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One of the most important concerns of top management is continuous growth in revenue and profit specially in corporate with maturing core businesses. So managers invest vastly in growth opportunities but most of them lead to failure. One of the reasons can be the mistakes in growth opportunity identification. Growth opportunity Identifications needs a clear understanding of different dimensions in opportunities. In this research, a conceptual framework named “Reference Conceptual Framework for growth opportunity Identification” has been presented which includes four different dimensions: 1) “Where” including the distance of opportunity from core business and its impact on the core 2) “Which”... 

This study reviews the platforms developed in the context of collaborative product design by using cloud computing infrastructures in the field of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and proposes some criteria to evaluate these platforms. Considering the limitations of these platforms, a network has been designed for collaboration between the engineering, procurement, and construction companies as well as the employers. In this network, by registering a project by the employer, the bidding process begins. The member firms in the network, by controlling the timing and through a proper allocation of labour forces, propose their preliminary designs as well as their bid prices to the... 

In the Iranian economy, the unemployment rate has always been volatile and double-digit, and this has had a devastating effect on people's livelihoods and the welfare of society. Therefore, job creation has always been the main concern of policymakers. To increase employment, based on the Okun's law, the output must be increased. Since from an economic point of view, economic growth should be accompanied by employment growth and there should be a positive relationship between the employment growth rate and the country's economic growth rate. But in 1384 to 1398, the Iranian labor market has experienced a puzzling behavior in terms of the growth of the total number of employees and the growth... 

The capital structure of a firm significantly impacts its risk. Various theories have attempted to model the behavior of firms, with three of the most important being the Static Trade-Off Theory, the Pecking Order Theory, and the Market Timing Theory. In this study, using the Static Trade-Off Theory and the partial adjustment method, the effect of the real interest rate and the direction of deviation from the optimal capital structure on the speed of capital structure adjustment to the optimal leverage ratio was examined. The study data includes financial statements of non-financial firms in the Iranian capital market from 2002 to 2022. The results show that when a firm significantly...