ranked ninth in nano-science production, iran has a bright and hopeful perspective to exploit business opportunities and create wealth of this technology. universities and research centers as organizations in where researchers study, play an effective role in research commercialization. the purpose of this research is to identify and prioritize organizational factors affecting commercialization...

It has been known for some time that organizations are investing in IT to achieve competitive advantage as well as profit. They have realized that by only investing in IT applications they cannot attain sustainable competitive advantage [TaKr03]. However, to obtain that advantage they need to utilise IT functionality on a continuous basis [HeVe99]. In order to do so IT needs to align with busin...

W hat's your digital business strategy? How should you strategically manage your digital resources? Digital resources might present an opportunity for your business model, as they did for eBay, Google, Amazon, and Netflix. Or these resources might threaten your business model, as they have for Kodak, Borders, Blockbuster, and the New York Stock Exchange. Global spending on IT resources exceeds ...

Strategy scholars have used the notion of the Business Model to refer to the ‘logic of the firm’ e how it operates and creates value for its stakeholders. On the surface, this notion appears to be similar to that of strategy. We present a conceptual framework to separate and relate the concepts of strategy and business model: a business model, we argue, is a reflection of the firm’s realized st...

     Todays, the parent company has a great role in managing and monitoring subsidiaries and companies in promoting their industrial activities. But, the main problem for pharmaceutical parent companies is the lack of clarity and confusion of responsibilities between units. Successful parenting needs to create the element of 'fit' between the ways parent operates – parent characte...

Although strategic alignment is an important theoretical concept, and achieving alignment or fit among organizational elements would seem to be an important business objective, empirical demonstrations of the importance of alignment have been uncommon (White 1986). This study attempted to provide an empirical assessment of the nature and importance of information systems strategic alignlnent Th...