the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between strategic thinking and performance of employees who worked in libraries’ employees of ilam university. research method was descriptive –correlational in which especially structural equation modeling was used. all of libraries’ employees of ilam university (n=200) was made the population of study and via morgan’s table 127 sub...

Management of the trade off of logistic performances has always been a key issue in industry. The trade off results from the contrasting business objectives defined at strategic management level and is part of the subsequent decisions taken at shop floor level. Therein, performance measures influence decisions. These are, in general, operational measures and might be more or less aware of the t...

The strategy literature is replete with studies focusing on such strategic and cultural firm-level factors as entrepreneurship and differentiation. Research indicates that these factors are major determinants of superior firm performance in the long-term. Nonetheless, a majority of works in this area has focused on large-scale, multinational firms. Very little is known about the effects of entr...

Business managers are facing the dynamic environment nowadays, and encountering more and more difficulties in decision-making. In order to formulate suitable strategies, they must consider all aspects of dynamic environments and situations which they meet. Sun Tzu's The Art of War is probably the oldest military book in Chinese and the principles which Sun Tzu advocated are still valuable in ma...

Drawing on the insight from metacognition theory, second language researchers conceptualize strategic knowledge and strategic regulation as the two dimensions of strategic competence in language performance. In this regard, the present study aimed at determining whether strategic knowledge and strategic regulation are related to listening performance. The study also attempted to specify how str...

strategic alliance is a cooperation contract between two or more organizations who want to improve their competitive situation and performance through resource sharing. one of the common types of strategic alliances is the alliance between two organizations working in the same industry. one of those industries which alliances occur most likely is the casting industry. in this regard, this resea...

This study investigates whether discount rate changes serve as an informative signal for investors to enter or exit the stock market. Based on the signal, a market timing strategy is formulated and its performance relative to a passive buy-and-hold strategy is tested with several performance evaluation methods. Empirical evidence derived from data of seven developed countries over more than 29 ...