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To actualize and making the outputs of a project effectual, it is necessary to conduct an effective management during a project. This case may not be possible without accurately planning for activities, management and controlling all phases of a project ignoring the risk management of that project. If risks of a project cannot be detected before conducting a project, it is possible to challenge the performance and even effectiveness of the project. In current conditions, the most important problem of managers and executives of construction projects through the country is risk management of projects, not acknowledging with definitions of risk, models of risk management and lack of a model for... 

In this study, factors which lead in failures in reengineering processes in project based companies have been investigated. The research used qualitative methods, and finally using theme analysis to identify the main factors.Consequently, the main causes of failure of re-engineering projects have been identified and classified in six basic categories including: organizational leadership, planning, human resources management, mental models causing resistance, culture and organizational climate and communication. That each of these themes includes some subset of the agents it represents. In this study, a suitable pattern for organizations which intend to perform reengineering has been... 

A Balanced Scorecard (BSC) model is proposed to evaluate performance of Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) management systems. This model includes key performance indicators at three integrated levels. It has been tested and verified in a project-based organization in Iran, active in the area of power and energy. Results show that the company has done well in implementing HSE management processes, but no so well in growth and learning. This model may be used as a basis for comparing different companies and various proposed programs in the field of HSE management systems. The model includes indicators and sub-indicators in each category particularly related to stakeholders, processes, and... 

Supply chain management has been developed extensively in second half of last century and the development has been continued up to present century. Nowadays Development and conformity of production and inventory control methods with JIT philosophy in production line level is one of the topics that received much attention from researchers. An increasing interest in the scope of JIT philosophy is on the extension and adaptation of Pull policies such as Kanban and CONWIP for materials and production control. In a real-life environment, companies are subjected to various types of uncertainties such as stochastic processing times and variable demand. This uncertain environment could cause lots... 

Evolutions in the economy, society and politics has raised knowledge as a key element in the development and competitiveness and knowledge management is considered one of the essential elements in this field. By taking temporary nature of the project into account, dynamics and competition in the project-oriented organizations business world makes the preservation and management of knowledge in project-based organizations more important. Lesson learned system is one of the knowledge management tools that can propose strategic solutions which avoid wasting of time and money and make perfect use of knowledge management accomplishments.In this study, by using literature review, interview and... 

First processes and structures related to mining projects and holding companies are introduced after words using descriptive and discovery research method. The processes are analyzed and FakurSanat holding company structures and processes are examined as an analyzed organization. Suggestions are also provided structures and processes amendment or to reinforce each of them. Processes and structures have been described without any change or correction. Then, FakurSanat Tehran Company which was investigated as a Holding company, and suggestions that were made regarding the correcting and reinforcing its processes and structures have been mentioned. These processes and structures have been... 

The goal of this research is to study the effective factors in order to overcome resistance to change. In today’s competitive world, change is the most critical competitive advantage of an organization to adapt to new circumstances. The failure rate of change projets is more than 70% and there are various factors responsible for this high rate. One of the most important factors is resistance to change. In this research, traditional studies of change starting in the 19’s by Kurt Lewin is the strat point, who had initiated the studies of this field with his three-step model. In recent decades, newer models have emerged which in contrast with previous versions, focused on an individual as the... 

Despite a rather long history of bureaucratic public administration, Iranian public sector has failed to catch up with the ever developing knowledge of fighting corruption in “public procurement”, a critical field of governmental management which accounts for at least 15 percent of GDP around the world. While international organizations like TI and OECD have been broadly active in globalizing the standards of integrity and calling for improvements in the national frameworks of procurement, a reductionist agenda might take the safest path of change by following whatever prescribed by those international bodies. However, there have also been some deeper reflections on the complexities of... 

Nowadays, the selection and updating the projects portfolio in project-based organizations is mentioned as one of the most challenging issues. Project based organizations used to try to shape their portfolios according to their strategic direction. Portfolio management is especially attended for project based organizations in IT industry in which there is a lot of project proposals with different objectives and scales. On one hand, the best approach for corporate strategy implementation in these kinds of organizations is based on project and portfolio management and on the other hand, the portfolio management in these organizations will affect the strategic direction. In the Persian... 

Competitive pressures force manufacturers to continuously improve the provision of products and associated services desired by customers. One of the most comparative industries in the world is automotive industry. Since the advent, these industries have tried to use new tools for better management. So, tools such as lean production were developed in these industries. The lean production was considered by many productive industries. The TOYOTA Company which is now one of the giant car makers implements well the lean production. More or less the Iranian automotive industries have also considered this parameter. One of these Iranian industries is Iran khodro Company. As many competitors adopted... 

