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The control and management of social networks’ potentials has been an important research subject for many organizations and researchers in recent years. Social network of an organization includes all the people that at least once have established a social relationship with the organization directly or indirectly. This relationship can be formal or informal, spontaneous or controlled, and deep or shallow. But in any case, the stronger the communication between people’s social relationships (as members of that social network) become and the more increases in the number of members of that social network, the easier path to success the organization could achieve. Hence, the critical success... 

Although a large amount of research have been made to study the role of production activities in our country, but the policies of supplying these industries were not studied well by the researchers. This research has been done by the goal of survey on the concept of excellence as a tool for improvement of organizations, in the field of SMEs. The main goal of this research is recognizing the key success factors in the field of SMEs in order to provide an appropriate framework for policy makers to make decisions for this sector of industry. In this research some concepts like productivity, organizational excellence, SMEs, excellence models and awards and etc. have been discussed in order to... 

In addition to investigating the overall situation of healthcare information systems (HIS) in Iranian hospitals, in this thesis the goal is to determine the key elements of success and failure in the implementation of HIS. With the advent of the computer systems in Iran and due to the successful and unsuccessful experiences of organizations, the necessity of detecting the influential elements in this field is perceived even more than before. Another importance of this research is because of the essential role of the cultural and social factors in the success of these systems; this claim can be justified by observing different results founded by researchers from different countries. In this... 

Social problems are growing rapidly while the resources including financial resources, available for third sector organizations are insufficient. Besides terms such as Social Innovation and Social Entreprenurship that concern effectiveness and efficiency of approaches trying to solve social problems, new forms of finance has been emerged in the fileld of Social Finance in order to increase the amount and diversity of fianacial resources available for social organizations in different stages of their lifecycle. Crowdfunding is a new form of finance that emerged due to 2008 economic crisis of America in order to increase the access of Entrepreneurs, Innovators and SMEs to financial resources.... 

The most important concerns of companies who are active in upstream section of oil and gas industry is to find the ways to get to safe side in the world wide competitive market. With determination of Success factors in each industry those ways become clear for the companies .The objective of the study is to explore key success factors in upstream section of Iran oil and gas industry and also to compare the result with similar international research. It also investigates how enterprises define and measure success as well as how they determine their strategies. With the aid of a questionnaire which has been design in similar research, we got related information from experts who are involved in...