In the biotechnology industry today, there are many business models for project commercialization. These models range from independent vertical integration to certain forms of collaboration with pharmaceutical companies to complete acquisitions of projects by the big pharmaceutical companies. In this thesis, we wanted to study commercialization strategies of several biotechnology companies. We ...

Global managers report that high unforeseen costs impact project outcomes and that many unforeseen costs arise from national institutional differences – differences in participants’ core beliefs, values, norms and legal, political and economic regulative systems. How do institutional differences impact firm success rates? Can these costs be quantified, measured, modeled and predicted? Are these...

Background: One of the most important issues in the empowerment and development of managers is to pay attention to organizational commitment and its effect on organizational commitment and productivity in organization managers. Therefore, this research compares the effectiveness of organizational commitment training on the productivity and organizational commitment of managers and project manag...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that development of competencies needed to be effective managers and leaders requires program design and teaching methods focused on learning. This is the introductory essay to this special issue of JMD. Design/methodology/approach – Competencies are defined and an overview is provided for the eight papers that will follow with original research on...

This study develops a competency maturity model to describe the skills of an data analyst that positively influence data warehouse usage and insight generation in today’s data warehouse environment. Exploratory case studies were used to identify critical competencies and develop new measures of data warehouse usage and success. Grounded in Triandis’ [48] theory of motivation, a research model w...

New graduates are often placed into project management roles, but may face challenges in these roles. This study surveyed managers from Brazilian organizations and gathered information on the environment, practices results of projects where new were In-depth interviews executed with a subset to further collect insights issues surrounding graduates’ performance management. paper examines prepara...

The aim of this study was to ascertain which competencies health information managers (HIMs) working in public hospital positions perceived were important for effective performance. A health information management competency model was developed based on the Boyatzis (1982) managerial competency model and modified to take into account previous health information management competency documents a...

The Competencies of High School Principals in District Four of Mashhad H. Ekrami, M.A. V. Hoshyar, Ph.D. The present study was conducted to identify the competencies of high school principals, propose a competency model, and validate the model. The research was carried out in district four of Mashhad in 2015 and examined two questions: 1.What are the dimensions and components o...