abstract this paper discusses several commonly used models for strategic marketing¹ including market environmental analysis methods (i.e. swot and pest analysis) and strategic marketing tools and techniques (i.e. boston matrix and shell directional policy matrix)and shows how these models may help a firm to achieve its strategic goals. at first, the main reason for doing this research is de...

abstract the current study examined the role of emotional intelligence and motivation on language learning of efl learners in iranian context. the participants of this study were 162 female and 100 male junior high school students. these participants were selected by convenient sampling method. to carry out the study two questionnaires were administered to the participants. first, the adap...

Objective: Study clarifies the effect of greening Porter's competitive advantage in the marketing process by emphasizing the marketing information system. Method: Study used applied developmental and qualitative method. Population included experts and marketing and environmental experts of oil companies, from which 13 samples were selected by targeted snowball method for semi-structured intervi...

the present study was carried on to investigate the use of face-keeping strategies in reaction to complaints by male and female in two different cultures, persian and american english. to see if apology strategies are affected by cultural, contextual preferences and gender of interlocutors in two distinct languages of persian and american english. the hypotheses to be tested were 1) ifids, acce...

the purpose of this study was to investigate how english language teachers in mashhad who teach students in the pre-university cycle perceived the impact of the efltee on their teaching. the target population was nearly all pre-university english language teachers in seven districts of mashhad in the scholastic year 2008/2009. a survey questionnaire which consisted of (36) likert type items, wa...

today the image of a permanent skeletal space of cities affected by some forces or mechanisms is put in time with social-economic development and while imposes a new face and perspective to physical anatomy of cities, and prepares field to changes in content and social- economic structures of cities too. simultaneously with quitting villages in order to settle in cities by villagers, the phen...

Abstract Introduction: For evaluating the quality of e-curriculum in order to improve and   having efficiency in e-learning a suitable and valid model is very important, which is the purpose of this study. Methods: The present study is classified as qualitative research in terms of data collection method. The research population is all of specialists, professors and experts active in the fiel...

In the current economic conditions of the country, retaining knowledge workers is one of the most important future challenges for organization, especially in the knowledge-based organizations. So, this study aimed at designing a knowledge worker turnover model. The mixed method has been used in this research. In order to collect data, three-stage Delphi technique, semi-structured interviews and...