dematel method

Creative and cultural industries have a great capacity for transferring the cultural concepts of nations so the export of these products is important because of their cultural influence apart from the economic benefits. To help the growth of the cultural export we should discover the barriers and fix them. The purpose of this research is to diagnose these barriers and a mixed method is used to achieve it. In the qualitative part the theme analysis is used to discover the 168 primary codes that were categorized into 41 organizer codes and finally categorized into 10 comprehensive codes. In the quantitative part the questionnaire is designed and 10 experts were selected based on Judgmental sampling method the final codes were prioritized using dematel method. The result of analyzing the questionnaires shows that not doing the governmental duties in cultural industries has the highest impact between the barriers and not doing the governmental duties, the structural and institutional challenges of the creative firms and not paying attention to the institutional factors are the causal barriers. Using the qualitative-quantitative method in this research has made a deep understanding of the export barriers in this field.

A light triad is an alternative structure to the dark triad, which consists of Kantianism, humanism, and faith in humanity. Public organizations play a significant role in Iran because of their strong influence on the lives of the Iranian nation and this structure can positively impact public organizations.  As a result, the manifestation of the light triad personality by managers and key people in Iran’s public organizations is important. This study aims to add to the body of knowledge in this field by investigating the cause and effect of manifesting consequences of the Light Triad personality of managers in Iranian public organizations.
This study uses a mixed methodology combining qualitative and quantitative research. It employs a deductive-inductive logical approach, as well. Professors and middle and senior managers from Iranian public organizations participated in the qualitative phase of the current study. Twenty individuals were sampled using the snowball technique and the purposive sampling method to achieve the research objective. Participants in the quantitative phase of the research included middle and senior managers from government agencies, and 42 managers from this field participated in this study, using stratified random sampling. Face-to-face interviews with open questions were conducted during the qualitative phase. Following that, the light triad of managers’ personalities in public organizations was coded, and the consequences were identified. The codes obtained from the interviews were provided to the interviewees to verify the accuracy of coding and concept extraction.
Based on the data gathered from semi-structured interviews, this study identified 14 consequences of light triad manifestations of the personality of public organization managers. The cause and effect of the Light Triad personality of managers were investigated using the DEMATEL method. The DEMATEL method analyzes causal relationships between complex and multiple factors to build a structural model. To solve complex problems, a group of experts outlined the cause-and-effect relationships between various factors. This study used the DEMATEL method to evaluate the quantitative data to obtain comprehensive and accurate information. According to the DEMATEL analysis, the top influencing factors were a positive mental image, leader-follower exchanges, employee retention, and integration. Furthermore, the top factors affected by other outcomes were organization development and excellence, organizational satisfaction and trust, effective communication, and benevolent orientation.
The Light Triad personality of managers has beneficial effects on employees' organizational life. However, this factor has been overlooked by management and organizational researchers since its introduction. Managers, researchers, and human resource practitioners must be aware of this new personality structure to enrich and operationalize the research literature in organizational settings.

In recent years the attitude toward interdisciplinary fields is accelerated. But there is q need to focus on the obstacles ahead these studies and species. The aim of this study is evaluation of the challenges and obstacles that are facing with the interdisciplinary studies. In this study the effects and ranking of factors is studied with use of gray DEMATEL method as a systematic method. Nine classes gathered as the basic factors. besides, a systematic model presented about the factors action by an Effecting and effected factors. In the current paper it is shown that organizational, social-cultural and scientific and academic factors have the greatest impact on the system of challenges. Finally, in the conclusions section, there are some recommendations to reduce the impact the challenges which presented that showed policy making and more regard is very vital in this area.

One of the most serious and practical discussions in most planning and management systems is choosing the right option. Economic, communication, industrial, social systems and Information processing methods, on the one hand, and subtle decision-making conditions, high ambiguities, and environmental complexities, on the other hand, have increased the need for this process, given the intense competition in the automotive industry. Therefore, leveling the factors affecting the quality of car parts for each car manufacturer is a big challenge considering the different goals and criteria that exist for that company. The aim of this research is to level the factors affecting the quality of mechanical parts of the car (engine) with a multi-criteria decision-making approach (MCDM ) using DEMATEL technique for the parts manufacturing company. In this study, using reference books and experts' opinions, the factors affecting the quality of automotive mechanical parts are identified and then using the Delphi method, the screened factors and the most important factors are then selected by DEMATEL method. These factors have been reviewed and finally leveled.

