export and the readiness to export constitute the first step of international marketing, which are affected by both internal and external factors of firms. one of the most important internal  factors is the presence of skilled personnel. the purpose of this study was to define the relationship between staff qualification and encouragment with the readiness level of iranian pharmacuetical firms ...

the purpose of this paper is to analyze the simultaneous effect of corporate culture and market orientation on the performance of small to medium-sized industrial manufacturing firms. to this end, a cross-sectional survey and variance based structural equation modeling was used for testing the hypotheses. the samples were selected based on a stratified sampling of commodity and specialty indust...

theoretically speaking, ict is a new concept in enterprise architecture which can be studied in hrm and hr architecture issues. due to contextual variables carrying diverse variation and importance levels, designing an e-readiness framework of hr architecture is a complex issue. therefore, this idea is considered in iranian oil and gas industry to be piloted. framework of ict conceptual model d...

BACKGROUND Patient empowerment can enhance the outcomes of care such as metabolic control as well as quality of their life. This study evaluates the Iranian version for development of a valid and reliable diabetes empowerment scale. METHODS Validity and reliability of Iranian version of Diabetes Empowerment Scale (DES-LF) were measured through a cross-sectional study. DES-LF was evaluated thr...

introduction: recently, the accreditation program has been used increasingly by an emphasis on patient safety. in iran, efforts have been made to establish the accreditation program. in 2011, it replaced previous standards of traditional evaluation system. as the impact of accreditation plan need internal self assessment against minimal standards, this study aimed to survey the readiness of sel...