undobtedly, the information and communication technology (ict) has affected the country’s economic and social interactions. the networked readiness index (nri) comprising four subindexes that measure the enviroment for ict’s, the readiness of a society to use ict’s, the actual usage of all main stakholders (individual, business and government), and finally, the impacts that ict’s generate in th...

every organization requires employees who can readily accept changes to carry out their day to day business transactions and to accommodate with those changes emerging from the environment. the purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of readiness for change on organizational change among the employees of the commercial banks. data were collected from 350 employees serving in the priv...

Export and the readiness to export constitute the first step of international marketing, which are affected by both internal and external factors of firms. One of the most important internal  factors is the presence of skilled personnel. The purpose of this study was to define the relationship between staff qualification and encouragment with the readiness level of Iranian pharmacuetical firms ...

The pervasiveness of the Internet, increased number of devices and the dissemination of ICT have played a big role in the increase in number of security incidents and adversaries in the cloud. However, there are limited proactive strategies that can enable mitigation of these incidents given the distributed nature of cloud resources. Therefore, the primary aim of the work described in this prop...

The adoption of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the education sector in emerging markets holds much promise, but should be accompanied by a wellinformed decision to ensure that the potential value is realized. The research conducted provides insight into the pragmatic factors driving the adoption of FOSS in the education environment, as well as those aspects inhibiting adoption. This st...

e-Readiness assessments, for countries and organizations, are becoming of increasing importance, as they specify the current states from which planning for ICT “information and communication technology” toward supporting sustainable development, should start. This paper is concerned with providing an approach, based on the STOPE “strategy, technology, organization, people, and environment” fram...

Export and the readiness to export constitute the first step of international marketing, which are affected by both internal and external factors of firms. One of the most important internal  factors is the presence of skilled personnel. The purpose of this study was to define the relationship between staff qualification and encouragment with the readiness level of Iranian pharmacuetical firms ...

theoretically speaking, ict is a new concept in enterprise architecture which can be studied in hrm and hr architecture issues. due to contextual variables carrying diverse variation and importance levels, designing an e-readiness framework of hr architecture is a complex issue. therefore, this idea is considered in iranian oil and gas industry to be piloted. framework of ict conceptual model d...