Morteza Mousakhani; Seyed Mehdi Alvani; Ebrahim Mahmoodzadeh; Yasser Alidadi Talkhestani
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Organizational ambidexterity is defined as the ability of companies to simultaneously explore and exploit. One of the key resources to achieve ambidexterity, is social capital. This study seeks to identify factors influencing the creation of an ambidextrous social capital at defense-industrial organization. ...
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Organizational ambidexterity is defined as the ability of companies to simultaneously explore and exploit. One of the key resources to achieve ambidexterity, is social capital. This study seeks to identify factors influencing the creation of an ambidextrous social capital at defense-industrial organization. In order to achieve this goal, the combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods were used. Initially the focus group was used, and based on its results, a questionnaire was prepared and in the sample of 98, were distributed in the organization. 32 items extracted from the literature an focus group meetings, 3 key competencies, were analyzed using structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). As a result in the organization, structural social capital with dimensions strong-bonds and weak-ties; cognitive social capital with dimensions values, vision and language (narratives); and relational social capital with dimensions trust, norms and identity were the most important in the studied organization.
Seyed Ali Akbar Afjahi; Jamshid Salehi Sadaqyani; Ebrahim Mahmoudzadeh; Mohsen Adabi Firozjayi
Volume 24, Issue 77 , July 2015, , Pages 187-219
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Researches show that much than 70% change efforts have been failed to realize the expected goals. One of the main reason for this failure, is the non-alignment between power types and change. In this paper, the alignment between power and change types and its effect on the performance improvement were ...
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Researches show that much than 70% change efforts have been failed to realize the expected goals. One of the main reason for this failure, is the non-alignment between power types and change. In this paper, the alignment between power and change types and its effect on the performance improvement were investigated in 18 commercial companies of Defense Ministry, being active in trading (non-military) market. The present research is descriptive-expressive in terms of goal, applied-developmental in terms of consequence and mixed (qualitative-quantitative) in terms of data type. In quantitative research, 105 questionnaires were collected from the strategists of companies. In this research, "the model of structural equations" and especially the technique of path analysis were applied to study the relationships between the research variables, employing the Software smart PLS, v. 3.0; "cluster analysis" and "variance analysis" were performed by the Software SPSS, v. 19. Also, the qualitative data from the structured interviews made with 36 senior managers was analyzed by content analysis, and the criterion for comparing the performance of the companies was determined by Delphi technique. The results of variance analysis test indicated that the companies, where change and power types are more aligned, have a higher performance.
ebrahim mahmudzadeh; ali mohammad amin zadeh
Volume 19, Issue 59 , September 2009, , Pages 87-112
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Making decision on different management process is the main visible side of management in enterprises and is depend on availability of accurate information which is the most important part of it. In this respect, using computerized networks and integrated systems are increasing daily. this paper is about ...
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Making decision on different management process is the main visible side of management in enterprises and is depend on availability of accurate information which is the most important part of it. In this respect, using computerized networks and integrated systems are increasing daily. this paper is about to evaluate the efficiency of implementing such systems on the process of proper decision making aiming to achieve to the prospected goals of enterprises considering the high costs of implementing integrated systems due to providing hardware and software. This paper aims to define the indicators and ingredients of evaluating the efficiency of integrated systems. Through the integrated designing of process with using integrated application within internal aspect of enterprise and using web tools in the form of integrated web portals on intranet and/or internet network platforms regarding to external aspect of enterprises, the implementation of integrated systems could be possible. In this respect XML language and SOAP. WSDL and UDDL protocols as the main tools for integration can be used which has been regarded in this paper and on the basis of abovementioned definitions, a conceptual model which indicated the efficiency of Enterprise integration on decision making process is proposed. In this study an applicable model for evaluation the efficiency of integral systems on management decision making process on the basis of 28 defined ingredients is designed and examined its results in Iran Electronic Industrial Company (!El)
ebrahim mahmudzadeh; farnaz nekui; shahram jalali nia
Volume 19, Issue 58 , March 2008, , Pages 23-54
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Globalization of economy is posing unprecedented opportunities and challenges for firms especially in developing countries. How does a firm best structure itself to thrive in current dynamic environment with high degree of uncertainty and go about entering global markets is one of the most risk")' issues ...
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Globalization of economy is posing unprecedented opportunities and challenges for firms especially in developing countries. How does a firm best structure itself to thrive in current dynamic environment with high degree of uncertainty and go about entering global markets is one of the most risk")' issues in this era. Technology development strategy in alignment with business strategy is of increasing importance to achieve sustaining development. In this paper we introduce global balance approach as a potent driver for crafting technology development strategy. This paper provides an overview to technology development framework and methodology in SAIRAN, composed of technology selection, acquisition strategy, and timing, at the core of which lies capability assessment, attractiveness and roadmapping. A case study on technology development in the field of medical equipments and entering global market verifies the introduced methodology and how it can support global balance approach in order to deliver successful products in fast response to market, with higher quality, service levels, scalablity, flexibility and lower price
ebrahim mahmoodzadeh
Volume 13, Issue 49 , August 2006, , Pages 39-55
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Speed of change in marketplace has become so rapid that the time available for organizations to plan and then implement strategy has diminished. The challenge of strategy execution is more relevant today than ever before. Most management systems were designed to meet the needs of a stable, incrementally ...
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Speed of change in marketplace has become so rapid that the time available for organizations to plan and then implement strategy has diminished. The challenge of strategy execution is more relevant today than ever before. Most management systems were designed to meet the needs of a stable, incrementally changing world, fail to meet the needs of today's dynamic economy. Strategic management is to continually manage change, risk, and knowledge sharing. The hard side of strategic management, i.e. how formulating strategy is well studied in last few decades. Now it is the soft aspects that needs more focus. Leadership,culture and team work would be more effective in successful implementation of strategy. Cascading strategy