Outsourcing has considerably increased in number, as evident by the literature. Many activities, once being carried out by the organization itself, are now accomplished by contractors. Nowadays, implementing successful outsourcing projects is an important and challenging deal for outsourcer organizations. Such organizations always aim to finish their projects based on a defined scope of time, budget and quality while accepted by the final customer. Managers are trying to use outsourcing strategy more extensively but are faced with various problems in practice. So it’s advantageous to perform a research to identify these difficulties to be able to employ this strategy more efficiently. Due to... 

The current thesis argues about employee Performance Appraisal System (PAS) of damavand project which is one of the MAPNA Combined Cycle Power Plant Construction and Development Co (MD-2) projects.A few studies have been done in the field of human resource management in project structure and project-based organizations in comparison with classic organizations structure. the PAS might have a different role in project structure as a function in human resource management.In this research the required data has collected via interview with employees and some top managers of MD-2 Company.and Theme analysis has been used to analyzing the data. this study has described the effect of organizational,... 

As an extension of known project scheduling problems which consider only time-independent costs, this problem includes both time- independent procurement costs and time-dependent renting costs for the resources. Consequently, in addition to projects where all resources are bought, we can deal with projects where resources are rented.
A resource Renting problem is a project-scheduling problem in which the availability levels of the rented resources are considered decision variables and the goal is to find a schedule and resource renting such that some objective function optimizes. In this thesis, we consider a resource renting problem in which the goal is to maximize the net present... 

From the past, oil and gas industry has been among important industries in Iran and a major source of the government income. Hence achieving successful projects in the industry is of great importance for the country’s development and timely completion has always been considered as one of the characteristics of a successful project. Developing oil and gas fields, as it affect all of the other projects in this industry, is construed as crucial.In this regard, from the first oil exploration in Iran, authorities have signed different types of contracts with many contractors to develop oil and gas fields. Nonetheless projects in this industry, as of the projects in the construction industry in... 

Increasing growth of the internet and e-commerce usage, which has resulted in arising of new markets, has made organizations more flexible in responding to customer needs. It also facilitates the accessibility of customers to a wide range of service providers. Therefore, the importance of customer satisfaction is escalating.The case study is about technical inspection services. In this field, the responsibility of the quantity and quality check of the purchased goods or the operation supervision is delegated to a third-party inspection company by the buyer or project owner. In such companies, almost all critical activities are farming out to a vast group of inspectors around the world. Thus,... 

Over the past two decades, in developed countries, public-private partnerships have been used as a mechanism to provide the required infrastructure by using private sector capacity. Risk management is the most critical factor in achieving optimal "value for money" in this type of project. In Iran, this is still far from its maturity and the growing trend of adopting this method and the vacuum of its academic literature in the country, necessitate such research. This study has been written to solve this problem due to the lack of risk management framework in the contracts of Tehran Municipality's Partnerships Organization. This dissertation covers three stages of risk management, which... 

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... 

A company's knowledge is one of its most valuable assets. In this regard, project-based companies operating temporarily with constantly changing project members try hard to manage their knowledge, an important asset that also provides them with a competitive advantage. One of the biggest challenges of project-based organizations is how to facilitate the processes of sharing knowledge which enables the organization to capture and implement its knowledge successfully. In this study, the governance mechanisms of innovation ecosystems are used to support the effective use of knowledge-sharing mechanisms across projects and subgroups of the organization.This study analyzes Kayson holding as its... 

A company's knowledge is one of its most valuable assets. In this regard, project-based companies operating temporarily with constantly changing project members try hard to manage their knowledge, an important asset that also provides them with a competitive advantage. One of the biggest challenges of project-based organizations is how to facilitate the processes of sharing knowledge which enables the organization to capture and implement its knowledge successfully. In this study, the governance mechanisms of innovation ecosystems are used to support the effective use of knowledge-sharing mechanisms across projects and subgroups of the organization.This study analyzes Kayson holding as its... 

The prosperity of online marketplaces depends on their ability to attract and keep sellers besides customers. Due to the lack of research in evaluating the role of sellers in this business model, the study tries to fill this gap through examining the effect of logistics capability on sellers' performance in an online marketplace. Specifically, a research model is developed to evaluate the effect of a customized logistics service, provided by the intermediary, on sellers' performance in the marketplace. In addition, the indirect effect of logistics capability as a mediator is examined on the previous causal link. Strong empirical support for the research model is provided by data from 1546...