نشریه مدیریت نوآوری و راهبردهای عملیاتی
سال سوم شماره 4 (پیاپی 12، زمستان 1401)

This study analyzes the effect of business intelligence on firm performance by considering the mediating role of knowledge sharing, organizational innovation, and competitive advantage.

The following research is applied research. Since this study examines the relationship between several variables, for example, the relationship between business intelligence variables on firm performance, and it does not manipulate these variables, it is descriptive correlational research. The statistical population of this research is small and medium entrepreneurs in Tehran province. The method of data collection is a questionnaire. The number of items in the questionnaire is 42, the sample size of which is 202 questionnaires, and all of them have been completed rightly. Structural equation modeling and SPSS and PLS 3 software were used to analyze the data.

This research has 7 hypotheses, 5 hypotheses of the research have been confirmed and the findings indicate that business intelligence has an impact on the sharing of competitive knowledge and firm performance. This shows that managers should pay attention to the implementation of business intelligence in their organization to enhance their performance and increase their ability to respond to external risks and challenges. The findings of this study also show that knowledge sharing impacts competitive advantage and finally, competitive advantage impacts firm performance.

Originality/Value:

 The results of this study showed that the use of business intelligence in the organization and small and medium entrepreneurship will lead to increased performance, competitive advantage, and increased knowledge sharing. This research can help organizations to use business intelligence in their activities in a more specialized way.

Today, organizations need to implement an innovation strategy supported by competent human resources and appropriate internal processes in order to succeed and achieve sustainable financial performance in the face of global competition; Therefore, the present study investigates the role of innovation strategy in active manufacturing companies in Yazd province in financial performance through human resource mediator variables and internal processes.

The present research method is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of nature and method of collecting descriptive-survey information. The statistical population of this study consists of financial managers and senior accounting supervisors of production units in Yazd province; the available sampling method was used to select the sample, and a total of 100 acceptable questionnaires were collected and analyzed. Cronbach's alpha coefficient confirmed the content validity of the questionnaires according to experts' opinions, and the structure's validity was confirmed using confirmatory factor analysis and reliability. Data analysis was performed using the structural equation technique, SPSS 21, and smart PLS 3 software.

The research findings show that the innovation strategy significantly affects human resources and internal processes, but its effect on financial performance is insignificant. On the other hand, the effect of internal processes on financial performance was substantial, but human resources did not significantly affect financial performance. The results also show that the innovation strategy does not affect financial performance through human resources, but through internal processes has been able to affect financial performance.

Originality/Value:

 Today, the major changes created in the business environment along with the competition have highlighted the role of managers in the management of industries in order to improve the performance of the organization. Theoretically, contingency theory supports the relationship between innovation and performance by explaining the role of organization design. Obviously, the role of human resource capability and internal process can also be effective in this regard; Therefore, according to the research gap in the previous studies, the present study investigated the relationship between innovation strategy and financial performance with the mediating role of human resources and internal process at the level of industrial units in Yazd province as one of the country's industrial hubs.

The purpose of this study was to comparing the impact of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on the economic welfare of Iranian provinces during the period 2000-2019. In this Research, the Panel Data model was used.

The statistical population studied in this research includes the provinces of Iran research.Time series information about these provinces has been collected from data available in the Energy Balance, Statistics Center and Iran Economic and Financial Database, which using Eviews software was tested. Variables used in this study include: consumption of renewable energy and non-renewable energy sources (solar, hydropower, wind, Geothermal, oil, gas and gasoline), economic welfare, population, labor, unemployment rate, inflation rate, income distribution inequality (Gini coefficient) and real gdp.

The results show that consumption of renewable energy has a positive and significant impact and consumption of non-renewable energy has a negative and significant impact on wellfares. Also, the variables of unemployment rate, inflation rate, and income distribution inequality (Gini coefficient) have a negative and significant effect and the variables of population growth rate, GDP, and labor productivity have a positive and significant effect on economic welfare, which is in accordance with the theoretical foundations of research.

Originality/Value: 

The results showed that the use of renewable energy in the provinces of Iran with respect that it has a greater effect than compared to non-renewable energy in increase economic welfare could by investing in this production unit, the share of renewable energy use in Iran can be increased.

