QUANTITATIVE RESEARCHES IN MANAGEMENT
Year:2014 | Volume:5 | Issue:3|Papers Count:10

Expansion of settlements in the industrial considerations without regard to environmental destruction and the natural ecosystems of the problems today is in one of the major problems has b In this research by using the distribution of questionnaire studies and former between managers, industry experts, industrial towns of the environment with the use of the method of analysis a factor discovery, the most important criteria of effective in spotting the town Qazvin Province industrial identified and categorization and with use of the technique to study the effects DEMATEL phase spotting settlements with industrial environmental index deals with lasting become cities.The results of the research show that:Environmental factors and infrastructural and most important factors in spotting the town industrial. Therefore it is necessary to planners in spotting the town industrial more attention these factors. Also in between the index of environmental BOD lasting in the amount of attention to water first rank to Dara, which shows that the amount of pollution water of the province of the town drains exit industrial and industrial pharmaceutical residuals, that these factors is polluting sources and threatened the quality of waters of the underground waters on are considered.

Today, correct and successful implementation of performance measurement is considered as essential for knowing about effectiveness and efficiency of organizations future plans and processes. Balanced scorecard (BSC) approach as a response to this need has been welcomed extraordinarily, regarding the fact that of financial criteria are insufficient to measure performance. This research aimed at providing a model to assess the performance based on BSC approach for private banks qualified for Tehran exchange. The research questionnaire was devised after different aspects of performance measurement systems, balanced scorecard, fuzzy logic theory, and fuzzy inference system were explained. The validity of questionnaire was approved after experts’ approval. Regarding interaction proportionate to balanced scorecards and different aspects of performance assessment, the level of significance for indices has been determined based on experts’ agreement level. After critical indices being determined, approaches for improving the assessment of banks’ performance have been proposed; fuzzy inference system (FIS) was used to prioritize the implementation of these approaches. It was concluded that under study banks situation (one of branches of a qualified banks for Tehran exchange) is suitable within four phases of balanced scorecards. The results indicated that strategic views and long run programs are necessary to remove obstacles of improvements of performance of private banks qualified for Tehran exchange. Measuring development level of activities within state prospective document together with continuous control over implementation of banking projects may be of high potential benefits.

Net income is one of the important items included in financial statements that is useful to the decisions of users of financial statements. One of the important questions is that, whether ownership structure can affect the information content of earnings or not? Therefore, the main objective of the present study is investigating the relationship between ownership structure and the information content of earnings of listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange. In this research, ownership structure is divided to five parts such: free-float shares, institutional ownership, govermental ownership, concentrated ownership and corporate ownership. For evaluating hypotheses, financial data of 100 companies Listed in Tehran Stock Exchange from 2006 to 2011 has been used. Balanced panel data model is used such that variables integrated from time series and cross-sectional data. Experimental results indicate that there is a significant positive relationship between ownership structure, ownership concentration and governanve ownership with information content of earnings companies listed in Tehran stock exchange, while there is no significant relationship between the free-float shares and corporate ownership with information content of earnings.

In the present study, it has been tried to evaluate the existing holding structure and to suggest ways to improve factors affecting the holding while introducing the theoretical concepts and referring to expert opinions. The effective index of the specified holding structure was determined and the compliance level of the current company's structure was tested.The nature of the study, according to its purpose, is implicative and according to the data collection is descriptive. To test questions, the statistical features such as frequency, percentage, and mean were used to analyze and describe the characteristics of the subjects. In order to confirm or reject the hypothesis and to find a specific relationship between variables, confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation (correlation and path analysis), one-sample t-test and paired t-test were used.The study subjects were senior managers of holding Headquarter and subsidiary companies in 2013 and the sampling method was census. Data collection is library research method and research instrument is a questionnaire that was confirmed by Cronbach's reliability and its validity by experts. After reviewing the literature and experiences of researchers and designers holding organizational structure, according to the study, a total of 42 indicators was determined which then divided into four groups. Indicators related to organizational processes are business processes, financial process, the support process, customer process; indicators related to Headquarters features are the central role of the Headquarters, the Headquarters, the interactive relationship between Headquarters and subsidiaries; indicators related to organizational strategy and goals include organization strategy, business strategies, operational strategies, strategy-oriented organization; and indicators related to management style include the index of the planning influence and controlling influence.The results showed that according to the experts' opinions, criteria and indicators were selected correctly. In order to assess the current state and the desired state, the questionnaire was prepared and business managers were inquired to determine the status of the indicators in current state and the importance of each indicator in the desired position. The mean test for the assessment of the existing situation and the desired optimal holding structure, suggests that the current situation is significantly different from desired position. To achieve the desired status, proposed changes in the discussed indicators are necessary.

