IRANIAN JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
Year:2018 | Volume:13 | Issue:49|Papers Count:6

Corruption has been one of the most important challenges facing the country since many years ago, and today it has become one of the national crises which, if continued, will lead to the loss of confidence among the people. The present research aims to answer the question "What are the roots of corruption in Iranian government agencies? ". This research sought to identify the root causes of corruption by adopting a comprehensive approach combining "tacit knowledge" through an expert view of the subject of "explicit knowledge" through a qualitative text analysis method on 100 valid international papers and a quantitative regression method. The results of research findings suggest that increasing current costs, increasing oil revenues, establishing democracy and improving the quality of bureaucracy will reduce corruption. Also, the effect of rule of law and human development on corruption was not significant. At the end, based on the findings of the research, suggestions were made for future research.

This aim of this study is to understand the lived experience of senior managers in banking industry and to outlines the factors that they consider critical in the development of their own careers. Ten managers from Bank Mellat were selected and semi-structured interviews were planned. By applying a qualitative research approach, narrative inquiry was implemented. During a six phase narrative thematic analysis of data, two different approach to career success was identified; the first was career success as an achievement and the second was career success as an endowment. When successful managers consider the career success as an achievement, they introduce three factor named human capital, social capital and motivational capital. While seeing the career success as an endowment, psychological capital and spiritual capital become more important. Main contribution of study is developing a comprehensive model that describes career success factors. Findings provide practical implications for designing and implementing management development programs.

The aim of present research is to study the role of street-level bureaucrats’ discretion in their tendency to public policy implementation. Research population consists of staff of Qom tax affairs office that involvement in implementation of comprehensive tax plan directly. Finally, 86 people were selected as sample by Morgan table and simple sampling method. Data collection instrument is a questionnaire that its reliability was confirmed by composite reliability and Cronbach’ s alpha methods while its validity was confirmed by convergent and divergent methods upon confirmation by elites. Data analysis was conducted by SEM and using Amos22 software package. The findings indicate that the street-level bureaucrats’ discretion has significant positive effect on client meaningfulness and tendency of public policy implementation. Also, the results show that client meaningfulness plays a moderating role in the relationship between bureaucrats’ discretion and bureaucrats’ tendency to public policy implement.

This study seeks to explore how the organization uses the Internet during working hours among employees of government organization. Considering the development of technology in governmental organizations and the dual effects that it will have on organizations, as well as considering the need for the organization to understand how to use the Internet for proper policy and management, It is important to recognize the type of organization use behavior. The present study seeks to take into account both types of utilization. This paper is a quantitative and descriptive study. Data was collected using a researcher-designed questionnaire and job feature questionnaire. Also, due to the uncertain size of the community, the appropriate sampling method for this study is sampling of unlimited society. According to the results of the questionnaire, it was found that the employees on average employed about 2-3 hours a day from the Internet at work. Half of this time will use work and half to track personal affairs. They use the Internet more with their mobile phones and tablets. More than half of the employees use the Internet more than twice a day. Also, education on work use, work experience on nonwork use, age, organizational level, and occupational characteristics affect both types of use. On the other hand, there is no significant difference between working and non-working hours among employees at work hours.

Today, the concept of tax compliance has become a common phenomenon in most countries and attracted the attention of a large number of researchers in order to identify the affecting factors on it. This research also outlines the main factors affecting the taxpayers' compliance such as tax justice, tax culture and attitude of taxpayers, is seeking to provide solutions to improve tax compliance status in the Iranian National Tax Administration. So, in the first step, a set of infrastructures which shaping tax justice, tax culture and attitude of taxpayers are identified based on research literature, backgrounds and experiences of other countries, and in the next step, based on the views of the professors and experts of this sector, by Delphi technique and in three steps have been screened. The Delphi panel consists of 23 experts and in surveyed study, 550 companies selected as a sample of the total amount of legal persons of value added tax of the Tax Administration of Sari and questionnaires distributed among them randomly. The data were analyzed by using SPSS and AMOS software. The results of the study showed that distributive justice and the factors of socialization are the most important factors which affecting tax compliance. The findings also revealed a significant impact of tax justice, tax culture and taxpayer's attitude on tax compliance.

The flow of entrepreneurial marketing research has flourished over the past fifteen years. Many small and medium-sized enterprises, in a changing and highly changing environment, use entrepreneurial marketing as a powerful alternative to counteracting the decline in traditional marketing effectiveness. The purpose of the present research is to develop an entrepreneurial marketing model for small and medium-sized enterprises, which collects the concepts of entrepreneurial marketing in One hundred ninety-eight of articles in nine scientific databases, and are identified and classified through the Meta-Synthesis method. Experts sampling has been conducted through unpredictable and combination of purposeful or judicious methods in small and medium enterprises (leather and handicrafts, decorative stones, food industry and woodworking industries) in the west of Iran (Kurdistan, Kermanshah and West Azarbaijan). The instrument of Delphi method was open questionnaire, its validity was Kendall's coefficient and consistency was used for reliability of Kapa coefficient. The results show that the entrepreneurial marketing model of small and medium enterprises in which determinants (causal, causal and environmental factors) dimensions (entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation, customer orientation and innovation orientation) strategies (internal and market) and outcomes are formed.