STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT THOUGHT (MANAGEMENT THOUGHT)
Year:2020 | Volume:13 | Issue:2 (26)|Papers Count:13

The main issue in the article is the essence of government jurisprudence and the study of “ main tools for understanding religious propositions in government jurisprudence” . According to the theory of systemic attitudes toward religion in this epistemic system, “ ijtihad” is the “ discovery of al-Hakam al-Maderka” and “ the verdict” , namely: "Al-'Aṭ ṭ ī r al-Shā 'ī al-Metā qlā bā fā al-alā bā d". The claim of the civilization of Islam has led to an attempt to derive the viewpoint of Islam on a collective scale, with the approach of extracting “ processes” to be taken seriously into account. The necessity of being “ true” to refer to religion has let to the methodology of such an attempt. And the result is the adoption of strategies 1-The religioncenteredness of information resources 2-Strategic religion 3-Network’ s view to the universe 4. The paradigm-centeredness based on the network paradigm of religion 5. Subjectology and problemology in all layers of the pyramid needs 6. Determining the boundaries of the system based on the network of the purposes of religion 7. The Logic of Jewel Ijtehad 8. The Development of the Identity of the “ Judgment” 9. The Development of the Identity of the Situation 10. The Logic of recreational (Taf’ ree’ i) Jurisprudence in matching 11. The Use of the Logic of the Systems in broking, at the following operational stages: 1. Production of networks of issues and subjects of life 2. Production of system-based processes 3. Production of Keywords Matrix 4. Analysis of propositions 5. Translation of the proposition of religion into the language of the scientific hypothesis 6. Positioning the hypothesis in the pattern of progress and civilization map.

Imam Sadegh University is one of the academic centers of the country with the mission of scientific authority in compiling and producing Islamic humanities. One of the active colleges in this university is the faculty of Islamic Studies and Management, which by reviewing the theses, it can be found out that based on the expectations arising from the needs of the Islamic community, and a wide range of Islamic management research has been conducted in the form of master’ s theses. And according to different disposition and approaches in this field, different methodologies have been used. By studying these theses, one can get a clear picture of the existing trends and avoid re-working in the field using former experiences and followed paths. Thus, the purpose of this study was to study and identify trends in Islamic management theses in the faculty of Islamic Studies and Management in Imam Sadegh University. For this purpose, in the initial screening of the theses that were defended from the establishment of the faculty until September 2015, they were evaluated on the basis of five indicators of being Islamic and all in all 147 theses were reviewed. By reviewing the literature and expert opinions, the methodological axioms, the reference sources used in the research, research approachlogy and subjectology used as the main axes in examining trends and comparing researches were selected and theses were studied and analyzed. The results show that in Islamic methodologies the most used approach is jurisprudence research and the least approach is Sira studies. Furthermore, among the three main approaches to the production of science, it has devoted the most research to refinement and completing research.

Since there is no comprehensive model of strategic leadership; and there is also a need to examine this category in indigenous and religious literature, the present article has been developed for studying and eliciting the meaning of strategic leadership from Islamic point of view by focusing on Imam Ali’ s words in Nahjolbalagheh. At the first stage, strategic leadership was extracted in western sources and domestic studies, and in the next step, considering the widespread and varied Imam’ s statements in Nahj al-Balagha, a comprehensive sample was selected. Meanwhile doing studies by the researcher(s), expert in Nahjolbalagheh, Malek Ashtar treaty was selected and according to the subject of the research and lack of suitable resources, qualitative research method was used for content analysis. Concerning inductive nature of this method, we have done text to text measuring of Malek Ashtar treaty. For the ease in note taking and appropriate coding Nvivo 8 software was used. Thus, strategic leadership includes: “ developing and reminding the missions” , and “ determining priorities and activities based on them” by “ introducing practical patterns” , “ using experience (lessons and traditions) and “ organizing and improving staff affairs” which are realized by” developing agreement and unity among staff” , “ compliance with patience and persistence” , “ compliance with moderation, fairness and justice” and” behaving with tolerance and kindness towards staff” .

Islamic Universities, as one of the phenomena that have developed in the field of higher education for a long time at the traditional and modern level, require special conditions and requirements, one of the main ones being the leadership of universities. This research seeks to extract a conceptual model for the leadership of the Islamic University. For this purpose, the exploratory blend method has been used and based on the data strategy of the newly established fundamentals in the qualitative section and descriptive-survey method in the quantitative section, the leadership model of the Islamic University was extracted. The statistical population of the research is in both the qualitative and quantitative sections of Islamic management and leadership leaders with university education or with a history of attending university management fields was a sample of 19 people. In-depth interviews with the qualitative section were carried out and after holding a meeting for the focal group and the finalization of the initial model, by referring to the sample of 13 people in the quantitative part the validity of the model was estimated. Finally, out of a total of 778 initial open source codes, 64 selected codes and 9 theoretical codes were extracted. Therefore, the model of leadership of the Islamic University, consisting of 9 dimensions of Islamization, idealization, foresightedness and thoughtfulness, education-centered, purposeful task-centerd, self-organization, justice-centered, science-centered, and culturization were presented.

