this research was conducted to investigate the factors contributing to thefailure in the forestry and rangeland by-product cooperative companies in lorestanprovince, iran. a descriptive-correlative research design was used. the statisticalpopulations were 1100 people divided into two groups of experts from natural resourceagency in lorestan province and members of cooperative companies. the sam...

As organizations have increasingly invested in information technology (IT), they have looked for an IT workforce not just with technical skills but also with managerial ones. It has thus been paramount for the IT workforce to pursue a balance between two streams the technical and the managerial one. Accordingly, the IT professionals have had difficulties to deal with the increasing technical an...

Technical efficiency of wheat farms in eastern England is measured through the estimation of a stochastic frontier production function using panel data for the 1993–1997 crop years. Variations in the technical efficiency index across production units are explained through a number of managerial and farm characteristic variables following Battese and Coelli (1995) [Empirical Econ. 20, 325–332] a...

Using data on 2941 practicing managerial accountants, we explore rank-based di€erences in measured ability, and technical, industry, and tacit managerial knowledge. Our data indicate that concomitant with increases in rank are: (1) decreasing levels of, and increasing variability in, measured entry-level technical knowledge, (2) increasing measured levels of, and generally decreasing variabilit...

Research objectives The debate over the career orientations of R&D professionals in terms of their professional research has until now involved two main categories, namely managerial orientation and technical orientation (Allen and Katz, 1986). The compensation and benefits system that corresponds with these categories is the dual ladder, the specialist system found in Japan. The former, “manag...

Software reuse has received much attention since the concept was introduced in 1968. Software reuse itself is a broad concept that has many levels of meaning, ranging from strict code reuse, to design/analysis reuse, to entire application reuse. Reusable software components are designed to apply the power and benefit of reusable, interchangeable parts from other industries to the field of softw...

This research was conducted to investigate the factors contributing to thefailure in the forestry and rangeland by-product cooperative companies in Lorestanprovince, Iran. A descriptive-correlative research design was used. The statisticalpopulations were 1100 people divided into two groups of experts from natural resourceagency in Lorestan province and members of cooperative companies. The sam...

administration of organizations in iran generally is similar with one that uses old management techniques and organizational structures which its roots goes backs to the beginning of 20th century. the functional view and hydraulic structures have caused iranians organizations with low productivity and cooperation. as result, they are involved with unreasonable and fluctuating level of quality, ...