Proposing a Model to Evaluate Communication Technologies in Mobile Communication Industry

In recent decades، since increasing the competition between organizations for developing products and services، creating and developing modern technologies has been strongly growing. In such circumstances، the main challenge of organizations is development or acquisition of the right technology in respect of the organizational goals. Thus، this study intends to present a scale for evaluating communication technologies in mobile communication industry which is provided by a mixed research. The initial model is attained through a comprehensive technology literature review and some semi-structured interviews with technology top managers. Then، using exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis، validity of the proposed model and scale is assessed. Findings show that the communication technologies evaluation have correlations with technical capability، technology knowledge، market، strategic and financial criteria and the technology knowledge is the most important dimension and followed by strategic criteria and market.