JOURNAL OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Year:2011 | Volume:2 | Issue:10|Papers Count:7

One of the most important discussions of recent decades in Iran and the world economic has been the issue of privatization and decreasing the volume of the state economic activities. Privatization in economic literature is defined as an economic policy to balance the state activities and other economic sections with the purpose of generating perfect competition conditions and achieving more economic and social efficiency. In this research it is tried to survey Implementation barriers and problems of Art.44 of constitution on credit and financial institutes the surveyed sample in Qavamin credit and financial institute in a case matter so that it includes two main hypothesis (internal and external) and 9 lateral ones (4 related to internal obstacles and 5 related to external barriers). The current research is that of sectional applied and according to the way of gathering data is that of heuristic. It is worth to say that the statistical population in this research is high managers of branches of Qavamin credit and financial institute in Tehran city (51 high managers) plus to 10 people of experts of privatization organization and due to the small number we used capitation. The research findings which include a 61 people sample by examining documents, questionnaire and interview which shows that the research population along with implementing Art.44 of constitution are faced with internal barriers (structure, the level of employees' commitment and cross-organization culture) and external barriers (cultural, political, economic, social and legal).

Nowadays, internal marketing has turned into one of pivotal and vital strategies in many service companies. Internal marketing concept indicates that a successful service company should first sell job to employees and provide job satisfaction to the employee and after that it can offer services to the customers, in this regard; this study tries to specify the effect of various factors of internal marketing on external service quality in Asia insurance branches in Tehran.This research is applied type in terms of purpose and is descriptive-survey in terms of nature. Statistical community of this study is Asia insurance Company employees and customers. Sampling has been through relative stratified sampling method and in each category simple random sampling method and data collection tool has been questionnaire.Split-half method is used for reliability. Spearman correlation coefficient and Friedman test has been used to test the research questions and obtain results.Research findings showed that factors of internal marketing all affect external service quality positively in overall statistical sampling. Also based on the obtained results, factors of empowerment of employee, distinction status reduction, rewards, training, information sharing, and employment security were respectively prioritized.

The aim of this research is studying the effect of fashion involvement on impulse buying behavior among students. Due to great increase of income and cash on hand in persons and important role of impulse buying in consuming markets and economy.Recognition of effective factors of impulse buying behavior has a special importance.Based on the aim, this research is applicable and based on the method is a descriptive research from survey kind. Also, this research is done in Qazvin city and statistical society is consist of students of Azad university of Qazvin unit. 377 accidental – class questionnaire proportionate to the number of students mere being distributed, then mere collected and structural equations modeling of LISREL mere used to test the hypothesis.The results showed that among effecting factors on impulse buying, fashion involvement and hedonic tendency directly effect on impulse buying, so it is recommended that sale managers by advance strategies create more new and fashion products from view point of hedonic and increase consumer impulse buying.

Considering fast changes in the business world and the importance which brand has in organizations as a vital factor and the image a brand may create in customers' mind and the position an organization may acquire due to this critical factor, this research investigates brand-orientation and the impact it may have on organization's performance. In this research, various factors which may affect brand-orientation are, brand obstacles which impede brand establishment and brand-orientation in organizations as well as other indices such as innovation, brand differentiation, brand performance, company's performance and brand-orientation are explained and investigated. In the present research has been carried out in cookie and chocolate companies operating in Tabriz city, a sample of 205 persons from among sale and commercial managers was selected and the required information has been gathered using a questionnaire. According to the obtained results from the tested hypotheses, brand-orientation in organization as a marketing strategy through innovations and brand differentiation would lead brand's increasing performance which in general, would result in company's increasing performance and its improvement.

Convesion to a learning organization is recognized as an effective strategy for performance improvement and business development that has a close relationship with innovation. In this study, we have introduced a new concept with the title of Knowledge Entrepreneurship (KE) as an organizational ability to recognize the value of acquired knowledge from organizational learning and then to adopt valuable innovative behavior in order to realize that value. It includes four dimensions: environmental awareness, analytical diligence, commitment to new projects and a range of risk tolerance and communication that can increase the level of innovativeness. So, in this research, the role of Knowledge Entrepreneurship as a mediate has been investigated. For this purpose beverage and food industry firms of Fars province have been selected. First, 22 managers and experts of the industry were interviewed for developing suitable survey instrument, to make a preliminary model of knowledge Entrepreneurship and research the hypotheses. Second, research instrument was confirmed by 47 respondents. Finally, using this instrument 78 firms were selected for surveying and testing the suggested model. The results showed that knowledge Entrepreneurship is the organizational ability that links organizational learning and innovation.

Since several of the critical success factors for knowledge management in organizations and by researchers in different conditions has been studied, in this study, among them seven factors: information technology, human resources management, senior management support, knowledge-based strategies and policies, reward employees, sharing and knowledge dividing and organizational culture that on organizational learning is effective and appropriate range of research, have been determined. On the basis of these factors as independent variables and organizational learning, have been analyzed as a dependent variable. Research to assess and measure the independent and dependent variables, indicators and experts with experts in the field of research, and are determined based on the index, the questionnaire is designed for distribution among the sample. To determine the sample size of multi-stage cluster sampling is used. Method of this research is practical for aspects of objective research method is descriptive - survey and correlation and the type is field. After collecting data and preparing the data for research, statistical analysis using one sample T-test, simple linear regression, multiple linear regression and ANOVA with Tukey HSD test SPSS18 software and data for research model collected from the structural equation modeling analysis was conducted by LISREL 8.5 software.Performing statistical analysis on data collected, determine the relationship between independent and dependent variables and no interaction with individual factors are examined together, all seven critical success factors for knowledge management, positive impact on learning their organization, but the interaction between dependent and independent variables with each other and are simultaneously analyzed, only three factors of knowledge-based strategies and policies, human resource management and utilization of information technology to increase organizational learning.

The objective of this research is to examine the effect of the percentage of institutional shareholding and percentage of non executive directors as corporate governance mechanisms instruments on cost of capital in listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange.To achieve to this objective and respond to research questions, we have prepared two hypotheses. To examine the research hypotheses we used multiple regressions using of Panel data as well as financial information of 65 sample companies during the period of 2002 to 2009. To determine the kind of Panel data, it has been also applied Leamer F-test and Hausman test and to examine the research hypotheses we used Ficher F-test along with t-student test. The research findings imply that in the whole sample, there is a negative significant relationship between percentage of institutional shareholding and percentage of non executive directors with cost of capital. Also, the examination of research hypotheses among different industries was led to different results. These findings present the importance of the quality of corporate governance in reducing of cost of capital.