IMPROVING COMPANY PERFORMANCE IN RURAL AREAS: INSTITUTIONAL THEORY APPROACH

Improving Institutional Performance through IT-Enabled Innovation

Social Analysis of Household Energy Consumption in Rural Areas: Case of Rural Areas in Sari Province

Today, how to use home energy is one of the most important fundamental challenges of modern societies, which raises the need for efficient use of energy. The purpose of this study is to investigate the social factors affecting household energy consumption in rural areas of Sari city in Mazandaran province. The method of this research was survey and data were collected using a questionnaire. ....

Performance Management: Improving and Sustaining Performance in Rural Hospitals

Volume 2, Issue 2 A financially stable hospital is crucial to a community’s health as well as its economy, especially in rural settings. Local hospitals not only provide residents with essential health care services, they are also a major employer and help fuel the local economy. Today, however, many of this country’s 1,600 small rural hospitals struggle to maintain financial stability and resp...

evaluation of innovative performance of knowledge based company by network data envelopment analysis-game theory approach

the performance evaluation and efficiency measurement of software companies and compare them together as a set of knowledge-based activities due to the unknown of internal processes and stages common to these companies and ignoring these processes in performance evaluation by data envelopment analysis models and how to consider these processes and procedures for calculating efficiency of each s...

Administrative Culture in Iran: an Institutional Approach

shows how a government approaches the running of the country. Administrative governance behavior shows the type of administrative culture which dominates the country. Administrative culture at its fundamental analytical level looks at the behavioral pattern embracing the country’s administrative system. Taking into account the modern institutional approach, this article intends to define and ev...