فصلنامه علوم مدیریت ایران
پیاپی 48 (زمستان 1396)

Abstract: Public Procurement is one of the most challenging areas in public organizations. Around the world, different solutions are devised to combat corruption and enhance healthy work environment in public procurement. Aligned with international approaches proposed for improving performance in public procurement systems, policies and tools, there are also some management approaches to improve organizational performance and productivity in public procurement. This research focuses on how public procurement professionals, as executive agencies use their recognition power and what factors may affect their recognition power. We first, reviewed relevant literature on public procurement and agency theory. Then, special characteristics of public procurement in Iran are discussed and evaluated. We used a qualitative research approach that contained semi-structured interviews of experts and focus groups as well. The results show that, in most situations, public procurement professional in Iran do not possess full agency powers due to limiting legal, organizational and political factors. They simply have to coordinate themselves with their superiors within their limited and controlled authorities

Abstract: With the growing use of social networks by many people, consumers take their purchasing decisions based on information in their social circles, and take advantage of the experiences of other consumers and their peers. The purpose of this study is to identify consumers in the name of market cyberspace experts that their views on attitudes and actions of other consumers are influential. Therefore, this exploratory research aims to create a better understanding of those factors that influence and being affected by this concept. The statistical population of the study was the consumers (24 persons) who were involved in cyberspace activities, such as social networks disseminating their information and experiences about products, brands and markets. We collected data using Snowball sampling with sequential approach and for analysis of the research data, thematic analysis has been used. Finally, the structures and identified variables have been reported in the form of conceptual map to answer the research question.

Abstract: Creating a contingency perspective on the role of entrepreneurial alertness in order to identify opportunities can improve the theoretical value of entrepreneurship and ability for analysis and advice to entrepreneurs as well. This paper investigates the basis of entrepreneurial alertness and relates it to existing theories of cognitive psychology. The purpose of this research is to create a conceptual framework by identifying main dimensions and components of entrepreneurial alertness in order to ease understanding the formation of entrepreneurial opportunities. In this study, we reviewed 159 articles from external and internal databases in a period of 1970 - 2016 and 1380-1395 respectively. Then, through (CASP)1 we selected 49 primary articles for analysis. A seven steps meta-synthesis approach was used by researchers to analyze the fore-mentioned study findings. The result show that the concept of entrepreneurial alertness can be categorized into five dimensions of; successful intelligence, attention, prior knowledge, mindfulness and market analysis, and 24 components. Then, the kappa coefficient method was used between two coders to ensure the study’s reliability. The paper is finalized with a discussion on entrepreneurial alertness model that include processes relating to human information processing at individual level.

Abstract: The paper draws on results from the first round on innovation survey in Iran in order to examine the extent of differences among High-Medium-Tech sectors with Technology-Based-Firms (TBFs). Although the differences between HMT and LMT sectors have been examined widely before, the comparison between HMT and TBFs could not be operationalized before because of lack of adequate data. This comparison is made possible by an interesting database generated in this specific context. We found that the main difference between them lies in reliance of TBFs on STI mode of innovation, given that HMT sectors in this context do not show the similar pattern. However, their behavior in market look likes very similar. We suggested that the context of a developing country like Iran heavily impact the under-establishment status of advanced sectors, although TBFs in this context struggle to maintain their connections with the world of science and technology. Moreover, this context pushes them to stay far from customer interactions that in turn enhance the purity of STI mode of innovation.

Abstract :One of the important questions for sociologists and administrators in organizational context is to find out why some employees stay at work, and some leave organizations. For many years, job satisfaction and organizational commitment were considered as important and effective factors on employees remaining at work. Gradually, the research findings showed that these two variables had a small share to the staff remaining or quitting organizations. To overcome this problem, at the getting to 21th. Century, researcher introduced the new concept of job embeddedness, as an inverse idea. A clear understanding of this concept, its dimensions and theoretical and applied developments can be considered as a better solution for managers and executives to maintain the organizations qualified employees. This review paper is based on a review and analysis of thirty journal articles that have been published between 2001 and 2016 on the concept of job embeddedness. In this review, we first go over the subject of employees turnover and then introduce the concept of job embeddedness and finally theoretical and practical developments of the concept will be analyzed. We hope this review could present the gap of literature to be filled in future local research.

This paper, by examining the trends and events in the Ninth Parliament, seeks to explore the dimensions and components of mental models of MPs that affect the decisions and behavior of parliamentarians. Participants of this study were forty parliament representatives who had served in the Ninth Parliament, and played a significant role in enactment of forty major legislative bills. We collected data by semi-structured interviews and used thematic analysis for its interpretation. The analysis of interviews led to the discovery of four fundamental dimensions of PMs mental models that dominate their decisions and behavior at the Parliament. These include: MPs beliefs and values, attentiveness to principles of sovereignty, their past experiences and individual worldviews, each of which has several components that in general, makes up the MPs mental framework at work.