Organizational ethics contains moral standards that organizations of these days need to carry out their business well. On the other hand, considering the fact that Nahj al-Balaghah is full of moral instructions, it is possible to explain the themes of organizational ethics excellence through this important source. This is a mixed research. In the qualitative part, the themes of organizational ethics excellence were extracted from Nahj al-Balaghah through theme analysis. Using theme analysis, 231 basic themes, 67 sub-themes, 8 main themes and 4 general themes were extracted. Lincoln and Juba's trust value was used to measure the reliability. Reliability was confirmed by agreement coefficient between the two identifiers. The relative content validity coefficient (CVR) and content validity index (CVI) were used for confirming the validity. Using Dematel method in a quantitative part of the research, the one-way and two-way relationships and the general themes of organizational ethics excellence were examined. Attention to ethical relation and precise selection of individuals composed the causal elements among the four general themes extracted. Furthermore, paying attention to moral communication and consideration of creating moral conditions and environment presented the most interaction with other themes.

The purpose of this study was to develop an agent based model that could simulate the steel supply chain and estimate its production and consumption, taking into account the key factors of the steel industry. The approach of the present study is mixed (quantitative and qualitative). In the first part of the research (qualitative), the agents of the steel chain consumption model were obtained through interviews with experts using thematic analysis method. In the second part of the research (quantitative), a questionnaire was used to survey the causal relationships of the factors extracted from the interviews and the thematic analysis method, and then the relationship model was tested by the DEMATEL method. Finally, by using AnyLogic software and coding in Java language, a model of steel supply chain and its consumption was designed throughan agent-based  approach, and according to the opinion of steel industry experts, the model explanation process was also approved. The combination of agents identified in this study is consistent with the influence of factors on production, consumption, import and export of the steel chain in the proposed structural model.

Todays, fast-changing environment, companies are required to acquire and update knowledge in order to gain competitive advantage. Knowledge enables organizations to anticipate the nature and commercial potential of changes. the ability to acquire, organize and disseminate knowledge helps organizations to improve decision making, cost effectiveness, customer satisfaction and cost control. therefore, successful companies in the world have focused on organizational knowledge management as a necessary requirement and a priority agenda for being a great leader in competitiveness arena. knowledge management (KM) can be defined as a strategic and systematic approach to value what the organization knows. on the other hand, the most important and valuable asset of an organization is human resource, and the role of skilled and efficient human resources in achieving organizational goals is obvious and indisputable. accordingly, human resource empowerment can prepare and success organizations in the face of today’s fast-changing environment. the use of KM in organizations can affect the psychological empowerment of employees.

Knowledge Management

KM is defined as a structured process including goals, identification, acquisition, development, dissemination, application, measuring and evaluation of organizational knowledge. managers try to extract accumulated knowledge in the minds of organizational members through the knowledge management, and share it among all people. in this case, the knowledge stored in the system becomes a permanent usable resource and provides a competitive advantage for the organization.

Psychological empowerment

Psychological empowerment refers to a set of mental states which is needed to perform tasks and control actions, and under these conditions, the experts focus mainly is on the methods of management and control of employees at different levels. on the other hand, the psychological dimension relies on employee experiences in the workplace. according to the psychological dimension, empowerment refers to employee's individual beliefs towards organizational roles.

This study is considered as a descriptive-survey research in terms of data collection. Research variables include: knowledge management components (knowledge creation, capture, refinement, dissemination, application) and psychological empowerment of employees. The population of the study includes the experts of Iranian Central Oil fields company. applying theoretical saturation method 15 experts asked to answer the questions. dematel questionnaire has been used for gathering the information.

The order of importance of knowledge management components in terms of interaction with other components is as follows: knowledge application, knowledge creation, knowledge dissemination, knowledge refinement, knowledge capture and empowerment. on the other hand, the independent components include empowerment, knowledge application and knowledge capture and knowledge dissemination. dependent components also include knowledge creation and knowledge refinement. Therefore, it should be focused on independent variables, including empowerment, knowledge application, knowledge capture and knowledge dissemination to improve the variables of knowledge creation and knowledge refinement. Among the components of KM, the component of knowledge application has a significant impact on the other three components, including, knowledge creation, knowledge refinement, and knowledge dissemination. also, knowledge creation has a significant impact on knowledge dissemination, knowledge application and knowledge refinement. the component of knowledge capture has impact on knowledge dissemination and knowledge refinement. the component of knowledge refinement is the most dependent component and in the level of 70% is affected by knowledge creation, knowledge application, knowledge capture, and knowledge dissemination. In this regard, it is clear that knowledge refinement is meaningless without knowledge creation in the organization. While comparing the cause and effect intensity of the psychological empowerment variable with KM components, because none of the affected values of empowerment from components of KM is in the upper limit domain, generally it can be suggested that empowerment is an effective variable, rather than being affected. given what was said, it can be concluded that empowerment can strengthen KM. also, it can be concluded that among the components of KM, the component of knowledge dissemination has the most constructive interaction with other components, because this component is affected by three components of knowledge creation, knowledge application and knowledge capture and it affects the component of knowledge refinement.

