this paper attempts to develop a method for readiness assessment of potential electronic commerce (e-commerce) success of iran’s insurance industry. this method can expand in other industries. key factors impacting e-commerce are identified from wells, d. and thomann, j. (2006) researches. this model is a two-dimension 3*4 matrix. each dimension consists of variables that influence on insurance...

during the last two decades, financial institutions worldwide have witnessed a lot of stress in managing their margins in wake of the new risks, challenges and increase in the competition posed to them by the factors of liberalization and deregulation. the key to create value and achieve competitive edge lies in the better operational efficiency and productivity of these institutions under such...

In spring 2002 two Finnish academics, two professors who were involved in research on e-business expressed their concern regarding the lack of customer orientation in the case of electronic insurance services available on the Internet. They raised a question: “How do insurance companies get electronic services closer to their customers?” This can be considered as the starting point for a discus...

Nowadays, with the presence of technology in the human life, organizational levels have received a lot of changes which affected the operational aspects and the organizational structures from traditional to modern. Therefore, this study investigated the role of technology management to predict operational performance as the most important sources for gaining competitive advantages. It aimed to ...

BACKGROUND In contrast to the enormous importance of work to the life of humans and societies, the working environment has so far played only a minor role in health monitoring. However, increasingly it is realized that work has a strong public health impact and therefore is also a cost factor to modern societies. The aim of the project WORKHEALTH, which is currently being carried out under the ...