A strategy for performance enhancement of Iranian knowledge-based companies

The early models of economic growth were mostly based on hardware factors of production such as physical capital, but in the new models of growth, other soft factors such as capital of knowledge are located in front of leading organizations. Knowledge-based companies consider knowledge and technology as an integral part of their core assets and they use the process of creating, distributing and applying knowledge to advance their business This research is a mixed method and includes both qualitative and quantitative approaches. In the qualitative part of the research, while studying the documents, theoretical literature review, conducting library studies and interviewing experts and owners of knowledge-based companies in Iran, has been used from capabilities of MAXQDA 2020 software and then grounded theory (GT) method to encode the interviews is designed and presented special model Market orientation for such companies. In quantitative part, the capability of SPSS software to analyze descriptive statistics and Smart PLS3 software has been used for analyze inferential data, test of research hypotheses, and determine the validity and fitness of the conceptual model.