The choice of a specific advanced technology is an extremely important process for a manufacturing organization. In fact, the decision for choosing the right technology is considered as strategic decision-making due to its impact on the organization's future activities. The complication of these processes is due not only to their various qualitative and quantitative influential factors, but also to the incompatibility of those factors, as well as the existence of different points of view among the beneficiaries. Furthermore, the best decision must be made by the management according to existing resources. The aim of this research is to use the Goal Programming (GP) technique in order to optimize the combination of the products (of a weaving factory), using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), so that influential factors in decision-making could be satisfactorily taken into account. The influential factors were recognized by observation, studying, interviewing specialists, and conducting a questionnaire, and then their priorities relative to one-another, as well as the priorities of the products relative to each factor, were determined using AHP. In the next stage, the collected limitations and results from AHP were used to model the problem within the framework of weighted Goal Programming. In a weaving factory, every item of produced textile was inspected from the technical-technological, financial, and commercial point of view. The combination of the products should be chosen in such a way to maximize the profit, as well as to maximize the productivity of the factory by prioritization of various types of textile.

Different p3eople have different values and these values can be helpful in explaining and predicting their behavior. Values are more important than interests in planning and career choice. The central purpose of the present study is the relationship between the personal-life values (the values of the reaction, tribal values, values, self-centered, adaptive values, influential values, social values are values central tendency) and job satisfaction have been conducted. Data is collected based on research through questionnaires distributed among hospital staff personnel Zahedan in summer 1393 and To examine the relationship between variables and test hypotheses of multiple regression and structural equation modeling (path analysis) is used. The results show that the 99% confidence level between seven dimensions of personal values and job satisfaction are significant.

Internationalization of commerce and globalization of markets have become common in the recent decade. Companies try to sell their products all over the world and maximize their profits. Export development is a way to internationalize companies' activities. With export, companies can offer their products in external markets with the least involvement in local markets.The present research aims at evaluation of factors influencing on export development in SMEs in Ardebil Province, Iran and tries to investigate the influence of factors like: competition in internal market, company size, products packaging, manager's skill in destination country language and elimination of procedural obstacles on export development. Its methodology is applied, in terms of its goal and it is a descriptive correlation research in terms of data collection method. Its statistical population included active companies situated in Ardebil industrial estates (264 companies) and 157 companies were elected as sample size by means of Morgan table and simple random sampling.Data collection was done by a questionnaire which was prepared using previous studies and researcher's opinions and its validity and reliability was verified. Chronbach's alpha was used to investigate the questionnaire's reliability (alpha=0.7) and structural equations modeling method was used to analyze data. verification factor analysis was used to show that competition in internal market, company size, products packaging, manager's skill in destination country language and elimination of procedural barriers have influence on export development and the influence is significant and positive.

Considering the vulnerability of macroeconomic variables in Iran, as an oil-based economy, to global changes in the oil market, in this paper we examine the dynamic relationship between oil prices and inflation. For this aim we apply vector autoregressive approach with an asymmetric definition of oil prices and distinguish between positive and negative oil price changes. Using quarterly data for 1988 to 2008 the results showed negative effect of changes in oil prices on inflation. The effects of oil price shocks on inflation is temporary but long route convergence in response to negative oil price shocks in oil prices is longer than the response to the positive momentum.Also according to the results, the most effective factors explain changes in inflation are lagged inflation rate, exchange rate in informal market and GDP. Thus oil price shocks cannot be a variable with the highest proportion among the various factors affecting inflation. Finally, the effect of oil prices on inflation in short-term and long-term are not the same.

This paper examines the impact of public health expenditures on factor productivity in Iran. To do so, it shall use a solo model, a model to explain variations in national health and productivity of an input.It reviews the scientific literature and the effectiveness and accountability of the public health expenditure & labor productivity; empirical results of panel 28 provinces of the data model in the period of a judge and review the impact during 1379-89.The results indicate that the cost of health expenditure has positive effects on labor productivity are constant, while the investments in infrastructure, health, impact on productivity is too weak. Government`s educational investment has 6 times better effect on productivity than health. So it could be better to let private sector invests in health infrastructure.In long term public health investments have new comer effects than educational investmens.

Islamic banks as the most important financial institution in Islamic countries have organized their activities based on shariah-compliant principles. The goal of this research is to study the performance of the Islamic banks and the effects that they may show from the global financial crisis in 2007. Because of the nature of the recent crisis is due to the lack of discipline in the conventional financial institutions, the impact of the crisis on financial institutions can be a benchmark on the performance of these institutions.The statistic society of the research consists of all Islamic banks which act in the world. Also, the research sample is the data and financial reports of 71 banks that are studied, based on this sample size. Paired t-test is used to compare the theoretical model of the study in appraisal performance of banks (11 key performance indicators). To test the case, the years 2005, 2006 and 2007 as the period before the crisis and years 2008 & 2009 as the time period after the crisis were studied. The result of the research shows that there is no significant difference between the averages in the period before and past crisis for all the used performance indicators. In other words, this study showed that the performance of Islamic banks is not affected by the recent financial crisis. Operating based on principles of Islamic financial system and using the current instruments in this system are the major reasons of not being effected.