Choosing a desired policy for divestiture of dominant firms’ generation assets has been a challenging task and open question for regulatory authority. To deal with this problem, in this paper, an analytical method and agent-based computational economics (ACE) approach are used for ex-ante analysis of divestiture policy in reducing market power. The analytical method is applied to solve a design...

today’s world economy situation forces enterprise organizations toward more soft and flexible organization, management, and production processes. they need to explore the most suitable knowledge management (km) tool not only to identify gaps and overlaps but also to maintain and support innovation cross organizations. in this study, a multiple-experts-multiple-criteria decision making model is ...

nowadays, the utilization of organizational knowledge and sharing it with other employees in governmental project-based organizations, have become a strategic source of gaining and preserving competitive advantage. acquiring competitive advantage requires means and approaches that make the governmental project-based organizations capable of improving their knowledge sharing performance and gain...

by the appropriate use of information technology, organizations can achieve sustainable competitive advantages. this technology because of including some characteristics such as being up-to-date, fast and precise and having different geographic localities all the time, has improved organizational efficiency, effectiveness and performance. in this article, we intend to investigate the role and e...

This paper builds a theoretical framework to detect the conditions under which social influence enables persistence of a shared opinion among members of an organization over time, despite membership turnover. It develops agent-based simulations of opinion evolution in an advice network, whereby opinion is defined in the broad sense of shared understandings on a matter that is relevant for an or...

Organizational ability for continuous self-induced innovation, learning and development has emerged as a popular topic in recent management science literature. Nevertheless, there is no widely shared view on how organizational renewal should be defined and what it consists of. Consequently, this paper aims to produce an integrative definition of organizational renewal ability and to examine its...

there are considerable debates about the existence, nature, and application of entrepreneurship within the public sector. the present survey analyzes the application of entrepreneurship in iranian public sector organizations. for this purpose, the situation of entrepreneurship within the head offices of iranian public service organizations was considered. also, based on mckeinsy and daft’s fram...