فصلنامه علوم مدیریت ایران
پیاپی 41 (بهار 1395)

Intellectual capital management is a new topic that has theoretically been introduced in recent years on a global scale. This capital is now considered as an invaluable resource and a key for measuring governments growth and development. This paper is aimed to compare Iran’s intellectual capital of the past 15 years with other countries of the region. It is argued that the analysis would shade some light on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s vision of 1404. For this purpose, we first used the Lin & Edvinson’s model (2011) and adjusted it in order to cope with the limitations of the data. A total of 24 indicators in four dimensions of human capital, process capital, market Capital and renewal capital were used in this analysis. Since the financial capital is a tangible assets of a country, we discard it from this assessment. In this research, data on intellectual capital indicators, which had been produced between 2001 and 2015 by World Bank and other international sources, was collected and analysed. The results of this analysis, indicate were does Iran’s intellectual capital locate, compared to other countries of the region.. The results also show that there is a significant positive relationship between intellectual capital and financial capital. The upshot of this study can be used by policy makers who are in position of designing plans to upgrade Iran's status in the region.

In this study we examine the relation between modes of innovation and human resource characteristics in knowledge- based firms that are located at Tehran University and Pardis Parks of Technology. We first surveyed the characteristics of human capital in the knowledge-based firms and found that there are four modes of innovation; Science-based, IT-oriented, Market- oriented, and Cost-oriented process innovations. The purpose of this study was to answer the question: Given that different modes of innovation in these firms require different human capital characteristics, do these firms employ human capital that correspond to their modes of innovations? The results of study show that human capital characteristic of the firms do not match significantly to their modes of innovation. We compared our results with studies conducted in European countries and found out there are consistency between human resource characteristics and modes of innovation in some of these countries. In addition, our results show that firms with market-based mode of innovation, have the highest rate of consistency in their human resource and mode of innovation strategies.

Brand equity provides marginal utility of a product that creates by the brand. One main reason for the importance of brand equity, is its strategic role in gaining competitive advantage at the market. The purpose of this study is a comparison of the value for sport’s brands of Nike, Adidas and Puma,based on customer preference. Data was collected in order to developing appropriate marketing strategies to be used for enhanceing brand equity. A sample survey was conducted among 384 customers of each sport brands of Nike, Adidas and Puma in city of Rasht. We used the statistical analysis software of structural equations modeling ‘LISREL 8.5’ to test the hypothesis. The results showed a positive and significant effect of brand association, brand awareness, brand loyalty and brand image, on brand equity of Nike,Adidas and Puma.The results also showed that brand loyalty for Nike and Adidas and brand image for Puma had the highest impact on brand equity

Since Hawthorne studies, motivation in organizations has been one of the main concerns of organizational behavior scholars. However, the question that has not been resolved yet is: whether motivation processes in public and private sectors are different? If the answer is yes, what is the nature of motivation in public sector and what are the factors that influence public sector motivation (PSM)? Given that, the work conditions of a large number of public sector employees require them to serve the public, PSM as a subfield of organizational behavior has attracted the attention of many researchers in recent years. This research is aimed to examine the effect of job characteristics on public employees motivation in view of employees well being as mediating variable. The research population is the employees of Central Laboratory of Imam Khomeini Hospital (N=200). A sample survey was conducted using a standard questionnaire that was distributed among 133 employees. The results show that job characteristics directly has positive effect on the laboratory employees and indirectly through the mediating variable of employee well-being.

In the last two decades, organizational researchers studying social interactions have paid much attention to the negative aspects of intimate interrelationship of employees at workplace. One of the employee interpersonal behavior at workplace is social undermining that has negative and costly consequences for organizations and society at large. This paper is aimed to further elaborate the concept of social undermining by applying a descriptive study in the State Welfare Organization. It is presumed that social undermining in the Welfare Organization will lead to behaviors that weaken organizational capacity and is a hindrance to the organization’s social capital. The results of a survey that was conducted between 184 of managers and employees of the State Welfare Organization show that there are positive relationship between individual, group, organizational and environmental factors with social undermining behaviors.

The purpose of this paper is to study the mediating role of psychological empowerment and quality of working life on organizational citizenship behavior in media organization of Donyaye Eqtesad. The research population includes 172 employees of Tehran’s daily paper of Donyaye Eqtesad who were selected by simple random sampling method. Four standardized questionnaires were used to collect data: nahapiet and ghoshal social capital, spreitzer psychological empowerment, netemeyer organizational citizenship behavior and walton quality of work life. Findings from structural equation modeling (SEM) method showed that social capital through the mediating role of psychological empowerment and quality of working life has indirectly affect organizational citizenship behavior in this organization.