Globalization has increased competition level among various industries and firms. Therefore any firm should inevitably improve its competition power in order to survive in global economy. Hence different firms try to increase the flexibility of their labor market to decrease their costs and become more flexible in the face of global market situations this, in turn, makes them more competitive. ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the prediction of academic self-efficacy based on self-regulated learning strategies, metacognition strategies and goal-progress orientation in students of Islamic Azad University branch Ahvaz. This research is correlational. For this purpose, the community of students, 400 people (180 boys and 180 girls) was selected based on stratified random samplin...

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

abstract this study aimed at investigating the effect of bilingual teaching of cognate words (persian-english) on iranian upper intermediate efl learners’ knowledge of lexical development. for this purpose,100 subjects participated in this study out of which 40 learners were selected for this study and they were assigned into two groups, control and experimental. cross-language cognates (wor...

according to webster and wind (1972) and anderson et al (1987), “organizational buying is a complex process and involves many people from different functional areas, multiple goals and potentially conflicting decision criteria. moreover, the customers of today are also more knowledgeable and selective when making their purchasing decisions. since a key to organizational survival is the retentio...

Managers need to specially regard marketing and its modern approaches in order to succeed in today competitive environment. Market orientation is one of the new approaches of marketing in which customer is supposed to be center and ultimate goal of business so provides premier performance via innovative mechanisms. So this survey aims to study influence of market orientation on market function ...