Appropriate organizational climate can be effective in motivating and improving the morale and participation of people in their decisions and creativity and innovation and can be considered as a source in ensuring the mental health of employees. However, inappropriate atmosphere can also be a major source of stress. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between organizational commitment and organizational climate with the general health of physical education teachers in Kermanshah province.

Methodology :

The statistical population of the present study was 1200 physical education teachers in Kermanshah province, which according to Morgan table, 291 people were selected as a sample through systematic random sampling. To measure the variables, four questionnaires of demographic characteristics, Mir and Allen questionnaire (1996), questionnaire (OCDQ-RS) and Goldberg and Hiller questionnaire (2012) were used. Formal and content validity were confirmed by opinion polls from related professors and the reliability of the questionnaires was reported to be 0.79, 0.87 and 0.79 using Cronbach's alpha. Descriptive statistics methods were used to describe the variables and inferential statistics were used to test the research hypotheses at a significance level of α ≤ 0 0.05.

The results showed that there was a significant difference between the dimensions of organizational commitment (P = 0.008), organizational climate (P = 0.001) and general health (P = 0.001) of teachers. There was a significant difference between organizational commitment and different levels of public health (P = 0.024), but no significant difference was observed between organizational climate and different levels of public health (P = 0.152).

Originality/Value:

 It is noteworthy that the physical education sector of the category of education needs specialized and capable people in the field of physical education to be able to put their knowledge to the stage of application, no matter the organizational climate and organizational commitment If physical education teachers are in better condition, they will have more general health and can be more motivated to move towards the goals of the organization.

In this study, the strategies of internal and external decision makers in Borjam are examined using game theory.

The decisions made by three related personalities in JCPOA , including the leadership of Iran, the Government of Iran and the group (1 + 5) have been simulated using game theory and analyzed based on the game theory mechanism. In the problem statement section, principles are accepted and the game is designed based on that. The AHP method was used to evaluate the consequences of the game. The low incompatibility rate calculated for this method describes the evaluation results as acceptable. Entering the negotiations in the form of a static game is expressed with complete information and the process of mutual agreement is shown as a dynamic game.

The game is discussed from two aspects, in the pre-game section, the nature of entering or not entering the negotiations is examined. Examining the game process shows that entering into negotiations is a strategic behavior for Iran and the group (5 + 1). But in the main game where strategies for decision making are examined. Trust without guarantee has been shown to change the outcome of the game from win-win to win-lose.

Originality/Value:

 There are various attitudes about JCPOA. In this research, regardless of attitudes and factions, the work process is implemented in a scientific model with a strategic structure.

In this paper a new two-phase method is presented for solving the curriculum based university course timetabling problem. In both phases of the new present method a new metaheuristic approach is used.

Methodology:

 In the first phase of the new method, a feasible high quality solution is computed. To this end, at first the hard constraints relating to the time periods are considered and a solution is computed that satisfies these hard constraints. In the next step, a new method is introduced for the assignment of rooms to courses, after application of which on the solution that satisfies the time period hard constraints, a feasible solution is computed. In the second phase, at first several new neighborhood functions are used to improve the quality of computed feasible solution. While the fitness function of the first phase is based on the violation of hard constraints, the fitness function of the second phase is based on the penalty of the feasible solution.

The numerical results indicate that the required computing time increases with the size of instances and the algorithm tends to converge towards the optimal solution after a few minutes.

Originality/Value: 

The presented algorithm enables us to deal with large university course timetabling problems in practice. Moreover, it provides us with an efficient way to obtain feasible solutions to such real-world instances and try to improve their quality.

Rahyan Noor camps have been considered one example of war tourism in recent decades after the Iran-Iraq war. Due to the importance of this capital, it is worthwhile for the authorities and all the planners of these camps to try to improve the quality of holding these camps.

This research is considered a mixed qualitative-quantitatuve reseach according to the data collection method. This research tries to identify the factors affecting the quality improvement of the Rahyan Noor camps by analyzing the information collected through interviews using the Thematic analysis method. Based on this, sampling was performed to achieve theoretical saturation. Since there is uncertainty in determining the importance of these factors based on each criterion, ranking these factors is based on the Fuzzy TOPSIS algorithm.

According to the results, the optimization of camp time has been selected as the first and most crucial factor, with a relative proximity index of 0.53467.

Originality/Value: 

Optimizing the duration of the camps leads to the appropriate timing of these camps by carefully examining the dispatched groups; the first important step in improving the quality of these camps can be taken according to the desired criteria.