opening the market early for consumers and for funding the expensive lawsuit. Yet Cobalt, which had agreed to delay consumer access to the generic brand by abandoning its effort to knock out what proved to be a patent that never should have been issued in the first place, was able to “double-dip.” Cobalt was able to keep the money it was paid by the brand-name drug company to abandon the patent...

his study aimed to investigate factors affecting the revenue share of Iranian tomato paste exporting companies. Flexible estimation method was used on a two-dimensional panel data set including 224 observations from 14 tomato paste manufacturing and exporting companies and 16 importing countries during 2005-12. Results showed that value added per employee in manufacturing or exporting companies...

The influence of company reputation or what is often referred to as corporate reputation on branding strategy and producing intangible asset for different industries has been researched in western countries, but there is a gap for the generalizability of findings to countries out of the United State and Europe. To establish the western researcher's external validity of theories in other countri...

For winning in global competition, companies need to recognition and monitoring of customer's behavior to forecast their behavior and desires earlier than competitors. This research tries to recognize the attributes which lead to customer churn. For this, behavior of 3150 subscribers of an Iranian mobile operator, has observed during one year and trends of them has analyzed by a customized LLNF...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate empirically the existence of interindustry differences in the capital structure and product market competition of corporations listed in Tehran Stock Exchange. We study an balanced panel dataset of 603 firm-year observations in 8 industries from 2001 to 2009. The technique used for this is one way analysis of variance. Employing this parametric method...

As global competition intensifies, research and development (R & D) organizations need to enhance their strategic management in order to become goal-directed communities for innovation and allocate their resources consistent with their overall R & D strategy. The world pharmaceutical market has undergone fast, unprecedented, tremendous and complex changes in the last several years. The pharmace...

Article history: Received 16 March 2009 Received in revised form 13 January 2010 Accepted 14 January 2010 Available online xxxx

Introduction Among organizational resources, human resources are known as one of the most important assets of any organization. Managers should develop effective strategies to achieve competitive advantages through employees. These advantages will be reached when employees try their best to achieve organizational objectives. There are some factors influence employees attempts in organizations. ...

One of the primary concerns on target setting the electricity distribution companies is the uncertainty on input/output data. In this paper, an interactive robust data envelopment analysis (IRDEA) model is proposed to determine the input and output target values of electricity distribution companies with considering the existence perturbation in data. Target setting is implemented with the unce...