Due to the rapid changing environment, shortening product life cycles, and increasing cost of R&D (Research and Development), the company cannot maintain its competitiveness by only relying on its internal R&D capability. Unlike the traditional closed innovation in the enterprise, open innovation and wikinomics have changed the innovation model and create a new way to success. The concepts of o...

It is recognized that the implementation of a cross-functional enterprise system requires a more sustained and comprehensive change management program than is the case for classical IS application development. We can presume that the tools and techniques used to conduct such projects will differ, as will the roles and the responsibilities of each contributor to the projects. The impacts of this...

R esearchers have argued that human resources may be seen as a source of sustained competitive advantage for organizations (Barney, 1991, 1995; Becker & Gerhart, 1996). The underlying assumption is that human resources are unique to the extent that competitors cannot imitate them. This research has led to the identification of a number of human resource management practices that contribute to c...

The capitalist and socialist societies of the 20 century assigned firms different roles within their economic systems. Enterprises transforming themselves from socialist to market economies thus face fundamental organizational restructuring. Many former state-owned firms in the transitional economies of Central and Eastern Europe failed, so far, at this task. Firms pursued primarily defensive d...

The capitalist and socialist societies of the 20 century assigned firms different roles within their economic systems. Enterprises transforming from socialist to market economies thus face fundamental organizational restructuring. Many former state-owned firms in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe have failed at this task. These firms have pursued primarily defensive downsiz...

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purpose: this research aims at investigating the role of ict on improving organizational performance in academic libraries of state universities in isfahan based on the balanced scorecard. method: the research method is descriptive survey study. the population consists of all 169 librarians of the university of isfahan, isfahan technical university and isfahan medical sciences university. the s...