This study investigated the relationship between main dimensions in the strategy-making process, environmental complexity, and performance in pharmaceutical companies of Iran. Results argue that pharmaceutical companies like other industries place differing emphasis on strategy-making and employ different modes of strategy-making. It offers a typology of different modes of strategy-making that ...

Numerous evidences suggested that the hepatitis B virus (HBV) was recognized as an important factor in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Dickkopf-1 (DKK1) recently was reported to be involved in the progress of HCC. HBV may regulate DKK1 expression in hematoma carcinogenesis. Here, we demonstrated that HBV could regulate DKK1 promoter activity which resulted in upregulation of ...

Decision making is a key activity for management in any organization. Several decision-making techniques are used to facilitate this process, including multi-criteria decision-making, especially when the decision involves multiple stakeholders and criteria. These methods, which evaluate each alternative according set of criteria, usually subjective nature. However, even though they subjective, ...

regarding the importance of entrepreneurial decision making process and due to the insufficiency of pervious research in considering qualitative aspects of the issue, this study aims to conceptualize entrepreneurial decision making process in small & medium size enterprises. for this purpose, the qualitative case study method was applied among iranian prominent entrepreneurs in the year of 2009...

Heart rhythm disorders, including bradyarrhythmias, atrial fibrillation (AF), and ventricular arrhythmias, become increasingly common with aging and represent important causes of morbidity and mortality among older adults. Older adults are particularly predisposed to these conditions due to the high prevalence of cardiovascular disease in conjunction with age-related changes that occur in the h...

the acceptance of the right project which leads to the realization of the set objectives is one of the most important issues in project-oriented companies. therefore, corporate managers prefer to work on those projects which ensures the achievement of goals such as increasing financial profits or being the top brands in their rivals market. the present  research aimed at introducing  a systemat...