The present study is dealing with presenting a model for evaluating the effectiveness of short and medium-term training courses at Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences. a combined research method (quantitative, qualitative) was conducted. The statistical population consists of specialists and university administrators and staff of the Medical Sciences Organization in Mazandaran Province.  ...

Virtual teams, enabled by information technology, represent a new organizational form that has the potential to change the workplace and provide organizations with increased levels of flexibility and responsiveness. A gap exists in the current information systems literature. Previous studies seem to implicitly assume that virtual teams will be self-directed—i.e., that managerial control mechani...

Globalization is necessitating the development of managerial skills crucial to achieving success in a turbulent world. Educational institutions are now beginning to respond to this imperative with varying degrees of success. This article assesses the challenges posed by the talk of globalization for French management education. We analyse the strategies adopted by the French Grandes Ecoles de C...

We develop a dynamic model of firm in which cash management is partially delegated to self-interested manager. Shareholders trade off the cost dismissing manager with managerial discretion over use liquid funds. An improvement corporate governance quality may have positive or negative effect on levels and values balances, depending source improvement. While reduction entrenchment results lower ...

City Ontology plays an important role in smart city management for data integration, reasoning decision support etc. With these managerial domain knowledge scattered among a large number of experts, researchers face a huge challenge constructing a complete ontology for city management. This paper presents a simple yet efficient method for non-computer science experts to construct an ontology. W...