The purpose of this study is to quantify the impact of business networks on competitive advantage by the mediator variable of capability of building capabilities (CBC). These networks are accompanied by the role of customers، suppliers and competitors. For data collection، a questionnaire was distributed that 325 of which were utilizable. The result of SEM analytical method shows that all hypotheses are confirmed with the minimum level of reliability of 0. 9. The mean of business networks for private and family businesses was more than that of private and nonfamily businesses. Among the impact factors of hypotheses، the most one belonged to the impact of business networks’ relationships on capability of building capabilities (CBC). In total، it could be said that business networks have a significant impact on dynamic capabilities which are the new approach to competitive advantage. On the other hand، considering the significant role of cognitive component among the other components of business networks and also considerable affectability of strategic flexibility، special attention of organizations towards long-term relationships between business networks in this industry is recommended.

Abstract In recent years, for companies of different industries, The internet and Internet marketing has become a way of earning income, interacting with the customers and shareholders, providing products and services, and electronic sale. The current research is aimed at studying the effects of the performance of Internet marketing on growth of export markets. In terms of purpose, this research is an applied one and in terms of data collection method, it is a descriptive study of correlation type. The research population consists of the marketing experts and marketing and sale managers of the Iranian dried fruit export companies. After the initial confirmation of reliability and validity of the questionnaire, it was distributed among 94 experts. First, the respondents and questions of the questionnaire were analyzed by SPSS software. Then, the hypotheses were studies by structural equation techniques, Smart Pls, and using T-value test, path coefficient, and correlation coefficient. The results show that the capability of Internet marketing has a significant and positive effect on growth of export market. Also, other research hypotheses were approved with the probability of 95 percent. Keywords: Internet Marketing, Export Market Growth, Availability of Export Information, Business Network Relationships, Dried Fruit Exporters

The words communication and network have received a lot of attention by academics, managers and professionals. Strategists pay more attention to issues such as joint ventures, strategic alliances, and strategic networks. It seems that these attentions and concerns refer to some fundamental changes in the way companies relate to their activity environment and the problems they face. In general, the terms network and communication indicate that there is a special type of organizational form that is at a higher level than individual and independent companies (Hakansson & Ford, 2002).Business relationships are very essential for the success of companies. These relationships allow firms to mobilize important resources that they do not control, in the sense that business relationships deal with firms' dependence on resources (Mouzas & Naudé, 2007; Pfeffer & Salancik, 1978; Zaefarian, Henneberg, & Naudé, 2011). Business relationships have positive effects on important aspects of management such as innovation (Muller & Zenker, 2001; Rindfleisch & Moorman, 2001), reduction of operating costs (Cannon & Homburg, 2001; Selnes & Sallis, 2003) and ultimately company profitability (Fang, Palmatier, Scheer, & Li, 2008; Palmatier, Dant, & Grewal, 2007). Companies must manage their business relationships successfully to stay competitive.The competitive environment of companies is constantly changing. Traditional markets are rapidly being replaced by networks. This issue creates major management challenges for industrial companies with advanced technology. From a conceptual point of view, this means that we must have a vision beyond normal relationships with customers and suppliers and complex and complex networks including networks related to research and development, supplier networks and alliances. (Moller & Halinen, 1999).Today, we are witnessing extensive changes in business relationships, which are caused by rapid developments in communication systems, which have facilitated dialogue and interaction between companies in the B-to-B and B-to-C markets. The growing activity of customers, suppliers or even competitors in business relationships has affected the nature and nature of interactions between customers and sellers. At the international level, only a few companies can continue to operate without having connections with foreign companies (Ratajczak-Mrozek, 2017). Most companies can only grow through interaction with foreign companies, and often must develop business relationships with companies that are culturally different from them. Undoubtedly, technological development and internationalization of businesses both intensify the competition and force companies to search and apply new strategies to maintain their market position. Except for large companies, the market also includes very creative smaller companies that seek to succeed by reaching a favorable position in business relationships with powerful companies (Ratajczak-Mrozek and Fonfara, 2018).Production networks are expanding. These networks are corporate groups that, since it may be difficult for them to achieve competitive advantages alone, they combine their forces to achieve competitive advantages. Creating a network brings material benefits such as increasing sales or reducing costs, psychological benefits (creating the belief that problems are shared) and developmental benefits such as learning to adapt to economic changes in the environment. Cooperation between these corporate groups is characterized by informal systems rather than formal contractual relationships to manage complex products or services in competitive and uncertain environments (Sherer, 2003).Nowadays, inter-organizational networks and their influence on different aspects of the organization have become very important in the discussion of organizational advantages. Networks are vital for discovering opportunities, testing ideas, and accumulating resources to shape a new organization (Aldrich & Zimmer, 1986). New researches have grown strongly in order to better understand how to create value from business networks (Corsaro et al., 2012). Business networks and network resources (such as information, access, capital, services and goods) are considered a source of sustainable competitive advantage (Gulati, Nohria & Zaheer, 2000).Network structures can create a competitive advantage such as social capital (Burt, 2001). In other words, network businesses are interwoven with social relationships with other businesses that over time can create trust, expectation of justice, and reciprocity (Grabher, 1993; Granovetter, 1985).In today's highly competitive business environment, the use of communication and effective activity in business networks is vital for all Manufacturing and services organizations. Organizations are facing many limitations including lack of resources and capabilities. By using relationships and sharing resources, organizations can overcome many of these limitations and benefit of being a member of a business network. Because staying in business networks offers many opportunities to companies. In this research, the set of factors affecting the effective activity in the business network in Iran's food industry has been tested. The current research is a descriptive and cross-section research. The population of this research are senior and middle managers of companies active in the food industry. The sample members is 205 senior and middle managers of food industry companies active in Iran. A questionnaire was used to collect data. In the analysis of the collected data, descriptive statistics and structural equation model were used in the inferential statistics section, and measurement model tests and structural model tests were performed. The results show that among the 8 factors of resource sharing, common vision, trust, commitment, choice of partners, information technology, flexibility of the company, competence of the network, the last two factors affect the effective activity of companies in the business network in Iran. They have a significant effect and this effect is also positive. Also, network competence has a greater impact than flexibility. According to the findings it could be concluded that the flexibility of the companies and the competence of the network have a significant effect on the effective activity of the companies in the business network.

