In today's world, especially after the development of open innovation paradigm, technological collaboration is one of the most important sources of innovation. Because, in the new competitive environment, organizations requires sources of innovation and the current competitive advantages and internal resources are not sufficient for competitiveness. So technological collaboration is an effective tool for developing competitive advantage, which eliminates the gap between current and desired capabilities. This makes the technological collaboration as an engine of growth and productivity in local and international markets and also as one of the most important management tools for improving the competitiveness of organizations and strategic maneuvers in complex and dynamic environments. In recent years, collaboration has been expanded so that five hundred first-class international businesses, have more than sixty percent of strategic alliances. These collaborations are not always necessarily SUCCESSful and the failure rate has been reported seventy to eighty percent. These failures led to scientific experts' efforts for finding solutions to increase the effectiveness of collaborations, appropriate methods of collaboration, reduce the risks of collaboration and identifying SUCCESS FACTORS. In this paper, after literature review, SUCCESS FACTORS of technological collaboration are introduced. Understanding these FACTORS provides useful insight for managers and policy makers.

Since born globals are important for the future of business and because the findings of previous studies are scattered, there is a need to develop an integrated conceptual models and comprehensive theoretical frameworks. Also, the necessity of investigating the research on born globals is mentioned in previous works. These problems in born global literature and the need for developing a comprehensive framework is a main driver for conducting this review research. As a result, the aim of this article is to collect and integrate all the empirical studies in the world regarding the SUCCESS KEY FACTORS of born global firms in a comprehensive framework. Therefore, this article summarizes the findings of 85 empirical studies (only studies related to early SUCCESS of born globals) by using systematic review method through identifying research questions, identifying inclusion and exclusion criteria, searching by using related KEYwords and extracting and synthesizing data and integrates them in a comprehensive conceptual framework. Based on the developed framework, future opportunities for research, theoretical and practical implications and theoretical and contextual gaps are suggested.

Research results show that the business model, which has received much attention in recent years, has a decisive role in the SUCCESS of businesses. The purpose of this study is to identify and prioritize critical FACTORS for business model SUCCESS. The present study was conducted by the mixed method. The study's statistical population is entrepreneurs, investors, and experts in the information and communication technology industry. Qualitative data were collected using semi-structured interviews with 15 ICT experts. In the quantitative section, 142 questionnaires were collected. An open and axial coding method has been used to analyze the qualitative data. Confirmatory factor analysis with structural equation modeling approach using AMOS software is used in the quantitative part. The results of the quantitative section show that among the FACTORS affecting business model SUCCESS are dynamics, clear vision and mission, unique value proposition and effective customer relationship, the internal fit of business model elements, difficulty in imitation of business model, and the effective use of resources are essential, respectively.

Background and purpose: As in many countries, Medical Education (ME) is offered in three levels including Undergraduate ME, Graduate ME, and Continuing ME. Informtion tehnology development has provided a suitable chance for ME. E-learning in ME is growing more and more. The present study seeks to determine the KEY SUCCESS FACTORS (KSF) in E-learning in medical fields. Methods: KSF has been scrutinized in the literature following of which, and due to similarity, a clas­sification with seven groupings was established including institutional factor, technology, interested parties, information knowledge, methods and approaches educational resources, and environmental FACTORS. Through a questionnaire, the data were gatered from the information technology (IT) directors in all medical universities throughout the country. The data collected were subjected to factorial analysis. Data from heads of educational groups were obtained through focus group discussion. Cronbach reliability coefficient was calculated for questionnaire used. Factorial analysis was used to identify meaningful KSF. T-Test, and one-way variance analysis as well as Pearson’s correlation were used. The analysis was conducted with SPSS software.Results: The results showed no significant differences between age, sex, career, and level of education, and KSF. The preparedness FACTORS were analyzed through group discussions with the heads of the academic departments under the study. By factorial analyses, five FACTORS were found including the departmental interest and potential (27.3%), task performance potential (25.1%), E-teaching develop­ment in basic and clinical sciences, and continuing education (20.1%), suitable cultural environment (16.8%), and infrastructures (10.8%). Fisher Exeact Test was used to compare the obtained ratios in 5% curve whose results showed that among the three FACTORS including legal and technocal environ­ment, specialized hardwareand software, and high speed internet, performance interest and potentials showed a significant difference (p=0.002). A p=0.011 was found for the authorities’ interest and finan­cial and non-financial rewards. No other significant differences were found anywhere else. Conclusion: Our results showed that sex, age, career, work has no relation with KSF which means that if other FACTORS such as technology, organizational and financial preparedness, curriculum content, human resources, teaching methods, standards, literacy, communications systems, trainers and learners, envi­ronment and culture were ready motivated person can experience SUCCESS in e learning in medicine.

Viral marketing is a marketing policy that spreads a company’s marketing messages such as new brands or services by word of mouth. It is meant to offer the facility free to the people and allowing them to transfer it to others. The purpose of this research is to identify the KEY FACTORS affecting the SUCCESS of viral marketing and prioritize these FACTORS. Based on the study of existing literature on the subject area, we prepared a list of KEY SUCCESS FACTORS and distributed a questionnaire to 125 active managers of Iranian capital market asking them to review and complete it with regard to Iran’s capital market conditions. Then we used Analytical Hierarchy Process technique that is considered as an important approach in this type of marketing. The research results show that 19 FACTORS are influential to the SUCCESS of active agencies. These FACTORS eventually were classified into six KEY FACTORS. The most important were message content, correct targeting, penetration characteristics of a message, technology involved, relationship with product, entertainment and validity and reliability of the message respectively.

The purpose of this research is to identify the essential SUCCESS FACTORS in performing value engineering in Iran. Maurer and Posetas model was used as the basis for SUCCESS factor identification. These two models have identified 34 variables as effective FACTORS in performing the value engineering study. Statistical population of this research was 37 productive and service organizations of Tehran province, and statistical samples were,250 persons who were connected with the subject of value engineering study of these organizations based on the gathered data from questionnaires. Statistical methods of binomial test and factor analysis were used. In the end 8 KEY FACTORS from 3 main groups among 34 variables arising from the methods of researching in performing the value engineering study in today conditions of productive and service organizations of Tehran province were identified.

The recognition of SUCCESS FACTORS of shopping malls could be a lead for investors and it also could prevent the bankruptcy of the shopping centers and malls. The object of this study is to design a SUCCESS pattern for shopping malls in Iran. This study is applied and mixed or hybrid in terms of purpose and type of data, respectively. Statistical population is experts, executive managers and the customers of shopping centers in Tehran, Isfahan, and Mashhad provinces. Semi-structural interviews were done and the collected data was analyzed by theme analysis. Furthermore, to examine the relationship between variables in the model, structural equation modeling (path analysis) was run in the Lisrel Software. Findings indicated that six FACTORS are critical for the SUCCESS of shopping centers including: 1) geographical situation FACTORS, 2) owners and renters’ FACTORS, 3) shopping center management FACTORS, 4) goods and services FACTORS, 5) marketing FACTORS, and 6) design and architecture FACTORS. Investment in shopping centers should be conducted based on the identified FACTORS and investors can evaluate the feasibility of shopping centers’ projects according to the identified SUCCESS FACTORS.