Customer involvement has received significant attention in the B2B relationship literature and is identified as an undeniable source of sustainable competitive advantage for manufacturing industries. Our study extends this research stream re-examines between customer new product performance, employing dynamic capability perspective. We hypothesise moderating effects absorptive desorptive capaci...

the paper examines industrial concentration in iranian food products and beverages industries using firm level data aggregated to the 4-digit isic industry level between 2002 and 2004. based on different concentration indices the average level of concentration has increased slightly for the period of study. the empirical results show that increase in the level of concentration is more likely in...

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...

according to the recent literature, the expansion of intra-industry trade increases the intra-industrial excess job reallocation. based on lovely and nelson (2002), this study examined the hypothesis that marginal intra-industry trade has a positive effect on the excess job reallocation in iranian industries. therefore, we have employed a panel technique for iranian manufacturing industries at ...

BACKGROUND Anthropological studies based on highly polymorphic HLA genes provide useful information for bone marrow donor registry, forensic medicine, disease association studies, as well as designing peptide vaccines against tumors, and infectious or autoimmune diseases. OBJECTIVE This study was designed to investigate the genetic relationship of Iranian Arabs and Jews using HLA-class II gen...

generally, developing countries are not able to invest enough on r&d; therefore, they try to get benefit from knowledge spillover, as an external r&d.; this paper tries to investigate the impact of r&d; expenditures and imported intermediate goods, as a proxy for technology imports, on value added of iranian industries. to that end, we use a panel data set of iranian two-digit isic manufacturin...

recently several independent studies have been directed in governmental institutions, as well as the private sector to investigate the technological state of iranian industries, and to evaluate the possibility of utilizing the present facility, for economy reconstruction, sa well as new developments. they have mainly looked upon industial services, and production oriented technologies, with the...

in this study, the impact of internal r&d; expenditure, technology imports and interaction effects between human capital and technology imports on value added of iranian large industries are investigated over the period of 1994-2008. for this purpose, an endogenous growth model is used in which production is a function of labor, capital stock, human capital, internal r&d; expenditure, technolog...