there are many problems that usually r & d centers and organizations in the decision making and achieve its higher goals, are faced with.such as the density of information in the administrative departments, human resources information and facilities and equipment. the researcher had to make it investigate effective factors in improving management information systems in private banks accordi...

SUMMARY W ater is needed everywhere to satisfy domestic, agricultural and industrial water demands, to maintain navigation systems, and to preserve healthy and sustainable ecosystems. In order to protect us from floods and to reallocate water resources in a man-made environment, the 'hardware', water-related structures, is constructed in many water systems. However, the 'software', suitable con...

This article develops an integrated model of transmitting strategies and operational activities to enhance the efficiency of supply chain management. As the second objective, this paper aims to improve supply chain performance management (SCPM) by employing proper decision-making approaches. The proposed model optimizes the performance indicator based on SCOR metrics. A process-based method is ...

The aim of the paper is to introduce the novel architecture enabling effective improvement of operational processes in emergency management. For this purpose, the principles of Process Management were used. The architecture, allowing the deployment of comprehensive emergency management operational processes, was developed based on a detailed analysis of the features of emergency management (int...

Although numerous case studies and a body of theoretical work have addressed the open strategy topic (opening the strategy process to wider stakeholders groups) in the literature, approaches to implement open strategic planning has been less studied. In this study, the principles of design science research are employed, and pragmatic presuppositions from Habermas’ theory of discourse and the re...

Over the last decade, studies of management fashions have shown that the rise and fall of the fashions can be seen as a reflection of a knowledge enterprise, where knowledge of new management techniques is selectively proposed, promoted, and propagated by different stakeholders. This research on management fashions has yielded a number of insightful research questions and a set of methods for i...