پژوهش نامه انتقادی متون و برنامه های علوم انسانی
پیاپی 105 (امرداد 1401)

The book “Economic Behaviorology According to Holy Quran” is honorable for referring to an important issue on the borders of Economics and for having a Quranic approach. Using the analytical method, the current paper analyses the performance of this book in promoting the borders of discussions on economic Behaviorology. According to the findings of the paper, the book suffers from three main problems namely return between systematic analysis and Behaviorology, making a vague conflict between materialist and innatist Human and Behaviorology in the framework of the perfect rationality approach. Therefore, it could not access its goals. The main problem is the lack of attention to the boundaries of human rationality which is an important issue in Behavioral Economics. Contrary to the findings of the book, there has been attention to cognitive, motivational, and intentional boundaries of rationality in Quranic economic Behaviorology. Therefore, Allah almighty mentioned some solutions.

The study of the role of government in the school of German Ordoliberalism in order to be considered as an alternative to the neoliberal capitalist system after the global crisis of 2008 and influencing the development model of West Germany after World War II and its effects on the model of EU governance and some other countries are important. The purpose of this article is to review, evaluate and critique the analysis" of works produced and translated into Persian in this field. some suggestions were made as follows: citing sources and first-hand thinkers of this school, distinguishing between similar concepts, correcting in-text references and equations Making specialized reforms, using valid analysis methods, paying attention to the foundations of ontology, anthropology, arithmetic, and ethics and its effect on the role of the government in this school and its critique from an Islamic perspective, and finally paying attention to different dimensions of the role of the state in this school, including the role of the economic constitution, social policy, and finally the presentation of an analytical model of concepts related to the role of the state and the relations and interactions between them.

“Methodology of Islamic Economics” is a textbook for MA and PhD students of Islamic economics. Using the concept of institution, the author has tried to make a connection between the Shari'a rules, as matters of conventionals, and economic realities and concludes that differences of conventionals in Islamic societies and others, requires differences in social realities and so Islamic economics requires a different methodology. The author then examines a list of institutions derived from the Shari'a rules and how it affects social realities. The main drawback of the book is to move away from the methodology and there is almost no discussion about the evaluation of theories of Islamic economics or the criterion of the scientific nature of these theories. Much of the book discusses the differences between Islamic economics theories from those of neoclassical economics. The author has used some concepts of institutionalism without clarifying the relationship between institutionalism and Islamic economics. The critique of the foundations of neoclassical economics also relies on other schools of economics, including the German historical school and behavioral and institutional economics, while the author was expected to critique from the perspective of Islamic economics. It is suggested that the title of the book can be changed and the author can make a fundamental review of the book's topics in the next edition.

The book “Risk Sharing in Finance: The Islamic Finance Alternative” (Askari, Iqbal, Krichne and Mirakhor, 2012) seeking to draw the general spirit of the Islamic financial system, explaining its differences with the conventional system (in roots and foundations and also In functions and consequences) as well as drawing its main building blocks in a deep and fundamental approach. In this book, "risk sharing" is introduced as the central concept of the Islamic financial system. Risk sharing system by linking the real sector to the financial sector, prevents the “financialization” and the occurrence of successive crises; On the other hand, due to the emphasis on risk sharing, it will increase financial inclusion and consequently, the welfare of the community. From the authors' point of view, this system has not been realized yet and the financial system in Islamic countries is far from its ideal situation due to the lack of some institutional prerequisites. In the critical review of the book, there is not much criticism of the main idea, but there are some weaknesses in the processing of some concepts and relations, as well as the explanation of some philosophical foundations, consequences and functions, and the implementation of the ideal Islamic system.

The book titled “The Marketisation of Higher Education and the Student as Consumer” has acceptable diverse matters, but lacks a clear analytical method and inner coherence in content. An overview of book showed that three broad concepts as what, why and nature of higher education cover the main subjects of the book. Analysis of what is marketization reveals that in a marketized higher education system, the admission of students, the price charged, the regulations of admittance and so on are determined by demand and supply. Additionally, examining why is marketization suggests that economic pressures, the difficulty of governmental finance, an increase in social demands, globalization, and so forth are the most important factors of driving universities toward marketization. In addition, benefits such as improvement of efficiency and expansion of competition are the prime reasons justifying marketization. Finally, higher education is not a public good which government to be its organizer. Therefore, higher education has the intrinsic capability of performance in the market framework.

