Given the complexities of supply chain networks, the firms consider modern technologies as a potential factor to improve their supply chain performances. One of these technologies is the Internet of Things (IoT). Hence, the main purpose of this study has been to achieve the conceptual model of the IoT implementation in hospital supply chains. Considering the qualitative nature of the study, rel...

Manufacturing information integration requires translations among various functional systems’ information models which are based on different paradigms (e.g., Entity-Relationship, Relational, and Object). In order to facilitate this potentially overwhelming task, a meta-model is needed to serve as the conceptual schema for models integration at both development phase and run-time. This paper pr...

Talent management has been on the agenda of many organizations in recent years because of the belief in the importance of talent in achieving organizational excellence. The purpose of this study is to infer the conceptual model of behavioral factors affecting talent management. Therefore, applying the Meta-Synthesizing technique, researchers studied the findings of the articles which exist in v...

This study examines how gamification mechanics could be used in online retailers' loyalty programs. In other words, this article attempts to create a conceptual model for the relationship between gamification mechanics and customer loyalty elements. We used a field study to conduct our research. In order to validate the survey, 450 customers from one of the greatest online stores in Iran were q...

Conditions and challenges in the country's banking industry including the increasing intensity of competition in this industry and the quality of services have compounded the importance of assessing the current situation of the internal control systems and its role in increasing the quality of services. It should also be more vital to recognize the drawbacks in order to find new strategies to m...

Background: Conceptual review is a creative research method for generating new knowledge in the context of a vague and complex concept that helps to explain and clarify the concept, its components and its relation to related concepts. This study aimed to explain the methodology of conceptual review in the health system. Methods: Articles related to the conceptual research method were searched ...

Applying taxonomic reasoning and TL in database environment for traditional semantic data models led to a number of promising results for database schema design and other relevant topics, as query processing and data recognition. In particular, in [ Bergamaschi and Sartori,1992 ] a general theoretical framework has been presented, which supports conceptual schema acquisition and organization by...

One of the requirements which is poorly supported by spatial data models is a consistent management of different representations of the same spatial phenomena from different viewpoints or at different resolutions. This need is well known by users and designers. Modelling of applications, where users share the same database for different contexts and cartographic applications are examples of env...

This paper presents a solution to the maintenance problem in hypermedia by applying object-oriented techniques to both the hypermedia data model and the hypermedia system’s actual implementation. First, the primary concepts of the “MESH” (Maintainable, End user friendly, Structured Hypermedia) approach are discussed briefly. These consist of a conceptual data model, a navigation paradigm and an...