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Dynamic Capabilities in Public Sector; Charectiristics and Function
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Mashayekhi, Ali Naghi (Supervisor)
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In this study, the concept of dynamic capabilities is extended to strategic management of public sector organizations. For this purpose, an extensive literature review is performed on strategic management of public and non-profit organizations to identify the main characteristics of them, and the essential differences of these organisations with private sector. Afterwards, the literature on dynamic capabilities is reviewed to distinguish their characteristics and operating process in private organizations. Following the results of the previous sections, i.e. “performance and characteristics of dynamic capabilities in private organizations” and “characteristics of public organizations”, some...
A Field Research on the Relationship Between Strategic Decision-Making Speed and Innovation Performance in the Case of Iran Drug Industry
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Kermanshah, Ali (Supervisor) ; Sharbatoghli, Ahmad (Supervisor)
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Purpose – This study aims to: identify organizational and environmental factors affecting strategic decision-making speed; examine the relationship between those factors and innovation performance; and clarify the relationship between strategic decision-making speed and innovation performance. Design/methodology/approach – A survey was conducted on more than 50 large-scale firms operating in the drug industry in Iran, in summer 2009. Findings – The research findings related to the linkage between participation and strategic decision-making speed indicate that extensive participation accelerates the pace of decision making. Research limitations/implications – This survey was conducted on CEOs...
The Effect of Siblings Joining on Career Choice Intentions of Offspring to Join the Family Enterprise
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Khalili Nasr, Arash (Supervisor)
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Family businesses comprise the majority of businesses in the world and in Iran as well, However, many of them fail in their succession to the next generation. Hence, the factors influencing family business succession has been studies by many researchers in the past decades. To contribute to the present literature, our study addresses one of the factors which is assumed to be influential on children choice about whether to enter their family business. The literature proposes that the presence of the siblings in the family business has both positive and negative effects on one's decision about whether to enter the family business or not. The positive effect stems from one's desire to work...
A Navol Strategic Decision Making Framework for Project Machines & Resources Management
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Fattahi Valilai, Omid (Supervisor)
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Organizations adopts different strategies to manage their resources and equipment. This strategies can be categorized through two distinct group. The first group is outsourcing and the second one is in-house management. In some organizations due to the strategic aspects of the equipment, the competitive advantage or restrictive policies, there is a low tendency for outsourcing. Through this approach, the equipment and resources are idle due to partial need on organization. This causes a high amount of investment blockage which faces the organization with high cost of missing investment opportunities. Through the strategic insight, the capitals which have a high potential for making revenue...
A Novel Framework for Change Management Leadership with Focus on Human Resource (HR) Factors
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ;
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The world around us changes almost every second, so the economy in this world feels it more by every single minute. When we look at the organizational structures, they experience lots of things for keeping the companies competitive and the human resources have the main role among the other stimulating factors.The human resource management and its improvements have done a lot in this century to organize and manage the human problems in organizations. After that those companies that had more effective strategies become on top of this important management system. By changing fast the work models companies experience more and immediate changes that may not happen even through the years. In this...
Supply Chain Strategy Selection Using Integration of Analytical Network Process and System Dynamics
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M.Sc. Thesis
Sharif University of Technology
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Kianfar, Farhad
(Supervisor)
Abstract
In today’s global marketplace, individual firms no longer compete as independent entity in market, but rather as integral part of supply chain. Therefore, final success of company completely depends on its managerial ability to coordinate the network of business relationships among supply chain parts. In strategy research, the importance of supply chain strategic management concepts has long been discussed and recognized to hold the potential to lead to business success. Due to complex nature of business environment, managers need to use a integrated decision structure supporting all variables and their interactions. To identify an supply chain base organization’s strategy this study...
Toward A Framework For Business Activity Monitoring Based On Enterprise Service Bus
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Habibi, Jafar (Supervisor) ; Abtahi, Ebrahim (Co-Advisor)
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Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) is a method for evaluating current condition of organization from the viewpoint of reaching to its strategic objectives and helps man-agerstobe informed straight forwardly about thecurren tstatu sofeach Key Performance Indicator (KPI). Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is an infrastructure for transferring web services between some software components that performs in Service Oriented Archi-tecture (SOA) domain and its goal is improving interoperability between components.As BAM needs to interact with other systems to receive event flow and ESB assists this interaction, there is a need to define a general framework to establish communication between them and...
Integrated coastal management plan in free trade zones, a case study
, Article Ocean and Coastal Management ; Volume 54, Issue 2 , February , 2011 , Pages 129-136 ; 09645691 (ISSN) ; Majd, F ; Sharif University of Technology
2011
Abstract
Free Trade Zones (FTZs) around the world offer special advantages to investors and facilitate import/export of goods in order to boost the regional economy. Integrated coastal management in these areas faces special challenges in addition to what ordinary ICZMs usually encounter. For a successful ICZM plan, the very strong business orientation in FTZs has to be taken into account, while other important aspects such as environmental, social, and cultural issues should not be overlooked. The problem becomes more difficult where the free zone is situated in sensitive and valuable environmental circumstances.Kish Island, a free trade zone in the Persian Gulf region, has recently been the focus...
A strategic management model for evaluation of health, safety and environmental performance
, Article Environmental Monitoring and Assessment ; Volume 184, Issue 5 , 2012 , Pages 2981-2991 ; 01676369 (ISSN) ; Toutounchian, S ; Roayaei, E ; Nassiri, P ; Sharif University of Technology
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Strategic health, safety, and environmental management system (HSE-MS) involves systematic and cooperative planning in each phase of the lifecycle of a project to ensure that interaction among the industry group, client, contractor, stakeholder, and host community exists with the highest level of health, safety, and environmental standard performances. Therefore, it seems necessary to assess the HSE-MS performance of contractor(s) by a comparative strategic management model with the aim of continuous improvement. The present Strategic Management Model (SMM) has been illustrated by a case study and the results show that the model is a suitable management tool for decision making in a contract...