This paper presents an empirical investigation to study the effects of organizational culture and information technology on knowledge sharing in national foundation of computer games (NFCG) located in city of Tehran, Iran. The proposed study designs a questionnaire in Likert scale, distributes it among 55 selected people who work for NFCG, which consists of three categories of organizational culture, information technology and knowledge sharing and Cronbach alphas are calculated as 0.869, 0.707 and 0.773, respectively. Using ANOVA test, the study has determined a positive and meaningful relationship between organizational cultures and knowledge sharing. However, the study has not determined any positive and meaningful relationship between information technology and knowledge sharing. Furthermore, while the results of the study have not indicated any meaningful relationships between trust, employee communication on one side and knowledge sharing on the other side, there were positive and meaningful relationships between reward system and organizational structure on one side and knowledge sharing on the other side.

One of the necessary issues in business development is to register it with government, which helps an organization gain an official identification. However, registering a firm with government often involves with many challenges in different countries. The recent advances in information technology have created tremendous opportunities to expedite the process of business development. This paper presents an empirical investigation to prioritize various factors influencing on information and communication technology development in noncommercial business registration office in Iran. The proposed study designs a questionnaire with eight categories and distributes it among some experts. The results of our survey indicate that Creating a sense of urgency is number one important factor followed by Appropriate planning, Form a coalition FAQ, Fixed improvements, Empowering, Creating a good perspective, New approaches to institution-building and Explanation of Vision.

Competitive intelligence is the art of gathering, processing and analyzing the information about the competitors and environment in order to create and sustain the competitive advantage. The application of competitive intelligence in export companies can provide a complete picture of current and future competitive status for managers in addition to obtaining the most appropriate strategic decisions, which could ultimately lead to the improved exports in these companies. This study investigates the role of competitive intelligence for improvement of exports in Iranian industries. Using structural equation modeling, the study has detected six factors including understanding the competitive environment, intelligent response, superior features, customer orientation, managerial skills and competitive advantage.

This paper presents an empirical investigation to study the effects of virtual social networks on entrepreneurial marketing. The study designs a questionnaire in Likert scale based on a model originally developed by Morris et al. (2002) [Morris, M. H., Schindehutte, M., & LaForge, R. W. (2002). Entrepreneurial marketing: a construct for integrating emerging entrepreneurship and marketing perspectives. Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice, 10(4), 1-19.]. The study considers the effects of three components of virtual social network (VSN); namely structural VSN, interaction VSN and functional VSN on entrepreneurial marketing. Using structural equation modeling, the study has determined positive and meaningful effects of all three VSN components on entrepreneurial marketing.

Entrepreneurship is considered as the key factor of economic growth and development in modern day. Entrepreneurship takes place either individually or organizationally and they normally undertake the risk of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs experience the most severe conditions when they deal with a government, which is completely unfamiliar with some rules. If a government supports an entrepreneur one with the required characteristics, then entrepreneurship is facilitated largely for both individuals and organizations. This article provides definitions, features and the effective factors on realization of an entrepreneur government with respect to significance of such a government. To this end, a list of factors that may lead to realization of entrepreneur government was derived from previous studies and then the fuzzy TOPSIS method and collected opinions of experts were applied to facilitate the determination of each of these factors. Finally, a list of influential factors was presented with regards to effective factors on realization of entrepreneur government.

During the past two decades, there have been tremendous changes on development of information technology (IT). People may do their daily activities using different IT based products such as email, search engines, video conferences, etc. This paper presents an empirical investigation to study the relationship between IT facilities and knowledge management lifecycle components including, knowledge generation, knowledge acquisition, knowledge storage, knowledge transmission and knowledge usage. The study has accomplished among 150 randomly selected people who work for social security organization in city of Esfahan, Iran. Using structural equation modeling, the study has determined that there were positive and meaningful relationship between IT facilities and all components of knowledge management lifecycle.

Measuring the relative efficiency of similar units has been a popular research especially when the units were mostly non-financial. Even, similar financial units may not be necessarily evaluated based on traditional financial figures such as return of equities, return of assets, etc. In this paper, we present an empirical investigation to measure the relative efficiency of 30 branches of an Iranian bank named Bank Mellat. The study considers four inputs including operating expenses, interest paid, capital expenditures and fixed assets. In addition, we use customers’ bank deposit, commissions and loans paid as output parameters. Using three different data envelopment analyses, the study measures the relative efficiencies of all units. The preliminary results indicate that most banks were working under desirable level of efficiency.

This paper presents an empirical investigation on the effects of the computer games on some female students who attended the secondary schools in Iran over the period 2013-2014. The population of the survey includes 7542 female students who attend secondary schools in Babol County, Iran. The study selects 364 people as a sample and the sampling was accomplished based on random cluster way. The necessary data were collected using two questionnaires of computer games and decline of study with 25 questions in Likert 5 points and there were validated by experts and specialists in the field of educational technology and psychology. In addition, Cronbach alpha was calculated as 0.828, which was well above the minimum acceptable level. Using Pearson correlation test as well as one-way t-student, the study indicates that most female students of secondary school in Babol County used computer games. In our survey, there was a strong relationship between computer games with decline of study and study motivation, and there was a weak relationship between computer games and learning of girl students of secondary school in Babol County.

Research has been done on evaluating the performance more emphasis either on the technical aspects of the performance evaluation or considers only one aspect of banks such as sales, revenue, etc. This paper presents an empirical investigation to measure the relative efficiency of different banks using a hybrid of K-means and Grey relational analysis. The study uses eight criteria such as resources, customer satisfaction, etc. for clustering different banks and using Grey relational analysis provides ranking of different branches of a bank named Bank Qarzol Hasane Resalat located in city of Tehran, Iran. The preliminary study has indicated that the proposed model of this paper may capable of providing some promising results.

Nowadays, the issue of “globalization” is entering to all areas in the world. In addition to products and companies, cities and countries also have the opportunity to see themselves as important actors in international arena. Places define their positions in different fields like business, leisure and recreation, educational opportunities, living, etc. This paper presents an empirical study to introduce city branding as one of the solutions to join globalization process. The method of this research is based on the “descriptive-analytic” and utilize the available literature and experts’ opinions to prioritize the influencing factors of city branding. We use Delphi consensus methods and technique of analytical hierarchy process to evaluate the factors. Finally, the results of the study indicate that security, transportation and mental creativity are the weakest fields and business and shopping facilities are strong fields of city branding in metropolitan of Tehran.