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Volume 8, Issue 20 (12-2004)
Abstract
One of the most important difficulties with existing companies ranking models is their emphasis on just one critical index, such as income or sale. In other word, they rank companies in terms of their activity size not their performance, excellence and advantages. The aim of this paper is to remove this difficulty by designing a general comprehensive raking model based on companies performance, excellence and advantages. The proposed model is an extension to Balanced Score Card (BSC) model. It conists of 6 major components named financial, internal process, customer, development and innovation, human resources and finally management. It also includes 422 indices, and applies MADM technique for weighting indices and final ranking. The model is also practically tested to rank 8 major Iranian automobile makers based on 40 existing data in Tehran Stock Exchange. The results of ranking provided at the ending section of the paper.
Volume 9, Issue 2 (7-2005)
Abstract
The aim of this research, Which lead to the study of those factors that influence the process is to design and clear up the model of automobile industry development technology in Iran, with putting emphasis on the exportation strategy of technology exportation/development of automobile industry and achievement of suitable model. The connoisseurs in the field of exportation development have presented different point of views and every researcher has tried to study the subject of exportation development. The method of performing is descritive research either within the field or the measurement, and the industrial situation of automobile manufacturing in Iran has been study and put into comparative estimate with Korea. Statistical community of the study, consistes of experts and managers and the necessary information for analysis was collected through questionnaire (in 112 questions) and interview. The most importand statistical test in use is Spearman correlation test that beside it, Wilcoxon and Friedman tests are used as well. Based on Spearman correlation test, there is a significant relation, among human resources development, organizational culture development, organizational structure development and managerial structure development on one hand and technology development on the other hand. (Human Resources Development-0.852), (Organizational Culture-0.879), (Organizational Structure-0.722), (Managerial Structure Development-0.861). One of the outcomes of this research, is making a comparison between Iran and Korea technology development situation with applying SWOT techniques and for so doing, Wilcoxon and Friedman tests are used which indicate. There is a meaningful difference between Iran and Korea from the viewpoint of technology development. At the end some suggestions for technology development, were allowed too.
Volume 13, Issue 4 (9-2010)
Abstract
Lately, organizations have become increasingly aware of the value of managing their organizational learning and knowledge. Thus researchers have investigated those processes extensively. Still something is missing in the current discussions of organizational knowledge: organizations do not just learn; they also forget. Knowledge management is creating processes not only for learning and retaining what is important but also for avoiding or unlearning what is not important. Forgetting, like learning, is not simple: it may be detrimental or beneficial, accidental or purposeful. By the way, in all cases, it can significantly affect, in both negative and positive ways, the competitiveness of an organization. In the present study, in addition to the investigation of concept and forms of organizational forgetting, we studied the relationship between purposeful organizational forgetting and charismatic leadership and determined of the amount of organizational forgetting, due to strategic importance of purposeful organizational forgetting. The data necessary for this study were through questionnaires that were given to 165 top and middle managers and supervisors in the supply chain of Iran automobile industry. Correlation analysis of data by chi-square test showed that there is a significant relationship between every dimensions of purposeful forgetting (new and established knowledge) and charismatic leadership.
Negin Binazir,
Volume 14, Issue 56 (12-2021)
Volume 14, Issue 56 (12-2021)
Abstract
Roaming is a phenomenon of modern life and experience and also a possibility to be in the city/ street. An existence in halt and an experience in hurry, a paradoxical life of being the viewer and the viewed, of desire to be lost and found, of perception without concentration. City and roaming subject find meaning and identity in interaction, intertwined link and exactness with each other. City gets spatial in subject’s strolls and it is studied and read as text or human body. The present article has dealt with the analysis of two novels; Sara Salar’s “I’m probably Lost” and Sina Dadkhah’s “Yousefabad, Thirty Third Avenue” from “roaming subject” viewpoint. It shows how city’s components and phenomena such as passages, park statues, streets, etc. are read and narrated by story characters as text and also experienced as the physical in relation to characters’ perspective, regrets, concerns, and memories. City/ Tehran is the pivotal character in both novels which turns into a surreal landscape in daydreaming and imaginative power of stroller parallel to present life and yesterday’s memories. Characters’ roaming whether in afoot roaming case of Saman, Neda and Leila Jahed or in automobile roaming of Hamed Nejat and Gandom, which is a new style of roaming, narrates an unusual and different and a special relation of subjects’ attachment to city/ street.
