QUANTITATIVE RESEARCHES IN MANAGEMENT
Year:2011 | Volume:2 | Issue:1|Papers Count:10

Urban managers are expected to have good performance and their efforts improve the quality of life of citizens with minimal cost and maximum efficiency of resources. "Urban land" is a valuable commodity which is used in Housing and Urban field. Wasteful consumption of land will result Prodigality in other consumer items such as water, electricity, gas and vehicle fuel. Now, the question is that whether the productivity of urban land use and improving its usage pattern has been notice in Mehr plan or not. Studies show the use of urban land is highly wasteful. The levels of access for residential and index levels for public green space and levels have been measured. This study shows that Mehr plan not only improves the productivity of land usage but also improves the quality of urban life according to Urban Standards. If the plan can be transferred to the internal parts of cities, the indictors will be improved more.

Investors are required to obtain useful information regarding their economic decisions. Earnings quality and reliability are two features that can ultimately lead to useful information to investors. Auditing is the only reference which gives validity to the information and shows its reliability and earning quality, then meaningful relationship between earning quality and auditing comment can be expected.  Therefore in this study, the quality of earnings which is measured using the Jones model will be examined with the type of audit opinion. Also, Regression models has been used for the assessment of the effect of corporate characteristics. The type of this research in descriptive-Correlation based in panel data analysis. In this research, 625 year-firms listed in Tehran Stock Exchange has been selected as sample during the period from 2004 to 2008. typically have been selected to test the research hypothesis of the statistics F, T and Durbin Watson statistics.

The interaction between suppliers and organizational buyers should only be considered within a social, cultural and historical context. So based on the article's topic, the theoretical framework is depicted and the research hypothesis were developed. Then, according to the literature review, a questionnaire was developed and distributed among a sample, consisting from the staff of selling department of Jam's company, as a supplier of petrochemical products, and the main organizational buyers. Accordingly the useful data were collected. By using One-Sample T and Freedman tests, the research hypothesis regarding four groups of variables which affect on interaction between supplier and organizational buyers (including environment, atmosphere, actors and interaction process), were tested and ranked according to their importance. Findings reveals the four groups of variables affect on the interaction between supplier and organizational buyers. However their importance are not the same (the actors have the most and the interaction process has the least impact).

The annual general meeting decides about payment of dividend to the stockholders. This profit only belongs to stockholders who officially and legally are the owner of shares during holding the Meeting. Though, usually after holding the meeting, as some profits of share reduced, so share is dealing in lower price in stock exchange. The main subject among stockholders is their presence or absence in meeting. Therefore, in this research we attempt to answer this question that which characters and conditions are necessary for share in order to receive extra yield by participating in annual general meeting? The aim of this research is the evaluating effective factors on receiving extra yield resulting from participating in annual general meeting of listed in Tehran stock exchange during 2004-2008. The current research include seven hypothesis, that we evaluate the relation between price to earning ratio (P/E), dividend per share (DPS), Beta ratio, the proportion of predicted earnings per share of the next fiscal year to the ascertained earning per share  of current year(EPS1/EPS0), Book value to market value ratio (BV/MV), the size of company and also date of holding annual general meeting in the first semi year or second year with extra yield which is measured at first by correlation between variables with extra yield, the results of hypothesis show there is no correlation between the variables of holding meeting in the first or second semi year , book value to market value ratio, the proportion of earning per share of future fiscal year to the current fiscal year with share yield . Therefore these variables are removed from model and the research model is designed with four variable including P/E ratio, beta ratio, the size of company and dividend per share.

This study investigated the effects of demographic, economic, social and psychological factors on demand for higher education in Islamic Azad University, Abhar branch. 972 students that enrolled in 87-88 academic year was selected and asked to complete demographic, social and economic information form, achievement motivation questionnaire, and social acceptance questionnaire. Results of Binary Logistic Regression and Multinominal Logistic Regression revealed that interest, coming job, house status, distance, marriage status, achievement motivation, age and tuition affect the demand of faculties. Also, marriage status, mother's job, house status, interest, student's job, distance, and income were significant for demand of females and males. Results showed that house status, distance and achievement motivation affect demand of native and non-native students.

Water resources management faces with very important economical, social, financial and environmental objects and aims that can pointed below issues answering with new demand in conditions accession quantity and quality restrictions of water supply, decrease and removal locks of effective and optimal usage of water resources, presentation of better services in operation of water plans, make social equality between different income groups and to conserve water resources for attained to said aims, one of important actions of water resources management is water demand management and to purpose water as economic commodity. For this reason, converting of instrumental tendency of water supply to non-instrumental tendency is very precious. In this variation, aim of water resources management is use of economic tools that one of important tools is pricing. In this study, for all around acquaintance with this important matter, tariff and pricing surveys in visionary and application circuits.

Relationship marketing focuses on creating long term and interactive relations with individuals, organizations and stakeholders and maintaining it. Relationship marketing aims to persuade customers to buy and use again from the products and services they have used previously such as theaters. This research aims that assessing the determinants of relationship marketing in the success of theater saloons and defining their priorities. This research is a descriptive one and its type is survey. Its population is the audiences of theaters in Tehran theater saloons. A sample of 384 people has been selected by Using Cochran formula to answer the questionnaires. Prioritizing and sub-factors were used in marketing communications. Research findings indicate that the order of the eight major marketing communication, the "public policy" in the first place, the "historical" in the second, the "market" third factor "internal marketing" The fourth factor, "resources" in the fifth, the "communication" at number six, the "competence" in the seventh rank, the "Information Technology" is ranked eighth. Finally, Some suggestions have been given according to the results of this research.

Analysis of financial statements can be made for various purposes ranges from simple analysis of liquidity, ability to pay short-term debts to comprehensive analysis of strengths and shortcomings of that institute from various angles. The present study addresses whether similarity in mission, purposes, size, and even revenue sources in non-profit institutes result in the adoption of similar financial approaches. Statistical method used in this research is multiple comparisons by means of kruskal-wallis test. In this study which has been conducted by data obtained from 74 I.A.Us' very large  branches between 1383-1387, it has been made clear that only expenditure approach of these institutes differ and the remaining adopted financial approaches are similar.

This study aims to evaluate and rank the organizational intelligence factors in educational systems and knowledge-based organizations (a comparative study of Imam Sadeq (AS) with Shaid Beheshti University). This study is a functional research base on its purpose and it has been performed as a comparative survey among a sample consisting of 355 people (151 employees of the University of Imam Sadeq (AS) and 204 personnel of Shahid Beheshti University). Standard questionnaire based on the seven skills of Albrecht was used as the research tool. Albrecht used organizational intelligence to respond and prevent of a group idleness. He provides a model consist of seven dimensions: strategic perspective, common destiny, desire to change, unity and consensus, spirit, knowledge application and performance pressure. Each of the dimensions use as one of the research hypotheses, and organizational intelligence examined as the main research variable. To test the research hypotheses, compared t test (in SPSS software) was used. The results indicates significant differences between the scores of Imam Sadeq (AS) university and Shahid Beheshti University in all factors mentioned in the research model.