پژوهشنامه مدیریت اجرایی
سال نهم شماره 18 (پاییز و زمستان 1396)

Corporative entrepreneurship is a process that leads the organizational activities towards creativity, innovation, risk-taking and pioneering role that ultimately create new value. Access to information is necessary for identifying entrepreneurial opportunities. According to the Burt’s structural holes theory, people who joins the nodes in a communication network, achieve exclusive information and can be used them for starting entrepreneurial activities in the organization. This research studies the role of brokerage structural hole in creating the organizational entrepreneurship and measures the moderator role of business culture in this relation. In terms of objective, this study is considered as an empirical one, and the research methodology is descriptive-correlative type. Population included president and sales managers of distributor companies in North Khorasan over 240 people. Among those people, 210 individuals were selected to be studied using Cochran's sample size formula and through random sampling method. Measurement tool in this research was standard questionnaire; structural equation modeling technique (SEM) and SMART PLS 2 software were used for data analysis.The results indicate the structural holes network creates new opportunities for entrepreneurial activities in network business. A person who is in a position of structural holes with the intuition and entrepreneurial alertness can change the existing situation and act an entrepreneurial orientation for creating new value for organization

Project-based organizations are subjected to lose company knowledge due to their nature after the dissolution of project teams; therefore, today the issue of projects knowledge management is one of major challenges in these organizations. In recent years many project-based organizations have added organizational unit named project management office to organizational chart in order to enhance consistency in managing their projects and to archive project knowledge. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the role of the project management office in creation of projects knowledge management infrastructures and study their status. The research used mixed method (quantitate and qualitative) approach. Survey and case study research strategy were applied. The statistical population includes active project-based organizations of oil & gas upstream industries in Iran and finally, the questionnaire was completed in the 47 project management offices in 41 organizations. The results show a very high linear relation between two mentioned variables. The results showed that the main function of the project management office in these organizations was "the establishment of methods and standards for project management" and then "project support". The "organizational culture", "human resources" and "management" have the "medium" and "structure" has the "least" among the infrastructures. In qualitative part, 4 organizations from mentioned organization were selected based on purposive sampling. The results of the qualitative section showed how the functions of the project management office were affected by the knowledge management infrastructure

Globalization, governmental and nongovernmental organizations regulation increase, pressure, and customer's demands regarding to environmental compliance issues has led organizations to apply the necessary measures to green supply chain management in order to improve their environmental and economic performance. This research is aimed at investigation and identification of barriers to implement green supply chain in South Electric Power Generation Company. By reviewing literature and extraction of barriers on green supply chain, eventually 16 Indices as the most significant characteristics of effective barriers of green supply chain were eventually selected. Then, the barriers were prioritized by using Interpretive Ranking Process (IRP). According to the interpretive ranking process, the final barriers to green supply chain performance prioritizing is mainly based on the performance variables which extracted from literature review. So that, seven performance variables eventually finalized. The major upshot of employing IRP is that the neglecting to demonstrate environmental targets was placed in first ranks to implement green concept, which represents explaining the importance of determining the environmental targets for the company. In addition to this, high investment and capital return and weakness of governmental regulations to adopt environmental policy in South Electric Power Generation Company were obtained high priority in this ranking

With globalization and expansion of companies’ activities, supply chain has turned into a series of complex processes that will lead to more vulnerability. Supplier selection is one of the complex and multifaceted actions in supply chain that has the greatest impact on successful performance of a supply chain. The aim of this paper is to specify the effective criteria and also to determine the structural relationships of these criteria in resilient supplier selection. Referring to industry experts, interviewing and providing questionnaires to refine the criteria listed from the extensive literature of this field in the world and using methods determining structural relationships of effective criteria due to the inherent uncertainty and data uncertainty in the environment of this industry are the considerations of the selected method of the study. In the present study Grey DEMATEL technique is employed to determine the causal relationship of influential factors in resilient supplier selection.
Findings: Formulation of a structural model and introduction of instruments such as Grey DEMATEL for analysis and selection of suppliers with respect to resilience paradigm are the findings of this study.
Innovation: In decision-making processes, there are different levels of uncertainty that in some levels, due to their high uncertainty, a phased approach will not work. Therefore, in the current study due to the high level of uncertainty, DEMATEL technique with grey approach was employed

The purpose of the present study is to propose a conceptual model to measure the Inter-organizational Learning Capability SAPCO supply chain. By reviewing the literature and similar studies, a collection of inter-organizational learning capabilities measures was identified. Subsequently, by conducting a semi-structured interview with academic experts and industry managers, we removed some measures and modified others. Finally, 41 items were determined in three dimensions of relationship quality, learning orientation, and application of inter-organizational systems as inter-organizational learning capability evaluation questions. In the next step, a 5 point Likert scale questionnaire was distributed among experts and technical and non-technical managers of the SAPCO supply of 220 employees. After completion and collection of questionnaires, 202 questionnaires were obtained. To evaluate the fit of the model, we used a confirmatory factor analysis. The results of confirmatory factor analysis showed that the research model has suitable fit. The component of learning orientation with factor load (0.89) had the highest impact and the inter-organizational relationship quality with factor load (0.64) had the least impact on explaining of inter-organizational learning construct. Based on the proposed model, the inter-organizational learning level for the SAPCO supply chain obtained 3.63 (from 1-5). Keyword: Inter-organizational Learning, Inter-organizational relationship quality, learning orientation, inter-organizational systems

One of the important resources of each organization in terms of competitiveness and innovation is the proper knowledge management and knowledge sharing process in the organization. Despite the importance of knowledge sharing, human resources in the organization may refrain from doing it. This study aimed to investigate and identify the antecedents (attitude to learning and sharing, perceived organizational support and leadership role) and consequences (job performance, task performance and adaptive performance) of knowledge sharing. The statistical population in the current study includes employees of Tejarat bank. The descriptive statistics, correlation with Pearson coefficient test as well as structural equation modeling via AMOS and SPSS softwares were applied to analyze the data. Findings of the study revealed that antecedents of Knowledge Sharing including Attitude toward Learning and Sharing, Perceived Organizational Support and Leadership Role, has a significant and positive effect on Knowledge Sharing variable. In addition Knowledge Sharing was found to significantly and positively impact on the Performance. The results also confirmed the mediating role of Knowledge Sharing in relation to the impact of Attitude toward Learning and Sharing and Leadership Role variables on Performance. However Perceived Organizational Support does not affect Performance through Knowledge Sharing and therefore related hypothesis is rejected

Due to organizations variant environment and because of today’s competitive business, creating economic value added is consider as a main goal of organizations. Therefore using these value based concepts, are getting more critical among top managers. Balanced Score Card (BSC) as a standard framework which is including all factors that affects on organization performance can be used for calculating value. System Dynamic (SD) also used as a means for increasing effectiveness of Balanced score card, (Karl,2007). Thus BSC model based on dynamic simulation can simulate organization’s future behavior with desirable scenarios and finally choose more efficient strategy for implementation. In this paper an effort has been made to use dynamic BSC and at the same time benefited from European foundation for quality management (EFQM) indicators which is annually evaluate and examined and value created factors was driven with viewpoints and experts advise. After that creating dynamic hypothesis was done and we identify cause and effect relation between four aspects of balanced score card model, thus final model based on cause and effect relations was collect and after finalizing a model, different scenarios that help us reaching total value was done, and then the best scenarios for achieving further value was demonstrated