development of the e-commerce in manufacturing companies and planning in this area requires knowledge on the factors affecting the decisions made by manufacturing companies to use e-commerce tools. these factors can be divided into two categories: internal and external. the internal factors show the characteristics of domestic firms that will shape their behavior, while the external factors rep...

with the rapid changes in international environments, it's very hard to sustain the corporate competitive advantage. knowing the competitive priorities leads the managers to a better understanding of corporate strategies in the future. the globalization pressure and the rapid changes in local markets have affected the firms' competitive advantages. having a clear understanding of comp...

this paper examines the effects of corporate governance (board structure and ownership structure) and some financial variables on financial statement restatements. for this purpose, citing firms have been divided into two groups: a group comprising firms (48 firms) that have maximum amount of the annual adjustment (more than 5% of ebit) and a group (control group; 46 firms) comprising firms tha...

a limited series of studies on capital structure have been conducted on small-to-medium size enterprises (smes). recent family-bases business literature suggests that these processes are influenced by firm owners’ attitudes toward the utility of debt as a form of financing. other factors like culture, entrepreneurial characteristics, and prior experiences may also be involved. this study intend...

Grounded in the innovation process model and the technology-organization-environment framework, we develop a research model to investigate factors influencing e-business diffusion in organizations. We formulate a series of hypotheses associated with seven contextual factors (technology readiness, technology integration, firm size, global scope, managerial obstacle, competition intensity, and re...