Policy making and policy implementation are the most important actions of the government and the central theme of policy making is discussing how to define and prioritize public issues. This matter is particularely going to be aggravated resulted from resources constraints and growing public demands. In this paper, we have proposed five indicators of prioritizing public issues spotting Iran government system; therefore the problem which is more intensive, more widespread, more urgent, more facilitator for solving other public problems and more appropriate for dominant social values, will have more priority. This research is a mixed research which is organized in two phases. At first, we asked 70 experts in public policy making and public issue administration in both executive and academic section to give their idea about indicators of prioritizing public issues using interviews and questionnaires. In this phase we extracted an initial outline of these indicators using the thematic analysis technique and then reviewed those indicators focusing on their connection with research purposes. In the second phase, we asked 11 other experts to evaluate these indicators and then their ideas about initial model were evaluated using Fuzzy-Delphi technique. So the importance of the proposed five indicators by the researchers were confirmed.

Although, evidence shows that strategic thinking leads to “ developing organizational capacities” , “ achieving sustainable financial results, ” and “ improving the status of the organization in the environment” ; but the significance of strategic thinking, identifying its relevant competencies and measuring tools is the matter of debate. Literature review in this regard shows that there are not any specific theoretical consensus on strategic thinking attributes that sometimes are titled as “ elements” , sometimes as “ aspects” , sometimes as “ skills” , sometimes referred to as “ capabilities” , sometimes referred to as “ competencies” and other similar titles, therefore, we did not observe the development of standard and comprehensive scales to figure out the dimensions of strategic thinking. Hence, in this paper, we tried to use multi grounded theory (MGT) to configure a comprehensive model for explaining the nature of strategic thinking. Analysis of the data from the systematic review of related studies over the last 40 years and interviews with 27 experts that were selected through a combination of purposive and snowball sampling methods, led to development of a model which fulfilled strategic thinking in the form of six attributes consisting of “ vision-driven foresight” , “ stakeholders focus” , “ creative evolutionism” , “ systematic solution seeking” , “ pattern seeking” and “ intelligent decision-making” . In order to validate the results and evaluate the model in terms of “ understandability” , “ comprehensiveness” , “ applicability” and “ innovation” , surveys of experts were conducted over two sequential stages, the results of which verified the validity of the acquired results and appropriateness of the final model according to the four mentioned criteria.

Despite the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary nature of the phenomenon of public policy leadership, being one of the topics of interest among statesmen and researchers in the fields of public administration, public policy, international relations and political science, on the one hand, which has increased the various aspects of this phenomenon from different perspectives, on the other hand, the state of accuracy of descriptions has been cut off from this term. Therefore, in order to avoid confusion among the flood of various and sometimes unrelated aspects, it is worthy to have a guideline to distinguish between studies in terms of scope, definition of the boundary and how to address the subject. In this study, four overarching themes: 1) Theme of public policy leadership, 2) Level of analysis, 3) Scope of influence of the public policy leader; and 4) Mechanism for obtaining legitimacy, were extracted from previous research. Then a matrix of these overarching themes was created which was the basis for the typology of previous studies. Each of different modes of this matrix, which were variations of overarching themes based on integrative themes, was considered as a pattern, and the most frequent patterns were considered as “ types” . The survey showed that some patterns have not yet been studied, though they are reasonable and feasible. On the other hand, some of the patterns are of great interest to previous scholars. Four types were identified in this study.

Industry and technology development is one of the main issues in the country, and government policymakers and decision-makers try to pave the way for policy development and resource allocation. Despite the efforts of policymakers and spending remarkable resources, the results are not very satisfactory in practice, and the state-owned industries and related chains are not in a good state in the global competitive environment. Among the government industries in Iran, defensive industries have achieved better gains with endogenous capability building approach with the “ Small Smart Core and Big Capable Network” model. Nevertheless, Islamic Republic of Iran is also facing the challenges of the country’ s industrial and institutional ecosystem and has its own problems. This research is aimed at rethinking about industrial policies and developing technological capabilities in defense industries and improving strategies and policies to come out of the concept of “ capability traps” . In this regard, using the research literature, the potential traps of various organizations were identified and, based on interviews with experts, traps of the capabilities studied are presented in the form of “ Causal Loop Diagrams” . In the next step, according to the system dynamics (SD) method, the problem simulation was performed using the “ Stock-Flow Diagram” Vensim software. According to the simulated model, new policies and strategies are: “ Establishing Spinoff and network development partnerships” , “ Promoting staff motivation” , “ Defining joint projects” and “ increasing knowledge sharing” . Finally, the proposed policies are tested in the software, and the test results of which indicate the effect of each on the growth of capabilities.