Extended abstract
According to the perception of the observer in the car, who moves at a higher speed than pedestrians in urban spaces, it can be concluded that the car forms a new kind of urban perception because it shows a city in motion to passengers. The present article analyses the phenomenon of wandering and its semantic-conceptual correlations from the perspective of studies and urban anthropology among the urban novels of the last two decades and has chosen two novels entitled "Man Ehtemālan Gom Shodeh Am" [I’m Probably Lost] by Sara Salar and "Yousefabad, khiābān-e 33" [Yousefabad, Thirty Third Avenue] by Sina Dadkhah and shows how the city is read as a context, body, and with a focus on characters in wanderings along with the characters' memory-play and lovemaking. All the characters of the story reach this sameness and unique identity with the city in the shelter of wandering in the city/streets, in associations, escapes, representations and disappearances. In tracing the relationship and role of the components and figures of the city (malls, street, coffee shops, parks, sculptures, billboards and advertisements, cars, highways, etc.) with the characters of the story, it is explained how the characters each exist and is identified with their concerns, situations, and longings with a body of the city, in the city, and with the city, and re-read and recreated the city as feminine or masculine in their bodily experiences.
Considering and reflecting on a city as a context, the city appears and becomes a meaningful body. A system of signs and a text opened in front of the eyes of the wandering person that the body and organs of the city are tied, known, read and interpreted to its semantic and spiritual origins. Almost the entire novel “Man Ehtemalan Gom Shodeh Am” takes place in the streets, with Gandom wandering in her car. Tehran in this novel is a context that is rewritten and recreated in signs, magnifications, protrusions, neglects of the presenter / radio reporter and advertisement of large billboards, in parallel motion and in relation to this identity, negative and positive, in the continuation, completion, and Gandom’s current contradiction and her past life. In the novel “Yousefabad, Thirty Third Avenue”, the body of the city is formed for Neda with the park and its sculptures; sculptures that are the friends of Neda, but with a clear and distinct identity. Neda talks to them; she talks about her childhood, her fears and worries. In the reading of Professor Nejat, Neda’s English Professor, the city is like a human body; a body that surrounds us. In both novels, Tehran is being lived and experienced as a physical body for the wandering characters of the story, a gendered body. Tehran, the most important and pivotal character of both novels, has shared the possibility of a friendly physical body with its wanderers and flows like blood in the veins of all Tehranians. For Hamed Nejat, Tehran is "the grey queen", a feminine and soothing body, and for Neda, it is a masculine and supportive body that embraces the wanderer and hears and accompanies them with their loves, restlessness and loneliness. The wandering and the experience of the city as a physical thing lead to the alignment and similarity of the city and the wanderer. Tehran is a friend, a lover, a beloved and a companion that now its presence and atmosphere are intertwined with the wanderers of the story. Farid Rahdar, the old love of Gandom, "loved to walk. In the streets, in the alleys and back-alleys, in the parks, in the highways. He said “a person exists as long as he walks; as long as he hits these two legs firmly on the ground." For Farid, walking means to be existed and lived. The street provides the possibility of being and the moving of wanderer. With the change of urban context and the expansion of car-centred cities, driving and strolling by car joined the body of wandering; a kind of wandering that brought cinematic perception and experience to the wanderer through movement, acceleration, and looking from the perspective of the car / windshield. The entire novel “I’m Probably Lost” is formed in the narrative of Gandom wandering with her car. For her, the narrative of now and yesterday, memories, fears, worries and lack of love goes on in framing the city through car glass. Scenes, images, consecutive similarities of billboards / advertisements, cars and people, and the sound of the radio in parallel motion are fragmentary scenes that are compiled and assembled by a wandering narrator. In the story of the city and its people, all urban phenomena (stones, sculptures, cars, boutiques) come to life in the connection and interaction of imagination, dream with reality and space. Memories are represented and recreated in the context of successive associations, in a movement parallel to the events and today’s life of the wanderer, and in highlighting the joys and sorrows of yesterday and her lived experiences. Tehran is the focal point of the narrative of all four parts of the novel " Yousefabad, Thirty Third Avenue", which is represented and configured in