IRANIAN JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
Year:2018 | Volume:13 | Issue:51|Papers Count:6

Innovation systems consist of a set of players and institutions that work to obtain specific functions. Structures and functions have interactive effects on each other and it is not possible to separately study them in a systemic and comprehensive manner. Structures, will shape functions and functions condition structures accordingly. Furthermore, innovation systems are frequently, facing possible challenges and failures. These failures could be classified into three general categories; Structural failures, Market failure and System transition failure. The purpose of this study is to present a comprehensive and systemic analysis on Iran’ s sectoral innovation of medicinal and aromatic plants (MAP) system. We used a three-folded functional-structural-transitional conceptual framework to analyze MAP innovation system. In this case study research we collected data from different sources including public and archival data, interviews, direct research and participant observation. Results show that the Iran’ s medicinal and aromatic plants sector has multiple structural failures that is unable to shape the desired functions expected from an innovation system. We present, some policy recommendations to overcome the sector challenges.

One of the goals of marketing is to turn consumers into loyal customers. So, the interaction between customers and sellers is of particular importance. The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors contributing to the market culture, salesperson culture, salesperson behavior and environment as well as the impact of these factors on customer loyalty in Tehran’ s coffee shops. We conducted a sample survey in which twenty five coffee shops participated. A questionnaire distributed among four hundreds customers of these coffee shops. Findings show that competition as an environmental factor, socialization, customer-orientation, hospitality as dimensions of market culture, respect and responsiveness as salesperson culture as well as customer care and effective listening affect customer loyalty. Furthermore, we found a causal relationships between multi-cultural environment and market and salesperson culture; market culture and salesperson culture and behavior and finally salesperson behavior on customer loyalty.

The process of interacting economic institutions is one of the main pillars of any political system and an integral part of a state decision-making processes. The interaction of these institutions is vital for halting corruption as a major obstacle to developmental purposes. One of the manifestation of institutional corruption in our country is money laundering that is done by economic institutions, particularly the banking system. The purpose of this study is to design an antimoney laundering model by the means of the country’ s economic stakeholders interaction. We first used an exploratory sequential approach to collect qualitative data to be examined by thematic analysis; then quantitative data was collected and analyzed. We extracted 285 indicators, 59 main themes, 16 organizing themes and 5 pervasive themes from interviews and literature reviews. The results show that the interactive policy framework for combating money laundering in the Iran's Banking System demands participatory and managerial measures and requires the intelligence and interacting partners, in order to achieve the relevant goals.

Over the past two decades, the study of good governance has been at the forefront of the world's scientific and international circles, especially in developing countries. It is argued that the path to development is due to the provision of quality governance in many countries. This study aims to write three scenarios about the future of good governance in Iran and to provide an analysis of the future by using scenario-writing as one of the methods of future studies. In this paper, by designing and criticizing three scenarios in the discussion, we examine the "past in the future" scenario using the time series analysis method; "Probability" scenario using a cross-impact analysis method; and The "optimistic" scenario based on the Iran’ s twenty-year vision plan. The findings of the research in the first and second scenarios indicate that how much attention and importance should be paid to the indicators and their prioritization in order to promote the level of good governance in the country. The third scenario shows the distance and the rank of each country in the region based on the prospectus. At the end, suggestions are made for future research.

Most of the studies on corporate governance that have been conducted thus far are based on Agency Theory and are mainly focused on the structural approach. These studies which are mostly have done by accounting and finance scholars, do not represent the board members real behavior and interactions among the players as well. Therefore, the board decision-making processes has remained a black box for those researchers specializing strategy and organizational behavior. This study aims to systematically review the corporate governance researches that have been particularly focused on organizational behavior perspective. The research question is what scholars have published so far on theory and methods in this area of study? We used a systematic literature review applying a qualitative Meta-synthesis approach. We found 140 articles from which 78 articles with average JIF score 4. 34, were selected. From coding process we recorded 1404 descriptive and 337 content analysis codes which revealed 28 theories that have been classified in three categories of “ Board Role Theories” , “ General Theories” and “ Social Psychological Theories” . Findings show that until now most of the studies are based on the Agency Theory, using quantitative data with cross-sectional research design unable to perfectly explore the processes and dynamics of board meetings and dynamics. . Based on t findings, in order to better understand the processes and dynamics of board members behavior, we suggest that researchers consider mixed research designs and collect primary data from interviews, and direct observations, instead of relying on archival data that comes out from securities market databases.

Organizations tend to consider the use of intentional organizational forgetting capacity as a tool to improve their financial performance. This paper aims to study the relationship of intentional organizational forgetting and financial performance with a focus on mediating role of organizational agility. The statistical population of this sample survey descriptive research consists of 845 employees of the Tax Administration offices in West Azarbayjan Province from which a sample of 278 employees were selected using Cochrane method. We distributed a standard questionnaire for collecting data and two software of SPSS and LISREL for data analysis. We also used the Pearson correlation coefficient and structural equation in statistical analysis. Findings show that there are positive relationships between intentional organizational forgetting and organizational agility and organizational agility (0. 92) on financial performance as well.