ORIGINAL_ARTICLE
Organizational Codes of Ethics: Concepts, Methods and Challenges
Code of ethics is recognized as one of the most significant tools in preventing unethical organizational behaviors and satisfying the needs of both internal and external organizational stakeholders. The purpose of this study is to focus on previous studies and provide a systematic review of the related literature published from 1977 to 2012 in academic journals in order to determine the gaps, strengths and weaknesses of these studies. To achieve this end we examined the existing literature in terms of the publication trends, their purpose of studies, the focus of themes and contents, methodologies and findings as well as their contribution and managerial implication. The findings of this paper suggest that in order to improving the literature upon the organizational code of ethics worldwide, comparative and cross-cultural studies with diverse use of statistical samples as well as qualitative methods has to be emphasized.
http://journal.iams.ir/article_123_376f47e29eed86150a65b3d933a5f5e8.pdf
2013-04-13
1
24
ethics
organizational codes of ethics
ethical behavior
ethical-based culture
communications
ORIGINAL_ARTICLE
On economic prosperity: Providing a model for improving national competetiveness of Iran
National competitiveness as a platform for economic prosperity, attaining higher levels of welfare and living standards has attracted ample attention of both governors and scholars during the past decade. As a result of this attention, Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) of the World Economic Forum consists of twelve pillars, each of which addresses a certain (hardware or software) aspect of national competitiveness. This study aims at investigating the relationship between the pillars of GCI and economic prosperity in order to use that information for presenting a model to improve national competitiveness in Iran. We used the canonical correlation analysis (CCA) to identify the pillars that have more relevance in establishing the particular relationship between national competitiveness and economic prosperity, then we prioritized them by Entropy technique. Canonical correlation analysis on data from 139 countries shows that Technological readiness,Infrastructure and Higher education and training are respectively the most important pillars that affect Iran’s economic prosperity.
http://journal.iams.ir/article_124_b952896bd766e8f8ff90566ae910c8bf.pdf
2013-04-13
25
48
National Competitiveness
Economic Prosperity
Canonical Correlation Analysis
Entropy
ORIGINAL_ARTICLE
Competition: The Missing Link in Brand Extension Evaluation Process
New products usually are launched to market after performing a series of preliminary studies and assessing the customer acceptance. Many brand extensions have failed in spite of the extensive testing and estimation of products success. Even world's top brands are not immune from such failure. For years, most studies focused on the role of product features and the customer decision process in brand extension evaluation process and it seems that the role of product category variables have not been fully considered. This study aims to show that in addition to the fit the product category variables like competition and brand dominancy affect the initial supply test results. Ignoring these variables in success estimation of a new product and relying solely on concepts like fit, will cause over-estimation in the brand extension assessment and bring an irreversible failure to the company. The results of the study show that competition variables are active in different brand extension launch methods and competition significantly affects the brand extension assessment.
http://journal.iams.ir/article_125_a5cca1cd835c65da9eb1f6620930dc4c.pdf
2013-04-13
49
70
Brand Extension
Brand Extension Evaluation
Fit
Competition
Attitude Transfer
Relative Brand Dominance
ORIGINAL_ARTICLE
The role of BPR in the realization of ERP benefits
Implementing enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects needs relatively high amount of investment costs. Due to the high failure rates, these projects face real challenges and risks which in case of failure, lots of expenses are imposed to organizations. Business process reengineering (BPR) is one of the most important ERP critical success factors which is not appropriately investigated and discussed in academic literature. With this in mind, this study has evaluated the effects of BPR projects on ERP systems implementation benefits' realization. The statistical analysis in this study is based on questionnaire data gathered through Iranian organizations that implemented the ERP systems. The results reveal that there is a positive relationship between implementing BPR projects and gaining more benefits from ERP systems.
http://journal.iams.ir/article_126_c3713f26925a80bca124d4cf60066c6a.pdf
2013-04-13
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88
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Business process Reengineering (BPR)
ERP benefits
BPR process assessment
ORIGINAL_ARTICLE
The Impact of organizational citizenship behavior and psychological capital on social capital
In traditional view of management, economic, physical and human capitals, play a critical role in development of a society, but today, social capital is more important than other forms of capital, because in the absence of social capital, optimum use of other forms of capital is so hard to attain.
For improving social capital in organizations, recognition of influential factors, is necessary. In this study, organizational citizenship behavior and psychological capital are considered as two influential factors that have some effects on the improvement of social capital. The survey was conducted in the university of Isfahan and the sample was selected among the university staff based on a random sampling. Three questionnaires were used for measurement of organizationl citizenship behavior , psychological capital and social capital . The results show that both
organizational citizenship behavior and psychological capital have positive effect on social Capital.
http://journal.iams.ir/article_127_7de3f0d1f46588e8b87d3d7df7f24e9b.pdf
2013-04-13
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112
Social capital
Organizational citizenship behavior
phsychological capital
ORIGINAL_ARTICLE
Identification and classification of information technology program risks
In the challenging environment, organizations are facing the threats to survival and success requires using the approaches of risk management. Although the literature on project management and risk management are
abound but none of them has paid much attention to risk management as
a critical factor which contributes to the performance of the information technology strategic plan. In this paper the authors reviewed the literature on information technology project risks, general risks of the program, difference of program management and project management. By using meta synthesis approach and considering face and content’s similarities, 48 major risks in the area of information technology projects were identified. The priority of different factors were determined by experts and indicators in six main areas were categorized based on the Project Management Institute’s standards. Based on hierarchy clustering the result shows that the risks of benefits, environment, design, program, operation, project and portfolio are
in periority respectively
http://journal.iams.ir/article_128_a720243d2e76c45b64985035e6d27f3c.pdf
2013-04-13
113
126
Risk management
Project Management
information technology Program risk