CONCLUSIONS & SUGGESTIONS

 Encouraging and providing the necessary rewards to employees who contribute to the KM process should be prioritized and given special attention. By introducing top employees in the field of producing applied knowledge and appreciating them at different time intervals, human resources managers can encourage other employees to collaborate in the KM process.  to improve the component of knowledge capture, the template of the managers themselves as an important part of the culturalize as well as the encouragement of successful people in the field of knowledge capture can be considered. In fact, the creation and display of a suitable behavior pattern, and the differentiation and encouragement of individuals having behavior consistent with the objectives of KM and organization, is crucial in the repetition and improvement of the components of KM, and specially knowledge capture. necessary training should be given to supervisors to enable them give adequate information to their subordinates to participate in decision making, support new and appropriate ideas and rely on the outcomes of work, as many subordinate decisions and ideas may be preferred to their opinions. Also, low-level employees should be trained to take the appropriate decisions in critical situations with full confidence in their work and by provoking a sense of ability.

Environment is coalition of organizations that moves towards their goals by uncertain process of bargaining and reduce related demands. Because the power is one of the most important resources of every organization in society that must be effectively managed like any other resources. In addition, Strategic thinking is not only includes a system of strategies to achieve competitive advantage and value creation, but rather should be able to present the legitimacy of the strategy to justify the rightfulness of the organization's strategy through a process of political bargaining.
This paper considers the components of legitimacy of the strategy. In the first step by studying models and approaches to strategic thinking and theories of power, the nine component of legitimacy strategies were identified and then with Delphi method and expert opinion, the six of component in three stages were selected.
In the second step, the DEMATEL method to analyze and rank the cause and effect is used. Finally, according to analysis the result of the DEMATEL method, three components are known as Causality components: power supplies, incentive structure and Stakeholder expectations and game rules. The power, infiltration mechanism and engagement of stakeholders are shown as the factors of effected components.

Innovation is one of the key factors for start-ups success. According to existing literature on venture capital, venture capital funds and accelerators increase innovation level of firms in which they invest. The main goal of the research is to prioritize factors affecting on innovation of target firms. The research is applied in terms of objective and is descriptive-survey in terms of data gathering. Twelve extracted factors were prioritized by paired-comparison questionnaire of DEMATEL method. The Questionnaire filled out by 12 experts in VCs, accelerators’ advisors and coaches and experts of Iran’s VC society. The experts have been chosen by purposive sampling method. Finally, providing valuable information about related industry, cooperation and connection with players of related industry, informing about the existing threats and opportunities, are respectively labelled as the most important factors.

This study aims to identify and analyze the key factors influencing strategic thinking as a core competency in organization. In this research, firstly based on literature review, 23 key factors (competencies) of strategic thinking were determined, then a questionnaire distributed to professors and experts in relevant field and their views on the key factors or adding other key factors, have questioned which ultimately 8 key factor were identified. After identifying final key factors, their effects and interrelationships questioned form professors and experts through another questionnaire. At the end, using an integrated method including Grey system theory and DEMATEL technique, the data analyzing was accomplished. The results show the effectiveness, influence and interaction of key factors and finaly they grouped into cause and effect factors.

The present paper was a descriptive-applied research. The main objective of the study was to investigate the relation of the accounting information system and productivity of service organizations according to Dematel method. The statistical population included 140 employees of the accounting department and financial institutions of Police Service plus 10 in East Azerbaijan province. Using Morgan’s table the sample size was 102 employees. The study was done in the first half of 2016. Integrating the accounting information system with effective factors on productivity and using paire comparisons among them the amount of each accounting information factors considering the productivity factors in the success of the system were ranked. The results showed that data criteria, personnels, procedures and guidelines and the software were in the mid-positive which was related to the causal factors. The factors affecting the productivity were personnels dimension 42%; software 23% and the data, procedures were the last in order respectively.

