فصلنامه علوم مدیریت ایران
پیاپی 46 (تابستان 1396)

Organizational culture is among the factors contributing to the efficiency of administrative systems. Therefore, an organizational culture which is deemed to create a competent administrative system, could be vital for all developing societies. This research aims at investigating organizational culture deficiencies in Iran’s public sector. By studying the present status of organizational culture in Iran’s public organizations, the study strives to identify the cultural challenges that Iranian bureaucracies face and present some solutions to overcome the potential shortcomings. A number of administrators and academics participated in the study’s semi-structured interviews and a survey was conducted among experts from four Iranian ministries .The analysis of interviews was done through thematic analysis technique and in the quantitative section of the study we used Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and paired sample t-test. Based on the findings of the research, we identified 29 shortcomings in five areas, all of which demonstrate a significant gap between the status quo and the desired status.

Corporate Entrepreneurship has been drawing mounting interest in recent decades. As a crucial approach to make modern organizations thrive, entrepreneurial behavior holds paramount importance in organizational research. Each of scholarly works in the literature has partly investigated the concept. This paper seeks to produce a roundup review of the prominent studies in terms of their directions, and also elaborate on fundamental concepts introduced in the CE literature. We have conducted statistical analyses of significant studies while categorizing CE literature on a thematic basis. The analyses suggest that CE literature may fall in three main categories i.e. antecedents, processes, and outcomes. The paper proceeds to further introduce these categories while examining key studies of each to delineate pivotal CE concepts. In the second part of the paper, we have tried to describe historical trends and methodologies employed in the studies surveyed. Thus, the current paper is expected to illustrate a representative picture of CE research directions and fundamental concepts.

Much of the effectiveness of training, research and creative activities of entrepreneurship is contingent on attention to the nature of entrepreneurship knowledge. Deep reflection on the type and nature of entrepreneurship knowledge is crucial for improving the effectiveness of entrepreneurship activities. There are two views on interdisciplinary nature of this field of study; Entrepreneurship as a body of fragmented and irrelevant knowledge, and Entrepreneurship as an immature interdisciplinary field. The purpose of this review, is to assess interdisciplinary nature of Entrepreneurship. The review of literature indicates that there are four criteria by which we could judge the nature of Entrepreneurship; subject matter, theoretical origin, knowledge integration and purpose of the field. Analytical assessments of the current state of Entrepreneurship that is based on the above-mentioned criteria state that Entrepreneurship has the characteristics of being an interdisciplinary field of knowledge, but still seriously need to evolve, especially in the criterion of "knowledge integrationE

Capital market plays an important role in the economy, by transferring the cash fellow of people who cannot use their money at capital market. Therefore, a good performance of these markets could be a key factor in economic growth, so economic development will be achieved if capital markets work efficiently. On the other hand, due to irrational decisions of investors in the capital market, systematic errors may occur that causes inefficiencies in the market. This paper is aimed at identifying the main biases investors undertake in the capital market. Searching the major internal and external databases (for a period of 2016-1980), we reviewed 64 articles that have used the same statistical analysis about the biases investors undertake in capital markets. Using the CMA2 software, we found that the most significant cognitive biases are: overconfidence, self-reliance and adjustments, representation, self-attribution, conservatism, uncertainty avoiding, mental accounting, current events, shaping, work status, self-control, and emotional biases are : optimism, loss aversion and regret aversion.

The purpose of this paper is to study the consequences of organizational reputation in the public sector of Iran. In the past, this subject has been an enquiry to be studied in business sector, but, recently the subject has attracted the attention of public sector researchers. In this paper, we examine the impact of organizational reputation on organizational citizenship behavior considering mediating role of organizational identity. In this study, Public sector organizational reputation is measured by Luoma-aho(2008) model within five dimensions: authority, esteem, trust, efficiency and service. OCB is measured by Organ(1988)model and organizational identification by Cheney’s model. The population is the staff of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. Questionnaire was the main instrument for gathering data. We used the structural equation modeling for analysis of data. The results show that organizational reputation has significant impact on OCB and organizational identification, but the impact of mediating role of organizational identification was not confirmed.

The purpose of this study is to assess the effects of personality traits (narcissism and core self-evaluation) as well as, internal and external social capital of Tehran Stock Exchange brokerage CEOs on the performance of their firms. Entrepreneurial orientation, transformational leadership and reputation variables mediate this relationship. This survey was conducted on 53 CEOs of the brokerages using a questionnaire composed of 10 main criteria, 20 sub-criteria and 92 items (questions). The results confirmed fourteen out of seventeen hypotheses. The relationship of narcissism, core self-evaluation, and internal and external social capital of CEOs via the mediating variables was confirmed. Also the moderating role of board power, environmental dynamism, CEOs tenure and firm age was verified. The resulted model revealed that half of firm performance can be indirectly effected by core self- evaluation, narcissism and external social capital.