mojtaba rafiei; Hosein Balochi; Majid Nematollahi; Samira Mottaghi
Volume 4, Issue 1 , January 2016, , Pages 121-140
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to enhance the capability of companies in product innovation using organizational knowledge.Therefore, this paper is dealing with examining the effect of organizational knowledge on performance and innovation of new products at knowledge-based companies of Science and Technology ...
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The purpose of this paper is to enhance the capability of companies in product innovation using organizational knowledge.Therefore, this paper is dealing with examining the effect of organizational knowledge on performance and innovation of new products at knowledge-based companies of Science and Technology Park located in Khorasan Razavi Province and clarifying that if organizational knowledge leads to innovation of new products and performance improvement? Thus, important factors that link knowledge, performance and product innovation of organizations has been presented in a structural model. The research statistical universe included Science and Technology Park companies in Razavi Khoerasan province. To reach the sample mass, convenience sampling method was used. A standard questionnaire was used to collect data. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by convergent and divergent validity and its reliability confirmed by Cronbach's alpha and combined reliability. To test the hypothesis, Structural Equations Modeling and Partial Least Squares approaches by WARP PLS software was used.The results of this study showed that organizational knowledge affects on innovative information, information acquisition efficiency and its interpretation. The effect of efficiency of acquisition information on the performance of the new product was not confirmed.Organizational structuremoderated the relationship between organizational knowledge and informationacquisition and its efficiency but the moderator role of this variable was not significant in the relationship between organizational knowledge and information interpretation
Hosein Baloochi; Abbas Ali Rastgar
Volume 3, Issue 3 , September 2015, , Pages 71-91
Abstract
Business cynicism is one of the important phenomenon’s of business difficulties in present century. Many factors are effective in appearance of cynicism in businesses. In field of business cynicism and its effective factor, lots of studies have been accomplished but there is no comprehensive research ...
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Business cynicism is one of the important phenomenon’s of business difficulties in present century. Many factors are effective in appearance of cynicism in businesses. In field of business cynicism and its effective factor, lots of studies have been accomplished but there is no comprehensive research that included all of these factors and finding the relationship between them. The aim of this research is recognition of effective factors on business cynicism and designing a model related to their relationship. The research is a mixed exploratory research including two stages: qualitative and quantitative-qualitative. In qualitative stage, first of all, effective factors on business cynicism (9 factors) were recognized by studying the literature of business cynicism and also using meta-combination method. The factors were classified in three categories of personal and individual factors (factors related to personality and individual and mental factors), organizational factors (bad organizational atmosphere, cynicism to organizational changes, injustice perception, poor performance and negative perception of managerial acts) and occupational factors. At the next step, the relationship between these factors was determined by interpretive-structural modeling and was analyzed integratedly. In the modeling stage, a questionnaire was used to get the idea of 15 experts of organizational behavior. Those were selected by snowball method. Results led to classification of effective factors on business cynicism and design a model out of the factors. The model shows the factors and the relationship and communication between them. At the end, interpretation of the model, analysis of model's levels and relationship between dimensions were done and solutions were suggested to prevent appearing of this phenomenon in organizations.
