today, customer knowledge is one of the most important resources to innovation and organizations whose capabilities should be improved to absorb this knowledge. the acquiring and applying the customer knowledge are not facile and all forms of the customer information and knowledge do not result value creating. thus, current study introduces a model to measure customer knowledge absorptive capac...

This paper proposes a new approach to simulation modeling of natural systems in the context of water quality modeling in streams affected by point source pollution. The approach has a potential for application to other domains of natural resource modeling. Its conceptual basis is knowledge-based simulation and systems analysis. In the approach presented in this paper, a stream or its section is...

The aim of this study is to design the excellence in Mobarakeh Steel Company's strategic knowledge management. To achieve this goal, the researcher has used qualitative and quantitative methods. Therefore, the research method is the mixed one. This study, based on the nature of the data and data collection procedure, is a descriptive, exploratory research. It follows and applies development obj...

In this paper we outline a cognitive theory and model of surprise judgements which aims to explain how and why some events are considered to be surprising in a piece of text , while others are not. The model is based on a series of experiments carried out by Grimes -Maguire and Keane (2005a), which show that subtle changes in the predictability of a discourse can have a profound effect on a rea...

According to the matter of knowledge-based businesses development in economic development and job creation of the state, it is so important to identify effective strategies and factors in developing entrepreneurship, supporting commercializing and branding of knowledge-based businesses and the environment in which these businesses fare formed. The purpose of the present research is offering an ...