Corporate Governance debates raised seriously in scandals and financial crisis of recent decades in large companies and banks. The focus of this debate is not merely the corporate governance system, and its main function is to preserve the interests of stakeholders. At the macro level, economic efficiency, sustainable growth and financial stability are important effects of the system. Establish...

In financial markets such as Tehran Stock Exchange, P/E coefficient, which is one of the most well-known instruments for evaluating stock prices in financial markets, is considered necessary for shareholders, investors, analysts and corporate executives. P/E is used as an important indicator in investment decisions. In this research, harmony search metaheuristic algorithm is used to select opti...

Abstract Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to review a sample of the literature relating to Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM) and its deployment for modelling purposes in the area of supply chain management (SCM). Design/methodology/approach- The literature is examined from the three perspectives. First, concept of ISM and examines ISM as modelling technique. Second, use of ISM by ...

the corporate entrepreneurship (ce) of firms and enterprises is the subject of current research in the fields of management and business. however, analyses on this subject in agricultural firms are lacking. the purpose of this research was to study the relationships between corporate entrepreneurship and firm performance in agricultural small and medium-sized enterprises (asmes) in iran. specif...

corporate governance (cg) is an important effort to ensure accountability and responsibility and is a set of principles, which should be incorporated into every part of the organization. this study focused on the state of corporate governance (cg) in two categories of the banking industries: conventional banks and islamic banks. as conventional banks and islamic banks differ a great deal in the...

There exist numerous models of software architecture (box models, ADL’s, UML, architectural decisions), architecture modelling frameworks (views, enterprise architecture frameworks) and even standards recommending practice for the architectural description. We show in this paper, that there is still a gap between these rather abstract frameworks/standards and existing architecture models. Frame...

The software literature has many papers expounding the benefits of object oriented systems for developing complex software systems. Some feel that object oriented programming will be in the 80's what structured programming was in the 70's. This paper investigates the application of the object oriented philosophy to the design of a 3D computer graphics animation system currently under developmen...

The increased use of risk assesment in governmental and corporate decisionmaking has increased the role of expert judgement in providing information for safety related decision-making. Expert judgements are required in most steps of risk assessment: hazard identification, risk estimation, risk evaluation and analysis of options. The use and elicitation of expert judgement is therefore subject t...