This paper proposes a specific model of business intelligence in relation with SMEs practices, culture and competitive environment. This model is based on the mobilization of corporate tacit knowledge and informal information, aiming at interpreting anticipatory environmental information and assist strategic decision making. An empirical survey assessing the existing business intelligence pract...

Development of downstream operations in the Iran's petroleum industry has always been considered as a necessity in to create more value-added. One of ways to accomplish the misson, especially in the current situation, is exploiting the capacity of petroleum startups. Considering that these companies need to be valued for financing, and since the traditional valuation methods do not provide effi...

the underground economy has long been of interest to economists and has devoted extensive studies to itself in economic literature. through fuzzy logic approach in present research, we estimated the size of underground economy of iran over the period of 1978-2010. for this purpose and according to theoretical bases and previous studies, variables such as gdp per capita, ratio of direct taxes to...

During the past two decades, both business managers and academic researchers have shown considerable interest in understanding how information systems (IS) lead to competitive advantages in a firm. The present study builds on this interest to examine the nature of IS competence and delineate the process by which IS competence lead to sustainable competitive advantages. Conceptually, IS competen...

Nowadays organizations are exposed to frequent changes in business environment requiring continuous alignment of business processes on business strategies. This agility requires methods promoted in enterprise engineering approaches. Risk consideration in enterprise engineering is getting important since the business environment is becoming more and more competitive and unpredictable. Business p...

Today’s volatile, competitive business environment demands flexible software systems that could fit changing business requirements. Therefore business rules are of great importance in the development of software systems. The Object Constraint Language (OCL) as part of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) provides the possibility to express business rules in a conceptual model unambiguously. In t...

Today's competitive world has led managers to shift from traditional management to scientific management. Supply chain management is one of key issues in industries because, considering a high number of competitors in today's competitive world, competition has been extended from company level to the level of competition on their supply chain. For any organization seeking to achieve its goals in...