Understanding the logic behind the success and failure in economic growth, and institutional and global arrangements is the subject of this book. Identifying growth’s binding constraints and the need for finding solutions for development issues according to the circumstances of countries is an alternative approach to this book on development. This paper aims at evaluating “One Economics, Many Recipe” in presenting an initiative for economic growth and development. Analytical-descriptive method is used in reviewing the book and conducting methodological assessment. The results indicated the advantages and challenges of the arguments put forwarded by the book. Among the advantages is the consideration of each country's circumstances in growth policy, the lack of one size fits all for economic policies for development, challenging the universalism of neoclassical teachings, the distinction between ignition of growth and its sustainability, and questioning of the exaggerating in the benefits of trade liberalization. Among the challenges are using the prescription on the title of the translated book, problems in implementing the growth diagnostic method, utilizing qualitative methods instead of quantitative in growth diagnosis in practice, neglecting policies and measures for the second stage in growth sustainability, and methodological assessment of growth diagnosis.

The main purpose of this article is to analyze and critique the content of a historical work entitled "The History of Educational Administration Viewed Through Its Textbooks". This book represents the reality of educational administration in a relatively long period of time in the mirror of public textbooks in this field and is a unique and valuable book by choosing a different tool for reviewing the historical course of educational administration. Therefore, while analyzing the structural, content and methodological features of this historical monument, its strengths and shortcomings were identified and extracted. The most important points in this book are the classification of historical courses in educational administration compared to similar classifications, the use of polysemous words in writing historical courses, ambiguity in distinguishing general and specialized textbooks of educational administration and internal inconsistency of the content of each course. Also, as a result of coping with the text, the quality of the Persian translation of the book was evaluated in terms of replacing the specialized Persian and correct equivalents, text, and psychological text, as well as the rules of writing and editing.

In Iran, educational sciences began as an academic discipline in 1932, but, the essential questions here are, ‘what was the historical context of the establishment of Educational Sciences as a discipline in Iran?’ and ‘what process did it go through to reach the stage of quantitative development?’ It seems that the formation of educational sciences in Iran has taken place on the basis of historical factors including a) the founding of Darul-Fonun, b) the socio-cultural changes during the period between the founding of Dar ul-Fonun and the Persian Constitutional Revolution, c) the Persian Constitutional Revolution, and d) sending of students to Europe. As a result of these, Educational Sciences in Iran was not rooted in traditional educational institutions and not rely on our legal and philosophical heritage. Educational sciences in Iran, were only able to emerge from the channel of professional provision (ie, teacher education) and to accept itself in our traditional society, perhaps if it had another path of emergence, it would have faced resistance. After emerging in such a context, Educational Sciences have undergone special historical periods to reach the stage of quantitative development that was discussed.

Today, thinkers and policymakers envision new roles for human resource management, one of the most important one is "competency-basing" in all functions of human resource management from planning and selection as input processes to the development and maintenance and output processes of human resources. The purpose of this article is to review the “Competency-Based Human Resource Management” book by David Dubios et al. The book is reviewed and criticized based on two methods of formalist critique that focuses on form - elements such as structure and writing- and research critique that gives originality to the content, and also based on the criteria of the Iranian Council for Reviewing Books and Text on Human Sciences. Findings showed that the main strengths of the book are having a theoretical and practical perspective, paying attention to the organizational context in the application of competencies and confronting and comparing traditional with competency-based human resource processes. This work also has points for improvement, the most important of which are the lack of up-to-date references despite the reprint of the book, issues unrelated to or less related to the main concept of the book, and the need to explain new methods of human resource management processes in the competency-based approach. In the end, based on the findings, suggestions were made in two headings of form and content.

The purpose of this article is to review and critique the book entitled “Measuring and Managing Organizational Culture Tools and Methods for Improvement” the Work of Mahdi Ebrahimi Blani, Vida Rashidi and Saeed Shahbazmoradi. This work has been written in the field of management and organizational culture and has been set up in four chapters and a preface. In the process of critique and evaluation of this book, the criteria and indicators of critique are used in accordance with the model provided by the Iranian council for reviewing books and text on human sciences. In this regard, this book is evaluated in terms of method and then in terms of content and structure. Also, book improvements are charged to enrich the book and opening the other fields of research. The result of studying this work showed that the authors of the book can increase the credibility of the work by observing the principles of reference in the expression of texts and tables and also by combining the work with Islamic texts and by structural and content review of the work can add to the richness of the work.

