Business sustainability in all dimensions of economic, governance, social, ethical, and environmental (EGSEE) performance is gaining acceptance as many global stock exchanges either encourage or require their listed companies to issue sustainability reports and investors worldwide demand sustainability performance information. More than 8, 000 companies worldwide are disclosing various EGSEE di...

abstract background: kangaroo mother care (kmc) is the most implementation intervention in caring of the infants, as in this method, both the mothers and infants are cared. the world health organization recommends implementation of kmc for all infants. however, there are some barriers in the way of its application. the purpose of this study was evaluation of the practical application of kmc and...

abstract production is a process by which a productive activity will require some conditions (before and after the start of the production). one of the most important pre-required factors for start up a production unit is suitable business environment. one of the most important factors that must be provided after the start of production -during the production process and the time to market and ...

the current study examines the impact of trade openness and business environment on foreign direct investment among 23 countries in southwest asia over the period 2004 to 2012. the research approach is econometric and the generalized regression of panel data was used to test the effect of the variables of interest. the results show that trade openness directly (coefficient of 0.002, p-value = 0...

abstract background: to respond efficiently to the increasing and new needs of people in health issues, it is necessary for nurses to develop their knowledge from hospital to society and to be equipped to play entrepreneur role in different levels of care. the present study was conducted to describe iranian entrepreneur nurses’ perceived barriers to entrepreneurship, in order to identify the ex...

currently, one of the most important challenges to smes is financing as their managers are faced with many problems in this area. in this study the barriers to smes financing were identified by using q methodology which is a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. after literature review and conduct of interviews with 12 executive managers of smes, 64 barriers were identified to th...

With the progress of information-oriented trade and commerce many companies have recognized that the trade on and with the existing and emerging communication technologies is an essential element for the maintenance of the advantage of competition. Significant business reengineering efforts are underway to taming the complexity of both business processes and computer information systems. The in...