Pathology
Habib Ebrahimpour; SHabnam Zarjou; Rouhollah Moazeni
Abstract
Considering the importance and vital role of governance as a mechanism for the development of countries, the current research aimed to extract and introduce the features and characteristics of governance based on Mohammad Ali Foroughi's political opinions and thoughts as a historical doctrine. In this ...
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Considering the importance and vital role of governance as a mechanism for the development of countries, the current research aimed to extract and introduce the features and characteristics of governance based on Mohammad Ali Foroughi's political opinions and thoughts as a historical doctrine. In this research, the interpretive paradigm and inductive approach were used. This research was exploratory and based on a qualitative method. The desired strategy for data collection was content analysis, and the data collection tool was the copying of documents, in which the book, letters, and manuscripts of Mohammad Ali Foroughi were analyzed as a statistical sample. The findings showed that the indicators of governance coordinates of Mohammad Ali Foroughi's opinions are numerous and diverse. These indicators were defined as the special achievement of the research on governance coordinates in the components of perceived integrity and integration of the ruler, democracy, citizen-centered, national maturity, learner, meritocracy, international policy maturity, and structural transparency, and were classified in the form of seven main categories, including meritocracy, national maturity, maturity of international politics, democracy, learning, structural transparency, and the perceived integrity of the ruler. These categories were introduced as governance features in Foroughi's political thoughts and opinions. These features can be extracted as a historical lesson and used for policy-making at different government and organizational levels. Based on these features, for using Foroughi's opinions and thoughts to optimize governance, policy making, and decision-making, suggestions were presented to the government and organization.
Pathology
Abbas Nasiri Zang Abad; Reza Rasouli; Hasan Alvedari; Ali Mohammad Zadeh
Volume 5, Issue 1 , January 2017, , Pages 91-106
Abstract
Although the term Entrepreneurship has been shaped and nurtured first time in the business area in the literarature, but today we can see it’s entering to the area of public services. One of the promotion of this attitude, is the creating of reinventing government theory. In the present study, ...
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Although the term Entrepreneurship has been shaped and nurtured first time in the business area in the literarature, but today we can see it’s entering to the area of public services. One of the promotion of this attitude, is the creating of reinventing government theory. In the present study, we decided to test the effect of injecting the mentioned theory in the public sector of Iran. For doing this, a fundamental research approach and Delphi techniqe, as well as confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling to assess construct validity was used. Delphi panels formed of 15 executives from administrative division population and academic faculty, consists of 15 members. For designing the primary questionnaire design, dimensions and variables was extracted from the theory. after 3 rounds of the Delphi, by eliminating the 5 variables of the 10 variables and adding 3 local variables, the 8 variables and 67 indicators of the final model were defined Variables include: community-opened, market orientated, mission-oriented, customer-driven, decentralized, promoting professional ethics, development the social justice and Jihadian management.
Mir Yaghoub SeyyedRezaei; Ali Asghar Pourezzat
Volume 4, Issue 4 , September 2016, , Pages 67-80
Abstract
Budget as the heart of policy-making process and budgeting as the most important process of decisionmaking in public institutions has the importance that their reform are considered as the reform of the government and the state affairs; reform that should focus on learning toward better budgeting because ...
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Budget as the heart of policy-making process and budgeting as the most important process of decisionmaking in public institutions has the importance that their reform are considered as the reform of the government and the state affairs; reform that should focus on learning toward better budgeting because budget reflects the government's activities and policies. This is while the accomplished researches and the introduction of multiple budgeting systems over the past years, has a story of the inefficiency of common budgeting systems in most countries; spreading this situation to our country persuaded the researchers to study in this case besides considering related observations to social and historical tissue. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the characteristics of an appropriate public budgeting system in viewpoint of experts and connoisseurs in field of budgeting and studying various perspectives in this area. Research method has been thematic analysis and main tool for data collection was interview. According to analysis of gathered data, five main themes with a set of sub-theme were identified as the headings of "realism and technology-driven", "reform-oriented and learning", "scientism and Knowledge-driven", "goal-oriented" and "value-oriented". It seems that taking into account these themes in government budgeting system and move toward the budget and budgeting reform, can be hoped that this important document guide society to excellence in learning path towards development and progress.
Modeling
Meysam Modarresi; Zahra Arasti; Kambiz Talebi; Maghsood Farasatkhah
Volume 4, Issue 2 , April 2016, , Pages 31-50
Abstract
In under-developing societies and even developed economies, home-based enterprises have been used as a device for economical growth and solving the problem of unemployment particularly for women. The role of these kinds of businesses in national and regional development causes government's attention ...
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In under-developing societies and even developed economies, home-based enterprises have been used as a device for economical growth and solving the problem of unemployment particularly for women. The role of these kinds of businesses in national and regional development causes government's attention to this subject and establishing special supporting policies for these kinds of businesses the more. According to the increasing predicaments of unemployment in Iran, especially for women, some actions have been taken for supporting home-based enterprise and their growth; but difficulties of these businesses still continue to be valid. Present research has dealt with the pathlogy of the government's supporting programs for home-based enterprise. For this, qualitative research method and 20 deep interviews with owner of home-based enterprises have been done. In addition, interview analysis was done through thematic analysis. Research results was presented in two groups of pathologies related to designing programs and pathologies related to executing programs. At the end, helpful diplomatic solutions were suggested to improve the government's supporting programs for home-based enterprises.
