Firms are experimenting with numerous different best practices in order to improve the timeliness and effectiveness of their new product development (NPD) process. This paper examines how widely adopted certain best practices are, if the adoptions show any pattern in terms of being simultaneously adopted within organizations, and what impact these best practices have on NPD performance. The mai...

the aim of the current study was to explain the way culture influences the development of children based on the theory of developmental niche. for this, a library based method was conducted. the current research concluded that culture organizes the environmental factors influencing child development. hence, organized factors impact development more likely than unorganized ones. the theory gives...

This research study was an attempt to explore hidden cultural components in an ELT textbook from Oxford University Press (OUP) titled 'Cover to Cover'. Two research methodologies were relied on to unveil the western ideologies in this series: Firstly, a qualitative review over its reading textbooks was undertaken for authenticating the hidden western values for Iranian contexts. At this stage, ...

today, the human resources are the assets of any organization and their unique role in the development of the organization, whether indoor or outdoor environment and competition is evident. on the other hand, if an organization fails to satisfy its human resources, in this case it would be doomed to stay away from progress and development. in this context, organizations using hrm tools can keep...

This paper presents intermediate results from a study of issues which influence shaping of information systems development (ISD) practices in systems and software development organizations. In line with previous research, the target organizations of our study tend to create local development practices by picking individual practices from (possibly different) methods combined with emergent pract...

Teacher professional development, as a burgeoning term, has attracted a surge of interest in English language teaching. In second language (L2) professional development, the common orthodoxy has been one which considers teachers as that of knowledge consumers. It is commonly argued that top-down approaches to teachers’ professional development has done little to maximize teachers’ professionali...