considered as the most important factor for competitive advantage and a basis for organizations, providing updated background and emergence of capabilities and application of their skills in the organization is important. Hence, in recent years empowerment programs have been identified as a suitable method for this purpose by many organizations. Empowerment is associated with a variety of working behaviors such as loyalty to the organization, the vision-based efforts and staff metasocial behaviors. Also, the rate of increasingly change in organizations led managers to looking for ways to increase organizational commitment thereby ensuring employee commitment and loyalty to achieve competitive advantage. This study sought to examine the role of employee empowerment on turnover intention and effort to staff service delivery due to mediating role of job attitudes. And to this end, 311 cases of Rasht council staff using and Morgan and by simple random sampling were selected. For data collection a questionnaire and for data analysis, principal component analysis (PCA) and linear structural relations (LISREL) is used. The results indicated a significant relationship both directly and indirectly between employee empowerment and trying to staff service delivery through job attitudes. The results also show that there is no significant direct relationship between empowerment and tend to leave their jobs. But there is indirectly significant relationship through job attitude and visa versa.

The study of environmental pollution and the factors affecting it is a significant topic in economy. Generally, in developed countries economic growth leads to reduction of environmental pollution and consequently clean environment starts to be regarded as a luxurious good. However, economic growth in developing countries leads to an increase in environmental pollution as clean environment is considered an inferior or at most an ordinary good. Since foreign direct investment (FDI) is one of the factors affecting economic growth in any country, investigating the relationship between this variable and environmental pollution is of great importance. Therefore, the main aim of this article is to study the effect of FDI and economic freedom on environmental pollution in the economy in Iran in the period between 1978 and 2008, using Auto Regressive Distribution Lag (ARDL) model. The results obtained from this study confirm there is a positive and significant correlation between FDI and environmental pollution.

Motivation as an important instrument in insinuation of people for production is the effective and efficient result and creating positive workplace and implementation of successful predicted programs. Faculty members comprise the basic corpus of every university and definitely in the system have more importance than programs, activities, and equipments and materials. Universities need motivated professors as one of the foundations of education so that they can be effective in educating the students of society. The cognition of effective factors in the creation of the job motivation of the faculty members is of necessities that can contribute to increasing productivity and job satisfaction and successful planning in creating useful and enthusiastic workplace in university.The purpose of the present research is the analysis of the role of effective factors in creating the motivation of the faculty members of the Islamic Azad University of Astara. The tool of information collection is questionnaire. The result of the research showed that all of the factors were effective in the motivation of the faculty members and all of the hypotheses were confirmed.

Commercial companies are obliged to response quickly against existence complexities at market because of ever-increasing environmental alternations and expedite competition. Investors, credit unions, analyzers, managers and etc are interested to understanding and evaluating the function of commercial Units. Undesirable financial status of these units, will damages to different groups, especially investors. Analyzing financial ratio such as evaluation of function of commercial units are included in order to suggestion the events before occurrence. A main part of Iranian Commercial Law is specialized for bankruptcy. By virtue of Article 412 "The merchant or commercial company would be bankruptcy because of stopping in funds payment". This stopping at funds payment in which undertakes by company is a sign of financial distress and the result of it may be bankruptcy of commercial unit. This matter will cause upset of shareholders from wasting their resources and remind the necessity of permanent forecasting of going concern of bankruptcy of companies. There are many models in order to forecast financial distress and bankruptcy of companies in which in this research has tried to analyzed using Zmijewski model, the exchange of credits of Tehran during 2001-till 2007. Consequent resulted from this research showed that there are meaningful relation between results from forecasting model and comparing it with reality; there are 99 percent meaningful relationship in confidence level. This confidence level, specially in related surveys related to information of one year before the base year that the research was considered, recites confidence of model in forecasting affair.