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The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of information technology (IT) on the productivity and efficiency of manufacturing industries in Iran. So, the data will be collected from 23 Iranian manufacturing industries during “2002–2006” and the methods such as DEA and panel data used to study the subject. Results obtained by the above two methods represent that IT has a positive and statisti...

the concept of countervailing power is a term to describe the situation in which the market power of one side (sellers) may be balanced by the market power of another side(buyers) in a given market. the purpose of this paper is to test this hypothesis and to determine whether the market power of sellers has had a restraining influence on increases in buyer market power in iran’s large industrie...

factor demand behavior such as energy demand has an important role in the economic analysis. this issue is a major concern in the developing countries (e.g. iran) which are benefited from vast energy resources. in this paper, the third generation of factor demand models is used to analyze the behavior of capital adjustment in the iranian manufacturing industries. the dataset covers the two-digi...

dumbells, barbells, and other early resistance apparati in unexpected Halteres varied greatly in appearance and composition during the era modern historians refer to as Ancient Greece. Accordplaces. In some instances, the printed references were surprising because of the early date at which they were published. In other ing to John Blundell’s The Muscles and Their Story, published in 1864, the ...

Purpose: Industrial training is a program that aims to provide supervised within particular time frame which can be carried out either in the private sector or government organizations. Research methodology: The data were analyzed using statistical package for prediction. Results: It was observed from view of lecturers industrial improved student’s skills formal and informal communication, help...

Due to high levels of investment required in the implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and considerable differences in ERP adoption results, substantial research attention has been devoted to exploring critical success factors (CSFs) concerning ERP implementation. Little attention, however, has been paid to the mechanisms of how these factors influence successful ERP im...