development of innovation and organizational learning in order to gain a sustainable competitive advantage and improve organizational performance needs appropriate circumstances under which management leadership styles remain an important factor. therefore, this study aimed to analyze the impact of leadership styles on organizational performance through innovation and learning that was conducte...

  Purpose: This study was designed to investigate the association between knowledge creation and   organizational innovation among the staff of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS).   Materials and Methods: In this descriptive correlational study, 132 individuals from TUMS   employees were randomly selected based on Cochran’s formula. The questionnaires of knowledge   creation managemen...

innovation could be recognized as a key factor in anincreasingly competitive environments and it is difficult to find anindustry that is not engaged in innovation. however, innovation successand achievement to important advantages such as performanceimprovement is not easy and it relies on applying innovation strategiesfrom firms' top managers and consultants. the objective of this paper i...

this paper seeks to trace some of the roots and problems of the rational view of innovation. concentrating primarily upon product innovation, we point out that the eighteenth century notion of social progress in the light of reason has gradually given an enormous impetus to a rational view of product innovation in modern organizations. we summarize several decades of research into management of...

in today's economy of knowledge and globalization, innovation as the ability to apply new knowledge to improve the production process and create new goods and services has been recognized as an undeniable efficiency. a dynamic economy is in need of efficient human capital which includes elites, professionals and entrepreneurs to come up with innovative and competitive ideas. brain drain in some...

Driving innovation and continuous improvement with regard to ecological, environmental and human sustainability is essential for win–win globalization. That calls for research on strategic and monitoring planning to manage globalization and technological and scientific change. This paper describes a new basic function of the university institution ‘to teach students to be critical about any kin...

Cultivating collective innovation while preserving the interest of the individual contributors is one of the main challenges collaborative innovation networks face. This challenge is riddled with difficulties in managing individuals’ co-innovation risks. The first step toward understanding co-innovation risks is the development of a valid and reliable model to measure the actors’ perception of ...

The aim of this article is to review the scientific literature on making sense of war and peacekeeping experiences, and it includes an analysis of empirical studies that examine appraisals of military deployment experiences among veterans. Veterans reported more positive than negative effects in the studies of this review. Furthermore, construing positive meaning from war and peacekeeping exper...

the purpose of this research is to determine indicators for innovation survey in the field of biotechnology in iran. in order to achieve this goal, theoretical basics on innovation survey are required to be studied to reach the needed indicators. finally, with a view to the advantages and weaknesses of the innovation survey procedures and also on the basis of a comparative study in the approach...

introduction: today, human resources are the most important competitive advantage of organizations. therefore, university administrators should be aware of how to effectively use this strategic factor and advantage. however, innovation is also a valuable tool in confronting uncertainty, and responding to and impacting the external environment. the aim of the present study was to determine the s...