فصلنامه مدیریت توسعه فناوری
سال هفتم شماره 3 (پاییز 1398)

The tourism industry is one of the largest and most diversified industries in the world, and is the most important source of income and job creation in many countries. Because of its growing social and economic importance, the tourism industry has become one of the key pillars of the world economy and is one of the fastest growing industries. Therefore, it is important to examine its determinants in economic issues. In this regard, the present study uses panel data and the Generalized  Method of Moments (GMM)  to examine the effects of the 5 inputs  of national innovationincluding institutions, human capital, infrastructure, market sophistication and business sophistication, and the 2 outputs of national innovation including knowledge and technology outputs and creative outputs of the development of the tourism industry in 20 selected countries during the period 2007-2017. The results show that the effect of all inputs and outputs of national innovation on the development of tourism industry is positive and significant. However, the estimated coefficient of the institutions is larger than the other dimensions and the estimated coefficient of market sophistication is smaller than the other dimensions. Also, the effect of control variables including natural capital, globalization, political stability and real exchange rate on the development of tourism industry is positive and significant.

Nowadays many consumers of ICT, like Social Media, used it not only to keep in touch with their family and friends, but also to stay connected to their favorites business. ICT also paved the way of business units toward marketing and made corporates capable of conducting business through e-platforms. Then, the needs of corporates could no longer be met by the current models of Corporate Entrepreneurship. So, in today's dynamic business, creating an entrepreneurial environment in the corporate taking factors affecting hightech into account was imperative. To boost the profitability of Corporates, this study presented a conceptual model for Technological Corporate Entrepreneurship, like e-business. It helped drive profitability of Technological Corporates by developing smart strategies and making best and effective decisions. Then, the present study was an “Exploratory-Applied" research sorting into purpose-based categorization and a "Qualitative" one in terms of its method. Identification of factors affecting Corporate Entrepreneurship in e-businesses was reached by a well-done literature review. Then 4 rounds of Delphi Techniques were conducted. Afterwards it was screened by 20 experts in those fields. Finally, a conceptual model categorized with 15 influential factors was presented for Techno-Entrepreneurship in Corporates.

The development of various application softwares with gamification features has created a new trend in the business world. With the increasing number of businesses adopting gamification techniques to increase customer engagement, this phenomenon has become an emerging technique in business. Despite this growing trend, marketing literature continues to lack models that explain the use of gamification in understanding customers' acceptance of a disruptive innovation. The purpose of this study was to investigate the intention of accepting a mobile payment application within the framework of an integrated model derived from the Christensen Innovation Adoption Model by adding gamification variable. The purpose of this research is applied and its method is descriptive correlations. 211 questionnaires were collected in a cluster sampling. Reliability of the questionnaire was verified by assessing internal consistency and validity through congruent and divergent validity. The analysis of hypotheses was done in the form of structural equation modeling with the help of Smart PLS2 software. The results showed that gamification along with other variables of the Davies technology adoption model had a significant impact on the adoption of mobile payment software as a disruptive innovation.

Small and medium-sized technology firms are often considered as an important source of technology-based job opportunities and are therefore supported by governments. Investigating the behavioral response of sponsored firms is an important tool for policy learning. This article compares and analyzes the changes in the R & D manpower of knowledge-based firms  before and after receiving various combinations of tax exemption policy tools, technology development facilities  and commercialization facilities in two groups of small-sized knowledge-based  firms (with fewer than 50 employees) and large-sized companies (with 50 and more). The results show that small knowledge-based firms that have received one or both technology and commercialization facilities have been able to increase their R&D manpower, while in large knowledge-based firms none of the supportive tools have had a meaningful impact on the increase in R&D manpower. In the field of evaluating firm-level performance indicators, this article is the first study in Iran that has used the 2k Factorial Design approach to evaluate the impact of policies and the interaction of tools on manpower and R&D. The most important advantage of this approach is that it clarifies the effects of the parameters along with their relative importance and how they interact with each other.

Gaining and sustaining customer loyalty is a key challenge in increasingly competitive markets. Technological Opportunism, as an organizational capability, can help firms to actively scan the markets, identify and understand customer needs and respond to them, and thereby, achieve customer loyalty by building customer trust. Higher customer trust will lead to a higher purchase rate. Technological opportunism is an under-researched area and an issue that has been viewed as a negative approach. The present study, hence, investigates the relationship between technological opportunism and customer loyalty, through building customer trust in a specific brand in the mobile market. The results of the study showed that brand trust cannot moderate the relationship between technological opportunism and customer loyalty. However, certain opportunism dimensions such as sensitivity and response to technological changes can cause behavioral and attitudinal loyalty through increasing customer trust. In addition, sensitivity to technological changes has a direct effect on attitudinal loyalty.

The internet technology platform has simplified and accelerated the creation and development of digital entrepreneurial businesses but it is too slow to implement this kind of business in Iran. On the other hand, no research has examined the success factors of this kind of business yet. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to identify the digital entrepreneurship success drivers with a meta-synthesis approach. This study, in terms of purpose, is considered as an applied research and it is a qualitative research in terms of data collection method. To identify the success factors of digital entrepreneurship with the help of the meta-synthesis method, 311 articles were first reviewed, among which 36 papers were used for final analysis.In this research, 28 success indices of digital entrepreneurship were identified and classified under 3 categories and 7 concepts.Then, using the Shannon Entropy Method, the weight of the extracted indices through the meta-synthesis method was determined. The results of this study show that the index of marketing and relationship with customers in cyberspace with significance factor 0.0660 ranked first and indicators of IT infrastructure and acceptance of digital entrepreneurship in the organization ranked second and third as effective factors on the success of digital entrepreneurship.