background and objectives: balanced scorecard is an increasingly popular tool for performance evaluation. healthcare organizations have broadly adopted this method for implementing their strategic plans. there is, however, increasing concerns on barriers to balanced scorecard implementation. built on the fundamental impacts of organizational culture on hospital performance, this study explored ...

E-learning has been widely adopted as an important tool for distance education, especially in these days of pandemic Covid-19. However, several problems/challenges have re-ported different processes e-learning that need to be ad-dressed effective use e-learning. These include development student focused contents, giving learner partial control, addressing learning styles, etc . Recently, effort...

The current study investigates performance in two-stage production systems through the measurement of capacity utilization (CU). In short-run, the degree of capacity utilization depends on the ability of decision making units to utilize fixed production factors. To develop this indicator in two-stage production processes, a modified SBM network DEA model is proposed. A numerical example is also...

an investigation into application of the “process book” as an educational tool in architectural design studio within the domain of education, the design process is presumed by educators, as important, if not more, than the final design product. the reason lies in the fact that the very aim of design education is the enrichment of the students’ thinking processes, in their progress from given de...

Background and Objective: Knowledge management is introduced as a key element of quality improvement in organizations. There was no such research in university hospitals of Ahvaz. This study aimed to determine the association between the effectiveness of the processes of knowledge management and the health services quality from the managers' view in the educational hospitals of Ahvaz city. Mate...