Many researchers, professionals, and managers believe that knowledge is one of the key assets of organizations and businesses in the current era. In this regard, the term knowledge strategy has been considered in order to clarify the knowledge assets for the organization, which ultimately improves the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization by implementing knowledge management and formulating a knowledge management strategy. The book "Knowledge Strategy and Knowledge Management" seeks to explain two main concepts, namely "Knowledge Strategy" and "Knowledge Management Strategy" in four chapters. This book is one of the first works in the Persian language to focus on the concept of knowledge strategy. Although the book addresses an important issue that is one of the key needs business managers, the distinction between strategic management, knowledge strategy, strategic knowledge management, etc. is not clearly stated. The purpose of this article is to review the book "Knowledge Strategy and Knowledge Management" from different aspects.

One of the best ways to maintain knowledge and efficiency of knowledge capital is knowledge management. Knowledge management is a management tool and the process of creating value from the invisible assets of the organization. The purpose of this article is to critically review the book "Fundamentals and Theory of Religious Knowledge Management and its Applications" by Hassan Ali Nemati Shamsabad. In this article, an attempt was made to critically and unbiasedly critique the book with a descriptive-analytical approach, citing evidence and documents based on the evaluation criteria introduced by the Council for the Review of Humanities Texts and Books. The tool of critique of the worksheet was the critique of the textbooks and academic books of the Council for the Review of Humanities Texts and Books. Criticisms were presented in both form and content. Accordingly, the main strengths of the book are the comprehensiveness of the content, systematic approach, coherent and structured view of the issues, compatibility of the work with Islamic wisdom and modeling in scientific-academic sources according to Islamic sources. One of the shortcomings and points that can be improved in the book is that it has a theoretical rather than practical effect. This article tries to add to the richness of the book's topics by looking critically at the formal and content dimensions of the work and relying on research citations.

Critique of academic books causes due care to be taken in their proper organization. Accordingly, the purpose of this article is to critique the book of “The Basics of Neuroleadership: Organizational Leadership by Neuroscience”, by Kiumars Ahmadi and published in 2018 by the Termed Press. The method of evaluation and critique of this work is citation-analytical and in accordance with the model proposed by the Council for the Study of Humanities Texts and Books in the framework of general introduction, form and content study of the work. According to the findings, the strengths of the book include the innovation in the subject and its interdisciplinary and typography, quality of printing, the content congruence with the principles and Foundations of religion and Islam. Shortcomings of this book includes that the text is not that much fluent and eloquent. There are some necessary headlines completely missed in the text. Overall, in spite of its Excellency, the book is needed to be revised and edited in order to be applied as an educational textbook.

One of the serious harms of management education in Iran is the weakness of the content of textbooks and the lack of attention to the practical dimension and skill-building in writing them. The purpose of this article is to review and compare management textbooks in the field of organizational behavior at home and abroad. After reviewing various books on organizational behavior that are taught in management schools in the country and abroad, four common textbook titles , two domestic book titles from SAMT Publication and two foreign book titles from McGrawHill Higher Education Publication were selected. Then by using the comparative case study method, the similarity and difference of these four books were analyzed and compared based on appearance and content indicators. The research findings show that the two domestic textbooks are mainly written with a theoretical approach and their content is not up to date, while the two foreign textbooks are compiled with a practical and skill-building approach and have flexible, up-to-date and integrated content. Then, the content of one of these books (as a benchmark) was examined in more detail. Finally, a framework for compiling and reviewing management textbooks in Iran was presented.

The present study was conducted with the aim of developing and validating a quality management model in order to implement the educational goals of the document of fundamental transformation of education and upbringing with a combined approach. In terms of applied purpose, the present research method was a combination of consecutive exploratory type and data collection method in the qualitative part, field using interviews and in the quantitative field using a questionnaire. The statistical population in the qualitative section includes professors of educational management familiar with the document of education and training as well as familiar with quality management, who were purposefully selected as a standard for qualitative interviews on the subject of research (19 interviews with 19 people and up to The theoretical saturation limit continued) and in the second (quantitative) part, after collecting information from qualitative research, a questionnaire was constructed. Therefore, in general, it was found that the categories of strategic quality management model in order to implement the educational goals of the document of fundamental transformation of education and training, in order of importance, including infrastructure, evaluation, finance, human resources, participatory education, communication, human, organizational structure, program is planning and training. The directors of education in the country are recommended to use the results of the present study to achieve the educational goals of the document of fundamental change in education.

