the purpose of this research is to evaluate the effectiveness of implementation quality management system (iso 9001:2000) in gas processing plants of national iranian gas company using balanced scorecard approach. more specifically, we chose the balanced scorecard framework to examine five well-known gas processing plants in national iranian gas company from four different perspectives in order...

ignificant advances in the identification and pplication of accommodations and supports have nabled people with various disabilities to succeed n the workplace. Such advances include an array of echnologies and methodologies, including, but not imited to, assistive devices, alternative and ugmentative communication strategies, rchitectural modifications, telecommuting, retructured job assignmen...

In 1987, a group infection of hepatitis in patients receiving a contaminated fibrinogen product was first reported to the Japanese regulatory agency. Eventually, this serious drug incident involved more than 10,000 cases of infection. In response, the Government of Japan established a responding inspection committee in 2008 to make recommendations for the restructuring of drug regulatory admini...

This paper contributes to the understanding of the importance of dynamic firm capabilities for corporate performance in isolating the effect of core competences on the performance of companies. It discusses and tests the assumed relation between core competences and economic performance, including the effect of the external appropriation of these competences through mergers and acquisitions as ...

Every single company or institution wants to utilize its resources in the most efficient way. In order to do so they have to be have good structure. The new way to analyze company structure by utilizing existing within company natural social network and example of its usage on Enron company are presented in this paper.

Cross-company defect prediction (CCDP) is a practical way that trains a prediction model by exploiting one or multiple projects of a source company and then applies the model to target company. Unfortunately, larger irrelevant crosscompany (CC) data usually makes it difficult to build a crosscompany defect prediction model with high performance. To address such issues, this paper proposes a dat...