Due to rising unemployment in Iran, like other countries, home businesses have been considered as a low-cost opportunity for job creation. Economic condition beside social, cultural and technological changes have led to an increase in the number of people who address home business.Home businesses are based on kind of available capitals and those who have more access to these capitals would probably become more successful and achieve sustainable livelihoods and employment. Social networks can facilitate access to these capitals. In this study, comparative method, thematic content analysis and survey was used for reviewing social network role in home business success. According to findings from countries where home businesses are flourishing, the creation of associations, business networks and network membership of the owners have greatly reduced the funds and facilities needed. Network Membership and supports received from formal and informal relationships are critical success factor for home businesses. Network membership and supports that received from formal relationships, such as financial support and work together (40. 0%), and supports of informal relationships such as advisory assistance and human resources (0.25%), explain the home business successes. Generally, the home businesses Embeddedness in networks (0.43%) explain their success.

Women entrepreneurs use virtual social networks in their professional relationships. These relationships with higher quality leads to better performance in their businesses. The present study aimed to analyze the effects of virtual social networks on improving rural women’s entrepreneurship. The statistical population of the study included all members of the Agricultural Development Specialized Holding Companies in Fars province in Iran. The study was conducted using survey and stratified random sampling methods with 269 individuals participated via questionnaires. The results indicated that virtual social networks had a favorable effect on rural women’s businesses. There was a significant difference between women in the different studied counties regarding the effects of virtual social networks on business. In addition, a significant difference was observed between women in various groups regarding the effect of virtual social networks on business. In addition, greater effect of virtual social networks on women’s businesses led to higher business resilience among the women entrepreneur and their businesses, which resulted in increasing the women’s information about business activities and their entrepreneurial activities in their businesses. Further, more use of social networks by the women led to more use of marketing methods and strategies. Therefore, it is suggested that Agricultural Development Specialized Holding Companies use the functions of virtual social networks in order to information transfer, networking and online training for members when necessary. Also provide the necessary training in the application of appropriate marketing methods and strategies to rural women entrepreneurs using these networks.