Analysis of Public policy is a new trend of public administration in prestigious universities that studies the role of analysts in formulating and implementing public policy and providing different styles of analysis. Policy analysis is a way to formulate and identify problems in order to search for possible solutions. For this purpose, the book “Analysis of Public Policy: Concepts, Approaches, Models, and Processes”, Tehran: University of Tehran Press. 2018. 272 ​​p. ISBN 6-7092-03-964-978 has been selected and criticized. This research is of content analysis type and is applied in terms of critical implementation. In this regard, first, the creator and descriptive form and content of the work are introduced and then evaluated and analyzed in three dimensions of appearance, structure and content. The evaluation shows that this book, while having its own advantages and strengths, needs to be reviewed and corrected in the above three dimensions, especially the production of appropriate content with general policy analysis.

The purpose of this article is to review and critique the book “Strategic Management and Business Policy” by Thomas L. Wheelen and J. David Hunger. In the process of critique and evaluation of this book, the criteria and indicators of critique are used in accordance with the model provided by the Council for the Study of Humanities Texts and books. In this regard, the formal and content dimensions of the book have been studied and criticized with an analytical approach. The technical characteristics of the work such as cover design, page layout, font type, are considered desirable and appropriate, at the same time, the quality of some tables and diagrams is undesirable. The results of evaluating the qualitative content of the book showed that some words need to be revised in translation. Due to the main goals of the book, it was not necessary to present topics in a separate chapter. On the other hand, some issues such as mission statement, vision, and practical tools in the process of analyzing the environment and formulating strategy have not been considered. Considering the strengths and weaknesses of the book, it can be said that the content of the book meets the scientific and practical needs of the country. So, scholars can use its content to increase knowledge related to strategic management.

Public administration studies governments, government institutions, and structures, as well as the actions of individuals in the public sector. Numerous books have been written and translated in the field of public administration. Few of these books have gained legitimacy and acceptance among readers. The book "Managerial Movements in Public Sector" by Dr. Hasan Danaeefard is one of the most comprehensive books written in the field of public administration and therefore has been considered as a textbook for teaching in public administration courses and the main source of study for the graduate entrance exam for recent years. In this article, the attempt was to review the book in a descriptive-analytical manner, by mentioning the evidence and documents. The book was critiqued from four dimensions: formal, structure, writing and content. According to this, on one hand, the main strengths of the book are the use of credible sources, comprehensiveness and up-to-datedness of the content, accurate citation method, and use of practical examples. On the other hand, this book has also some drawbacks, the most important of which are lack of observance of writing symbols, inconsistency of some sentences, lack of image quality of the cover design and its incompatibility with the subject of the book and lack of structural and content coherence in some sentences.

Organizations are one of the main foundations of today's society, and management is the most important factor in the life, growth, and development or death of organizations. The manager guides the process from the current situation to the desired situation and strives at every moment to create a better future. The past has happened with all its nature and learning, and with all the impact it can have on the future, and no human force can recreate it in a different way, but the future is on its way and an important part of it has to do with what is happening today. This article examines and critiques the book “Organizational Change (Themes & Issues)” by Jim Grieves, translated by Dr. Parviz Ahmadi and first the book is evaluated in terms of form and then it is considered in terms of content and structure. Also, the book's expandable points are mentioned to make it richer.

Theory analysis and critique is the first step in a thorough and in-depth understanding of the theory and the entry into the theorizing in a particular field. This study aims to emphasize the extension of criticism culture in the organization and management literature. In this article, Bryson's strategic planning theory select for the critic as a sample of theory criticism. Since Bryson's strategic planning model is one of the most well-known studies in the field of strategic planning in the world and a large number of research and practices have used this model. This study used a combined criticism method to analyze and critic this theory, based on content, methodology, historical point of view, and also the personal and professional life of the theorist. The results discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the theory, especially in terms of content and methodology, and explain the impact of the theoretical, intellectual, social, and historical context of the theory and discuss the application of the theory in Iranian organizations.