approach to ranking private companies based on predictive indicators. AI Communications. Private equity investors seek to rank potential investment opportunities in growth stage private companies within an industry sector. The sparsity of historical investment transaction data for many growth stage private companies may present a major obstacle to using statistical methods to discern industry s...

Improving performance of electrical distribution companies, as the natural monopoly entities in electric industry, has always been one of the main concerns of the regulators. In this paper, a new incentive regulatory scheme is proposed to improve the performances of electrical distribution companies. The proposed scheme utilizes several efficiency assessments and a 3-dimentional reward-penalty ...

Based on the macroeconomic policies of the country regarding eliminating reliance on the sale of crude oil and in order to further develop the petrochemical industry and considering the special features of this industry including its technology based nature, facing fast changes and strong competition in the region, it is necessary for the active petrochemical companies to make plans with more i...

Reliability and efficacy of accruals and cash flows which are among the most important factors affecting dividend deviation have always been in question and subject to anomalies. The presence of these anomalies in accruals and cash flows and its effect on future returns and the consequences that they can have in country’s investments are the main motives to choose this issue for the current stu...

The aim of this study is to develop understanding of moral issues in project-based IT companies. Three corporate moral dilemmas, the dirty hands dilemma (balancing between the corporation’s efficiency needs and stakeholder interests), the many hands dilemma (integrating individual members’ actions into a cohesive whole), and the entangled hands dilemma (individual members’ responsibility for gi...

This conceptual paper draws attention to the autopoietic knowledge production as a potential explanation for the project-based company’s learning and organisational memory. First, the concept of project-based company is described. Second, the epistemological assumptions are highlighted with the purpose to get a better understanding of what is knowledge and how it and organisational memory devel...

Risk assessment which is a crucial part of risk management process is widely used in many industries. This assessment can help to identify the potential problems and reduce the risks to an acceptable level. Companies might use different process and methods for the risk assessment. This paper focuses on two particular kinds of companies; Product-oriented Company and Knowledge -based Company. The...