The current research in the terms of purpose is practical and it is descriptive-survey based on data collection. It has been investigated The relationship of social networks on the women's business performance with the role of mediating entrepreneurial alertness and gender discrimination.The statistical population of the study includes the148 Iranian female business owners who attended the 13th Women's Entrepreneurship Development Conference. Using Cochran's formulas and Simple Random sampling, the sample size has been consisted of 106 women. The essential data has been collected by questionnaire. The data analysis has been conducted by the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) using the Partial Least Squares and the statistical software PLS Smart was used. The research findings indicate that there is a significant relationship between the social networks and the women's business performance regarding the mediating role of entrepreneurial alertness and the gender discrimination. Since the social networks influence the women's business performance, so women could improve their business performance through extended and effective communication in the social networks.

Diversifying the economic activities of the society has always been a major challenge of governors in every country. Attentions are also paid to this issue in Iran and one of the important measures which is done in this regard is considering tourism in recent years. Tourism is a multidimensional industry consisting of different sectors as small and medium sized enterprises which are of great importance in this industry. But these businesses are usually faced with shortages of budget, lack of management and marketing skills and lack of knowledge that network creation helps to overcome them. Therefore, weaknesses can be replaced by strengths through creating relationship among businesses. Main benefits of network creation are increasing revenues, reducing risks and costs and sharing knowledge and experience. In the current paper, the influence of nerwork formation on the performanceof tourism businesses particularly Tehran travel agencies is studied. Data are gathered through documents and surveys and are analyzed by SPSS software and Pearson correlation ratio and T-test. Results show that the performance of businesses improves in networking mode therefore, there is a positive relationship between network creation and performance improvement.

In today’s fast expanding business climate, the need for useful business information seems to be vital not only for achieving success but also for the survival of an organization.
Considering the failure of management information systems (MIS) in satisfying the requirements of organizational decision makers on the competition issues during recent years, the art-like technologies such as business intelligence have become one of the major concepts of management information systems, and by mixing with the culture of advanced organizations, are playing an important role at the frontline of information technology for supporting management decision making.
In this article an attempt has been made, with the identification and introduction of the most important factors and parameters affecting the performance of a business intelligence system, to present a model for the measurement of a business intelligence performance (within the framework of a case study in a software production organization ).
Taking into consideration the lack of independence and the existence of the relationship between effective factors, the method of Fuzzy Analytic Network Process was used for identifying the possible relationship between the factors as well as measuring them for the development of an evaluating model.
In the conclusion, the results gained have been compared with the methods of Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process and Non-Fuzzy Analytic Network Process.

In recent decades, tourism activists in tourism areas have come up with new and innovative ideas in various areas of urban tourism to create and promote new businesses and new jobs. One of the most important issues and challenges in the field of tourism business networking is the degree and status of the interactions and relationships between these businesses and their entrepreneurs. Yazd city is one of the most important tourism areas of the country with its natural and human tourism capital. In order to optimize tourism planning, it is necessary to determine the position and power of each tourism business and the entrepreneurs and the degree of power and centrality of each business and the type, influence and interactions of each entrepreneur in the tourism business network analyzed. To be. Therefore, the main purpose of the study is to analyze the interactions and relationships between businesses in Yazd. This research is an applied one and uses library and field data to collect data. The main statistical sample of the study was entrepreneurs and business owners of tourism in Yazd city. Data analysis is also based on network theory and social networking approach using Ucinet software. According to the final results of the study, the density of one-way and two-way interactions between businesses in the aspect of tourism exchange and destination management is at a relatively good level and in the information dimension is at a moderate level and at the financial level is weak.

In today's globalizing world, which is also called the information age, information and information technologies are becoming increasingly important for businesses, and they have become an indispensable part of economic and social life. Nowadays, it is impossible to think about a business that is far from information technology, and also it is important not only to find information but also to find the fastest and highly reliable information. The important thing is to use information technologies effectively and efficiently. Therefore, it is expected that the effective usage of information technology will have significant positive effects on business performance. The aim of this study is to examine and analyze the impact of the intensive usage of information technologies on business performance in the supply chain process. A sequential, multi-method approach integrating both structural equation modeling (SEM) and neural network analysis was employed in this research. The information technology usage performance network was formed by using the SEM model, and the ANN model was used to predict a relationship between information technology usage levels and business performance by using these network outputs. Furthermore, the validity and reliability tests of the relevant model data were performed.