The development of information and communication technology in the last decade has affected all aspects of human life. Electronic governance includes the use of information and communication technology by the government to realize indicators such as accountability, responsibility, justice, etc., which has led to improvements in indicators such as per capital income, GDP, income distribution, inflation, employment and, finally, improvement of human life. Regarding this issue, the present study explores the effects of electronic governance on sustainable human development. The research has two stages: ― conceptual framework design‖ and ― validation of the conceptual framework‖ . In the first phase, by studying and analyzing background of the subject, the conceptual framework of the research was designed. Therefore, first, sustainable human development indicators and then electronic governance indicators were extracted from the literature and a conceptual framework was developed. In the second phase of the research, the validity of the conceptual framework was examined by a survey of experts. So the method of doing this research is quantitative and scrolling. Findings of the research indicate that, from the experts’ point of view, all of the indicators of e-government are affecting all of the indicators of sustainable human development, except for two cases that the effect of ecommerce index on life expectancy and the impact of the index of communication infrastructure on life expectancy confirmation failed. Also, the average of ratings showed that the importance of the impact of the human capital index on sustainable human development was more important than the view of the experts.

One of the means of evaluating cultural organizations, as custodians of the reform of community culture, is the evaluation of the top managers of these organizations. Each evaluation system requires criteria for evaluation, to which a lot of research has been devoted. The multiplicity of these criteria doubles the need for prioritizing them, as the evaluation process is always time-consuming and costly. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to prioritize the criteria for the evaluation of higher education managers of cultural organizations. Based on the above, the criteria for evaluating the performance of managers from the viewpoint of Imam Ali (AS) were extracted from previous perspectives and then in the next step, using the TOPSIS and SAW methods, based on 3 criteria: 1-Impact on increasing organizational productivity, 2-Matching with the position of top managers of the organization, and 3-measurability has been prioritized. The results of the research show that the criteria that determine the functional and special characteristics of individuals such as science, empowerment, counseling, etc., have a higher priority in evaluating the top managers of cultural organizations than those that reflect the personal characteristics of individuals such as piety, self-esteem and. . . and the main reason for this is that, in the view of experts, the criteria for specialty-orientation, are more capable of measuring the values of the criteria. Therefore, the present research’ s proposal is that important criteria such as piety, commitment and. . . should first be converted to more measurable criteria and then be used in the evaluation process.

The traditional flow of materials and products in the construction industry has become linear; meaning all building materials will be repelled as waste at the end of life of the building. However, demolishing the buildings and sending the pile of debris to landfills would not be the best available alternatives anymore. A large percentage of waste in the construction sector is due to damage and loss of construction materials on the site. Other sources of waste production include the destruction and remanufacturing of old buildings. In the present era, optimum management of waste has become an indispensable issue, due to the shortage of natural resources and raw materials and the intensification of environmental pollution caused by construction waste. The implementation of the RL principles is one of the measures to address these concerns. This study seeks to identify reverse logistics challenges that dramatically influence its adoption and implementation in construction projects. Therefore, semi-structured interviews were conducted with industry experts. Finally, according to the qualitative information obtained from the interview and observation, Questionnaires were arranged in the form of Delphi technique and was given to industry managers and experts and 57 challenges were identified and prioritized in different RL sections based on the results.

This research was aimed at developing a strategic partnership model for small and medium enterprises in software industry. The research method was exploratory mixed (qualitative and quantitative). In the qualitative section, after analyzing theoretical foundations and developing a conceptual model, the Delphi method (a panel of 20 experts) was used for the theoretical confirmation of the model. In field analysis section, data were randomly collected from managers of 350 companies. Library method, Delphi panel and researcher-made questionnaire were used for data collection. Validity and reliability of Delphi section as well as researcher-made questionnaire were calculated and confirmed. The Delphi panel qualitative analysis’ was done by coding, the quantitative analysis was done by statistical analysis, and also survey data were analyzed using Confirmed Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling. After three stages of expert opinion poll, the Delphi analysis resulted in the theoretical confirmation of the strategic partnership model with 35 components in the form of five dimensions. In the following, the results of structural equation modeling based on field data showed that in the fitted strategic partnership model, the partnerships propulsion has a positive effect on the selection of partners and the selection of partners has a positive effect on the design and implementation of the partnership. Also, the challenges of partnership as a mediator variable have a negative effect on the design and implementation of participation. Ultimately, the implementation and design of participation also have a positive effect on the outcomes of participation.