Gholamreza Tavakoli; Majid Ramezan; Abbas Moayya
Volume 24, Issue 77 , July 2015, , Pages 153-169
Abstract
In today’s era Organizational Capacity for Change (OCC) is an important and strategic capability and a source of competitive advantage for organizations; therefore the strategic thinkers should go beyond the daily managerial processes and crises to focus on developing the capacity for effective ...
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In today’s era Organizational Capacity for Change (OCC) is an important and strategic capability and a source of competitive advantage for organizations; therefore the strategic thinkers should go beyond the daily managerial processes and crises to focus on developing the capacity for effective response to the environmental uncertainty. In this study 29 governmental organizations were surveyed. The level of Strategic Thinking and OCC in each organization was evaluated and the relationship between these two concepts was investigated by correlation test. In this research Liedtka’s model of Strategic Thinking and Judge’s model of Organizational Capacity for Change have been used. The results showed that organizations with higher level of Strategic Thinking have greater Capacity for Change. Furthermore, it was determined that there are positive and meaningful correlations between each element of Strategic Thinking (systems perspective, intent-focused, intelligent opportunism, thinking in time and hypothesis-driven) and OCC. The statistical analyses also demonstrate that there are positive and meaningful correlations between Strategic Thinking and both human capital and social infrastructure attributes of OCC.
Gholamreza Tavakoli; Mehdi Elyasi; Maysam Shafiee Roodposhti; Aliasghar Heidari
Volume 21, Issue 64 , August 2011, , Pages 55-88
Abstract
One of the most important strategic sectors of any country's economyis the military sector.Thus governments allocate a considerable amount of effort and cost to helpthis sector through obtaining its objectives. Meanwhile, it is known that aneffective way for military sectors to cover their own expenditures, ...
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One of the most important strategic sectors of any country's economyis the military sector.Thus governments allocate a considerable amount of effort and cost to helpthis sector through obtaining its objectives. Meanwhile, it is known that aneffective way for military sectors to cover their own expenditures, andshowcase their powers, is export. Also, it is known that a major prerequisitefor prospering in exports is acknowledging the customer wants and fulfillingthem.This article tries to identify the harms of Iran’s military export, and employsthe qualitative methods such as open questionnaire, depth interview, andcontent analysis. Afterwards, its conceptual model is drawn making use ofthe affinity diagram. At the final stage, using quantitative methods, harmsare categorized and prioritized by the results acquired from the adaptivematrix. Statistical population of this research is comprised of 63 internalexperts (with 0.65 cooperation ratio) and 95 foreign experts (with 0.65cooperation ratio). Findings revealed that internal experts found 9 harmitems to be critical, needing urgent investigation and resolution, whilethis number was 4 with the foreign experts.
