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Promoting Corporate Entrepreneurship in Successive Generations of Family Firms: Identifying the Competencies of Predecessors and Successors
, Ph.D. Dissertation Sharif University of Technology ; Feyzbakhsh, Alireza (Supervisor)
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Corporate entrepreneurship has been shown to have a positive effect on the long-term growth of family firms. Therefore, identifying the factors affecting the promotion of corporate entrepreneurship in successive generations of a family firm could be critical. Out of a variety of factors the focus of this research is on indenfying the successor's competencies, the methods of developing the competencies in the successor, and the predecessor's competencies for developing the successor. In this regard, five Iranian family firm which have been entrepreneurial in different generations have been studied. The results show 17 competencies are needed for the successor to develop corporate...
Coordination of Pricing and Production Decesions of two Substitutable Products in Multi-periods
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Akbari Gokar, Mohammad Reza (Supervisor)
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This research aims to develop and propose mathematical models that can be used to facilitate cross-functional coordination between operations and marketing. The researcher has developed a dynamic model for integrating pricing and production decisions of substitutable products in order to maximize the profit of manufacturer in multi periods. The substitution is price-driven, customer-driven and both one-way and two-way directions are considered in two different models. Demand functions are linear, determined and a function of all prices. Due to the existence of substitution between products, the price elasticity is always positive and this parameter is used as a measure of substitution in...