Assurance schemes (certifications and labels) are widespread in the agri-food sector. This paper reviews landscape of existing schemes, evidence on whether labels change consumer behaviour, assurance achieve positive farm. The impact shopping behaviours appears limited: even for well-established market shares remain low, as factors such taste, health, or price appear to dominate decisions. Rega...

promoting productivity is one of the goals of usinginformation technology in organizations. the purpose of this research isexamining the impact of it on organizational productivity andrecognizing its mechanisms based on process-oriented approach. for thisend, by reviewing the literature of the subject a number of impacts of iton organizational processes were identified. then, through interviews...

in this article, we have used 36 electricity distribution companies of iran and by using input-oriented dea, we analysis the companies technical efficiency with respect to group frontier and metafrontier following restructuring, then we investigate the factors affecting efficiency. the companies decomposed to two groups in terms of high and low circuit density. for discussing the impact of stru...

the link between international conflict and economy linkage is one of the focal subjects in international political economy (ipe). the aim of this article is to scrutinise the impact of the economic factor on managing indo-pakistan conflict based on ipe approaches. so, the article organizes as follows: first, it is tried to provide a brief coherent theoretical framework concentrated on conflict...

Traditional sequential pattern mining deals with positive correlation between sequential patterns only, without considering negative relationship between them. In this paper, we present a notion of impact-oriented negative sequential rules, in which the left side is a positive sequential pattern or its negation, and the right side is a predefined outcome or its negation. Impact-oriented negativ...

knowledge management strategy is mentioned as one of the most important success factors for implementing knowledge management. the km strategy selection is a complex decision that requires consideration of several factors. for evaluation and selection of an appropriate knowledge management strategy in organizations, many factors must be considered. the identified factors and their impact on kno...

in recent years, the implementation of integrated information systems in the iranian public sector has significantly increased. this is of more importance in holdings and multi-branch organizations. considering the fact that the cost, time-span and quality of implementation of these systems, has a dramatic impact on public sector effectiveness, therefore, identification and classification of fa...