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The Relationship between Leadership Styles and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors in a Knowledge-Based Organization
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Alavi, Babak (Supervisor)
Abstract
In this thesis, the relationships between various leadership styles and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) were examined. For this, with a qualitative perspective and using the Grounded Method as the research methodology, dominant OCBs, effective leadership styles, the relationships between leadership behaviors and OCBs, and other influencing parameters were identified. In this regard, with a preliminary feasibility study, the possibility of implementing this research was verified and then, by using twelve in-depth interviews, required information was gathered. Main categories were recognized by coding the data and analyzing the relationship between the coded information. The...
The Linkage of Business Diversification and Corporate-level Technology Strategy the Case Study of Iran Khodro Corporation
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Ph.D. Dissertation
Sharif University of Technology
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Arasti, Mohammad Reza
(Supervisor)
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Tidd, Joe
(Supervisor)
Abstract
This research that examines bi-directional linkage between technology strategy and corporate strategy, addresses both of forward-path and backward-path linkages. In forward path, corporate strategy is the main and starting point and technology has a supporting role for firm’s corporate strategy. On this way, technology strategy is developed based on the corporate overall strategy. On the other way (backward-path), technology (or any other resource in general) is the driving force and basis for corporate strategy. In this way, overall strategy is developed and formulated based on technology strategy. So, this research and its achievements have reported and followed in two distinct parts...
Toward a comprehensive subjective evaluation of VoIP users’ quality of experience (QoE): a case study on Persian language
, Article Multimedia Tools and Applications ; Volume 80, Issue 21-23 , 2021 , Pages 31783-31802 ; 13807501 (ISSN) ; Jahangir, A. H ; Hosseini, S. M ; Sharif University of Technology
Springer
2021
Abstract
Quality of Experience (QoE) measures the overall quality of a service from users’ point of view by considering several system, human, and contextual factors. There exist various objective and subjective methods for QoE prediction. Although the subjective approach is more expensive and challenging than the objective approach, QoE’s level can be more accurately determined by a subjective test. This paper investigates various features affecting QoE by proposing a comprehensive subjective evaluation. First, we show that many unconsidered factors can significantly affect QoE. We have generated voice samples featuring different values for novel factors related to the speaker, signal, and network....