The current research investigates the Impact and Influence of emotional intelligence’s component on organizational commitment and job satisfaction in Central Iranian Oil Fields Company (I.C.O.F.C). Research type is applied-developing and on the other hand descriptive-survey. The population of research is experts of the Iranian Central Oil Fields Company. The number of experts is selected by using theoretical saturation method and 15 experts are asked to answer the questions. In this research the Dematel questionnaire, modified by the researcher, has been used for gathering the information. Data analyses have been done by using Dematel method. The results have been shown that self-awareness is the most influential factor and the second influential variable is job satisfaction. When it comes to the intensity of the influence of emotional intelligence components, consciousness, self-motivation, social skills, empathy and self-control have been the most influential in order. The most influenced variable is organizational commitment. Between emotional intelligence's components which have influence on other components and variables, self-motivation is the most important factor. It also has an important influence on organizational commitment. In fact, the results of this study suggested that self-motivation is like a stimulant engine. When functioning properly, this engine can accelerate the movement of organizational commitment, empathy, self-control and even the social skills.

Concept of the physical and human capital vulnerabilities during the hazard in metropolitans is one of the most important issues that have been taken into account in much research، especially the passive defense. This study provides a model for zoning the degree of urban vulnerability due to military attack. In the preliminary stage، the framework of the effective indicators of the degree of urban vulnerability against due to attack has been obtained by DEMATEL method then with the help of this، the weight of each indicator obtained with (ANP) process. Considering effective factors، user interface (SSP Modeler) based on sorting of alternatives by similarity to profile in ArcGis software environments designed for the spatial modeling of the vulnerability of Ahvaz due to military attack and the degree of vulnerability of the research case study area in the different zones has been recognized automatically. The results showed that only one percent of the Ahwaz area achieved limited and very low vulnerability، 41 percents have low vulnerability; 56 percents high vulnerability and two percents have been recognized totally vulnerable. Adapting the zones that have very high vulnerability with the effective factors against air and missile attacks in Ahvaz shows the accuracy of the provided model.

The firm''s innovation capability constitute set of enablers which are main driver innovation in today''s business environment. They must constantly check out situation and interaction among innovation enablers and results in order to continuously improve innovation. Present study is proposed a dynamic framework to investigate the relationships between the enablers of innovation capability (leadership، innovation strategy، people، partnerships and resources، and process innovation) as well as expected results (customer، employee، organization and total performance) that are studied in a manufacturing company. Using information from the strengths of influence between five key components of innovation capability، by applying the DEMATEL method، as well as based on the logical assumption that، by improving the enablers، there will be an inevitable innovation results improvement، dynamic model of innovation capability was established. Simulation results of model showed that the tow enablers people and innovation strategy have minor role in the enhancing the maturity level of innovation capabilities. The company''s policy scenarios determined more effort to improve people enabler promoting innovation capability maturity level result in a shorter period of time.

The aim of this paper is to construct a strategy map for a manufacturing company. To do so,based on the four aspects of the Balanced scordcard, key performance indicators(KPI) were selected by a committee of experts. Then, The Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) method was used to determind the type and intensity of relationships between key performance indicators and focus mainly on distinguishing performance indicators into cause indicators and effect indicators. Similarly, the main affected aspect and the main causal aspect are distinguished. The result can be used for other production companies as a guidance, moreover, it affects on development of strategy map based on BSC and offers a combination of these two techniques along with DEMATEL. This combination causes improvement in planning and operaion of related industries.

One of the important issues in project management is project portfolio selection. Issue of project selection and related activities is one of the important activities in most of organizations, especially contract companies and developing project centered companies. Issue of project choosing is a periodical activity for choosing suitable portfolio from suggested projects or organizational in process projects which enforce organizational goals in a desirable manner, without spending additional sources or / and neglecting other limitations.. In project portfolio selection, the most important issue which bring up is that this portfolio should conclude which projects. As much as project portfolio selection be more advisable, fulfilment of organization duties would be more probable. In choosing this combination, distinguishing opportunities, assessing amount of project cooperation with goals and organization structure and expenses, profit analysis and project risks has a great importance. In this research has been used from qualitative and quantitative assimilated approach for project portfolio selection. In a way that at first we use DEMATEL (Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory) method to selection criteria and then with use Data Envelopment Analysis and criteria that selected in previous stage, calculate the efficiency for each project and rank all of them.