the context of wandering, memory playing, Saman playing in the stores, Leila Jahed’s inner journey, machine wandering of Hamed and Neda in Park. For Saman, all waiting time to meet Neda for the first time and all wanderings in malls are formulated with the memory of Sepideh’s love, Saman being slapped by Mina Faghani / Neda's brother, and his teenage memories. Leila Jahed's inner journey is a safe possibility in the face of the current precarious situation. The yesterday bitterness of Nejat's move to New York at his mother's urging is paralleled by today's fear of losing again due to Neda's love for him. In the novels "I’m Probably Lost" and " Yousefabad, Thirty Third Avenue", the city of Tehran is not just a place to realize the story; rather, it is the main subject and the fundamental / pivotal character of the story. The failure to receive the volume of Tehran presence affects the audience's enjoyment, understanding and perception of the novel. On a macro level, Tehran embraces the characters of the story, gives them identity and existence, and becomes an inseparable meaning from today's story, yesterday's memories, and not-lived experiences and living; at the micro level, in its components and bodies, in the body of the characters, it determines the possibility of love, loss, finding, etc. In fact, the city of Tehran is a resort, shelter, friend, lover, beloved and companion that offers a kind of existence in accordance with each of the characters in the story. At the end of both stories, it is the city that stays and embraces everyone, a safe place where the characters of the story find their identity and existence as they walk, and the words come to life in the context of its streets.
Extended abstract
According to the perception of the observer in the car, who moves at a higher speed than pedestrians in urban spaces, it can be concluded that the car forms a new kind of urban perception because it shows a city in motion to passengers. The present article analyses the phenomenon of wandering and its semantic-conceptual correlations from the perspective of studies and urban anthropology among the urban novels of the last two decades and has chosen two novels entitled "Man Ehtemālan Gom Shodeh Am" [I’m Probably Lost] by Sara Salar and "Yousefabad, khiābān-e 33" [Yousefabad, Thirty Third Avenue] by Sina Dadkhah and shows how the city is read as a context, body, and with a focus on characters in wanderings along with the characters' memory-play and lovemaking. All the characters of the story reach this sameness and unique identity with the city in the shelter of wandering in the city/streets, in associations, escapes, representations and disappearances. In tracing the relationship and role of the components and figures of the city (malls, street, coffee shops, parks, sculptures, billboards and advertisements, cars, highways, etc.) with the characters of the story, it is explained how the characters each exist and is identified with their concerns, situations, and longings with a body of the city, in the city, and with the city, and re-read and recreated the city as feminine or masculine in their bodily experiences.
Considering and reflecting on a city as a context, the city appears and becomes a meaningful body. A system of signs and a text opened in front of the eyes of the wandering person that the body and organs of the city are tied, known, read and interpreted to its semantic and spiritual origins. Almost the entire novel “Man Ehtemalan Gom Shodeh Am” takes place in the streets, with Gandom wandering in her car. Tehran in this novel is a context that is rewritten and recreated in signs, magnifications, protrusions, neglects of the presenter / radio reporter and advertisement of large billboards, in parallel motion and in relation to this identity, negative and positive, in the continuation, completion, and Gandom’s current contradiction and her past life. In the novel “Yousefabad, Thirty Third Avenue”, the body of the city is formed for Neda with the park and its sculptures; sculptures that are the friends of Neda, but with a clear and distinct identity. Neda talks to them; she talks about her childhood, her fears and worries. In the reading of Professor Nejat, Neda’s English Professor, the city is like a human body; a body that surrounds us. In both novels, Tehran is being lived and experienced as a physical body for the wandering characters of the story, a gendered body. Tehran, the most important and pivotal character of both novels, has shared the possibility of a friendly physical body with its wanderers and flows like blood in the veins of all Tehranians. For Hamed Nejat, Tehran is "the grey queen", a feminine and soothing body, and for Neda, it is a masculine and supportive body that embraces the wanderer and hears and accompanies them with their loves, restlessness and loneliness. The wandering and the experience of the city as a physical thing lead to the alignment and similarity of the city and the wanderer. Tehran is a friend, a lover, a beloved and a companion that now its presence and atmosphere are intertwined with