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The purpose of this research has been measuring how much studied companies use different levers of controls. Management control system has been described as the system which ensures the organization about implementing its strategy (Antony, 2004; Simons, 1995). In this research we chose Levers of Control framework (Simons, 1995) as the proper model to describe management control systems in organizations. Using related literatures, we developed a questionnaire to measure how much different organizations use each levers of control. The proposed questionnaire was distributed in three businesses with different Value Creation Logics (Stabell & Fjeldstad, 1998), to provide a ... 

Endurance Time Method (ET) is a dynamic analysis in which structures are subjected to intensifying accelerograms and performance of them are assessed based on their response at different excitation levels. Duration consistency of current ET accelerograms has not been directly considered. Strong motion duration can strongly influence the response of structures and foundations especially when they encounter degrading characteristics in their materials. In this study, duration related properties of ET accelerograms and ground motions are compared. These properties consist of strong motion duration, cycles number of motion and number of nonlinear cycles which a structure should sustain when it... 

Each National Health System has to choose a combination of health and treatment programs, as the health policy to keep people healthy. As a result of shared resources, the more concentration on treatment, make health program weaker and so thegreater rate of prevalence of diseases and the more burden on treatment programs. At this situation, the problem of lack of ability to pay for health services and products will seriously threaten the health of society. Based on statistics of health status, Iran is going to face this state. So here at this thesis, in order to simulate and study the behaviors of key state variables during the time, the model of national health system developed by system... 

The strategic importance of Dynamic Capability (DC) has been a central theme in Strategic Management literature since Teece article released in 1997. But, relatively little attention has been given to the operationalization of the concept in organizations. In this paper we propose a framework based on Pavlo and Daneel researches to identify DC in an organization. Through a in-depth case study in dairy industry we explore the detail component of our framework. With a series of interviews with managers and experts of an Iranian dairy producing company, we first confirmed the framework as a whole and then we conclude that the process of DC introduced by Pavlo can have different interpretation... 

Endurance Time (ET) method is a dynamic analysis in which structures are subjected to intensifying acceleration time histories. These excitations are also called Endurance Time Excitation Functions (ETEF). The reliability and accuracy of the ET method heavily depends on the accuracy of ETEFs. ETEFs are generated so that ETEFs dynamic characteristics must be consistent with dynamic characteristics of real ground motions. Since the number of ETEFs equations are considerably more than variables noninear optimization is used to generate ETEFs. In order to improve the accuracy of ETEFs two approaches can be used. First, modifying the objective function equations by considering more dynamic... 

In the last few decades, the severe damages caused by near-field earthquakes have made researchers to investigate and study more of these types of earthquakes. The effect of forward directivity, which causes pulses with strong amplitude and long period in the velocity time history, is the main cause of severe damages of these types of earthquakes. The endurance time method is a dynamic analysis method in which the structure is subjected to increasing excitation functions. The purpose of this research is to investigate the effects of near-field earthquakes on structures and also to determine the accuracy of estimating responses caused by near-field earthquakes by the existing endurance time... 

One of Iran’s most important priorities at present is the development of the human resources and one of the most important skills of this human resource is decision making and problem solving. During the past few years, there have been numerous criticisms about the educational system in Iran without a substantial solution being offered to replace the existing approach. Aseman Group has been trying to promote system thinking in children. In Aseman, they believe that system thinking is one probable solution in order to develop thinking, decision making and problem solving skills in our human resource at early age. However, one of the many problems facing this group, is the resistance shown by... 

Organizational learning is essential for organizations to grow and survive. Organizations can gain competitive advantage through proper organizational learning. Number of studies in this field in recent years shows the importance of this issue among practioners and academics. The first step in managing organzaitonal learning is its measurement. Organizations can be provided with solutions if an appropriate measurement tool is designed. The main question of this research is whether this tool can be designed or not so that organizational learning in organizational processes can be measured. Despite the significance of organizational learning measurement, the current studies in this field lack... 

Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing is a popular distributed computing paradigm for many applications which in-volve exchange of information among a large number of peers. In such applications, large amount of data is distributed among multiple dispersed sources. Therefore, data analysis is challenging due to processing, storage and transmission costs. Moreover, the data rarely remains static and frequent data changes, quickly out date previously extracted data mining models. Distributed data mining deals with the problem of data analysis in environments with distributed data and computing resources. In this dissertation, we explore distributed data mining in different structures of P2P systems. In... 

The main question of this research is this: what mechanisms drive the increase of the share of health costs in GDP in Germany? Answering this question not only improves our understanding about health systems in general, but also is specifically useful for the health system of Iran, since it is experiencing similar trends as the health system of Germany does. Since these mechanisms are complex and the ability of human brain to process several interacting variables simultaneously is low, we need a strong methodology and a tool to overcome this limitation. System thinking as a methodology and system dynamics as its tool help us do so. Using system dynamics, we will develop a computer model... 

In this study; technology transfer to the Farab and Butan fromabsorptive capacity perspective is under inquiry. First we have complete literature review until we can provide good understanding toward absorptive capacity concept in organizational level. George and Zahra model has been chosen as a base model. Farab and Butan have chosen because of their recent successes in knowledge transfer. Based on George and Zahra model we develop a semi-structured questionnair and run it in Farab and Butan. We have findings in how organization can transfer knowledge to their networks to increase their AC, also we have findings in different ways organizations transfer different kinds of knowledge