Despite the importance of the business model in implementing strategy, this issue is less addressed than strategy. This important issue regarding banks' business model has received less attention, and research in Iran and other countries has caused a deprivation of knowledge. In addition to the scientific pathology of the business model in Iranian commercial banks, the present article seeks to ...

Stock price crash risk has a significant impact on investors, creditors, managers, and shareholders, so the prediction of this phenomenon is a very important issue in investment and risk management decisions. This research investigates the effect of business strategy and stock price synchronicity on stock price crash risk. Following Bentley et al.[2], composite strategy score has been used to ...

During the last decade a variety of information technologies have emerged relating to business process modelling. One issue resulting from the introduction of these technologies is the inability to link the business process definition with the information gathered during the development of the business strategy. Organisations require the ability to define their business strategy, then use the o...

In this paper, they have proposed a framework for the optimization of data processing in business processes in order to optimize business process revenues and profits. A multi-stage control strategy is suggested for this optimization task. A rule based optimization of business processes is introduced using rewrite rules and a control strategy to transform the business process into a more effici...

Nowadays, the alignment of business processes to corporate strategy is an important success factor. However, especially implemented business processes do not sufficiently incorporate business objectives. Process managers are facing the challenge on how to optimize already established workflows in organizations based on strategic goals. This contribution proposes a new modeling approach that lin...

A number of previous studies have interpreted differences in brain activation between arithmetic operation types (e.g. addition and multiplication) as evidence in favor of distinct cortical representations, processes or neural systems. It is still not clear how differences in general task complexity contribute to these neural differences. Here, we used a mental arithmetic paradigm to disentangl...

This study utilizes a mixed method approach to examine the relationship between IS/Business alignment practices and organizational choice of IS/business alignment strategy. To this end, the significance of six maturity factors of IS/Business alignment – governance, partnership, scope and architecture, communication, value, and skills – from the Strategic Alignment Maturity model are examined ag...