the wanderers of the story. Farid Rahdar, the old love of Gandom, "loved to walk. In the streets, in the alleys and back-alleys, in the parks, in the highways. He said “a person exists as long as he walks; as long as he hits these two legs firmly on the ground." For Farid, walking means to be existed and lived. The street provides the possibility of being and the moving of wanderer. With the change of urban context and the expansion of car-centred cities, driving and strolling by car joined the body of wandering; a kind of wandering that brought cinematic perception and experience to the wanderer through movement, acceleration, and looking from the perspective of the car / windshield. The entire novel “I’m Probably Lost” is formed in the narrative of Gandom wandering with her car. For her, the narrative of now and yesterday, memories, fears, worries and lack of love goes on in framing the city through car glass. Scenes, images, consecutive similarities of billboards / advertisements, cars and people, and the sound of the radio in parallel motion are fragmentary scenes that are compiled and assembled by a wandering narrator. In the story of the city and its people, all urban phenomena (stones, sculptures, cars, boutiques) come to life in the connection and interaction of imagination, dream with reality and space. Memories are represented and recreated in the context of successive associations, in a movement parallel to the events and today’s life of the wanderer, and in highlighting the joys and sorrows of yesterday and her lived experiences. Tehran is the focal point of the narrative of all four parts of the novel " Yousefabad, Thirty Third Avenue", which is represented and configured in the context of wandering, memory playing, Saman playing in the stores, Leila Jahed’s inner journey, machine wandering of Hamed and Neda in Park. For Saman, all waiting time to meet Neda for the first time and all wanderings in malls are formulated with the memory of Sepideh’s love, Saman being slapped by Mina Faghani / Neda's brother, and his teenage memories. Leila Jahed's inner journey is a safe possibility in the face of the current precarious situation. The yesterday bitterness of Nejat's move to New York at his mother's urging is paralleled by today's fear of losing again due to Neda's love for him. In the novels "I’m Probably Lost" and " Yousefabad, Thirty Third Avenue", the city of Tehran is not just a place to realize the story; rather, it is the main subject and the fundamental / pivotal character of the story. The failure to receive the volume of Tehran presence affects the audience's enjoyment, understanding and perception of the novel. On a macro level, Tehran embraces the characters of the story, gives them identity and existence, and becomes an inseparable meaning from today's story, yesterday's memories, and not-lived experiences and living; at the micro level, in its components and bodies, in the body of the characters, it determines the possibility of love, loss, finding, etc. In fact, the city of Tehran is a resort, shelter, friend, lover, beloved and companion that offers a kind of existence in accordance with each of the characters in the story. At the end of both stories, it is the city that stays and embraces everyone, a safe place where the characters of the story find their identity and existence as they walk, and the words come to life in the context of its streets.
Volume 22, Issue 3 (7-2015)
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to identify factors and components that affect a trust-based cooperation in the automobile supply chain and their impact on the performance of the supply chain companies. This paper includes 2 parts. In the first part, by studying the research history and literature and interviewing academic and industrial scholars and experts, four hidden variables of trust-based cooperation in automobile industry were identified and the basic research model was designed. In the second part, using Structural Equation verification and path analysis, the impact of these variables on trust-based cooperation and the impact of trust-based cooperation on the performance of the supply chain companies were studied. Research population consisted of Iran-Khodro and Saipa’s supply chain companies including part makers, major car manufacturers and distributors. Data gathering method was questionnaires that were given to 400 companies –one questionnaire per company- 196 of which were returned and analyzed. In this phase, first, by confirmatory factor analysis and path analysis, validity and stability of the indexes that were derived from the model in the first phase, were tested, all of which were confirmed. Four hypotheses were developed based on the conceptual model of the research and tested by path analysis. According to the findings, 3 of the hypotheses were confirmed and one was rejected. Based on the results of the research, some suggestions were presented for improving the performance of companies in the automobile supply chain and for future researches.
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