a limited series of studies on capital structure have been conducted on small-to-medium size enterprises (smes). recent family-bases business literature suggests that these processes are influenced by firm owners’ attitudes toward the utility of debt as a form of financing. other factors like culture, entrepreneurial characteristics, and prior experiences may also be involved. this study intend...

today, change is a definite phenomenon and organizations should make themselves aligned with requirements for survival and success in the competitive market and retain customers. one of the main components of any organization that is undergoing these changes is the business processes of that organization. in other words, in a dynamic business environment, business processes are changed at runti...

abstract production is a process by which a productive activity will require some conditions (before and after the start of the production). one of the most important pre-required factors for start up a production unit is suitable business environment. one of the most important factors that must be provided after the start of production -during the production process and the time to market and ...

business related decisions become more perplexing as societies advance. environmental ambiguities which stem from new business models intensify the above mentioned complexity so far as many of the affecting variables and their interrelationships are non linear and complicated. in this circumstances data analysis and knowledge extraction is not practical via traditional methods. this research co...

university-industry collaboration (uic) creates highly skilled and productive business graduates for meeting demand of industry, globalization, knowledge economy, and job market at home and abroad. in coping with ongoing acute competitive pressures of the information edge, higher education curricula of business needs to be intellectually planned, through collaboration between university and ind...

in today's business environment in which coordination and adaptation with constant changes are the only ways of survival, real-time monitoring of activities and making the decisions accordingly are necessary. since performance measurement cannot be managed independent of business processes, business activity monitoring (bam) systems should monitor performance metrics based on business processes...

the effect of business regulations on economic growth (a selection of developed and developing countries) mohammad-hossein hosseinzade bahreini assistant professor of economics,ferdowsi university of mashhad mohammad ali falahi associate professor of economics,ferdowsi university of mashhad fatemeh erfany jahanshahi m.sc. in economics abstract in this research, the relationship between business...

optimal allocation of research funds based on research priorities; mobilization of existing research capacities and capabilities in small and medium enterprises and supporting enterprises to respond to research needs; create the necessary conditions for applying the research results and findings from necessary research projects; prospective study in research and avoid instantaneous and non-stra...

nowadays, the effort for ease of doing business is the more important worry in transition economies in the way of reaching in economic development and high competitiveness. according to intuitionalism theories, the inefficiency of judicial system causes to increase trade costs, and so, violates the business environment. by studying the rank of iran's ease in doing business between other world c...