the corporate entrepreneurship (ce) of firms and enterprises is the subject of current research in the fields of management and business. however, analyses on this subject in agricultural firms are lacking. the purpose of this research was to study the relationships between corporate entrepreneurship and firm performance in agricultural small and medium-sized enterprises (asmes) in iran. specif...

this study aims to investigate the role of organizational identity and calling orientation in predicting the affective commitment. since, the effect of both organizational identity and calling orientation on organizational attitudes have been examined in other research works, the present study comes to study the impact of these construct on affective commitment as an organizational approach. fo...

in clinical nursing education is providing an orientation program that meets the needs of critical care nurses with various backgrounds and levels of experience within a relevant and stimulating format. Since the 1990s, a major shift has occurred within the culture of intensive care units (ICUs) to employ, orient, and mentor new graduate nurses. Formerly, after graduation, the standard progress...

the main goal followed throughout this research was an identification of the role of environmental variables in entrepreneurial orientation (eo) dimensions, implemented as a correlational research, and by an application of causal model. statistical sample of the study consisted of 1800 cooperative memberships for the selection of which one out of each six regional groups of provinces (as cluste...

Formal development methods can be divided into property oriented and model oriented approaches. The Vienna Development Method (VDM) is model oriented in the sense that systems are modelled by means of predeened mathematical objects like sets, sequences and nite mappings. However, property oriented speciication techniques claim to have several advantages, such as to result in more abstract syste...

Introduction: Several factors play a role in academic achievement,individual’s excellence and capability to do actions and tasks thatthe learner is in charge of in learning areas. The main goal of thisstudy was to present academic achievement causal model basedon the dimensions of goal orientation and learning approachesamong the students of Medical Science and Dentistry courses inGuilan Univer...

AbstractDeveloping self-regulated learners has been the life-long ambition of different stakeholders in education. This study was set out to find the relationships between self-regulated strategies as defined by time and resource management, cognitive and metacognitive strategies, achievement goals classified as mastery, performance-approach and performance-avoidance, and the listening ac...

To help with the prediction of school achievement through a mathematical model incorporating goal orientation, course perception, and academic self-regulation, a sample of 380 9th graders in Tabriz was selected using the cluster sampling method. Instruments used to measure these constructs were translated ones. Data analyses showed that goal orientation and course perception have a direct impac...