ali sorourkhah; Mohsen Imeni
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Purpose: Creative and innovative human resources have a tremendous impact on the survival and improvement of the organization. Management has to pave the way for creativity and innovation. The current research seeks to explain one of the main reasons for the problem of creativity and innovation in Iran's ...
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Purpose: Creative and innovative human resources have a tremendous impact on the survival and improvement of the organization. Management has to pave the way for creativity and innovation. The current research seeks to explain one of the main reasons for the problem of creativity and innovation in Iran's big-size state-owned enterprises with the help of a metaphor (here, Procrustes' bed metaphor).
Methodology: This research has been done in a descriptive-survey way. A questionnaire containing six questions with a Likert scale was designed to investigate the current situation using the help of human resources experts and the Delphi method. Questionnaires were distributed among experts and experts in charge of five big-size state-owned companies, and finally, 124 questionnaires were analyzed descriptively.
Findings: The research findings show that in Iran's state-owned enterprises, the Procrustes bed has become a desk in companies; The freedom of action to present creative and innovative ideas, the possibility of implementing innovative ideas, welcoming new ideas, supportive management, offering rewards to new ideas, and overall, satisfaction with the current state are in an unfavorable situation.
Originality/Value: Following the social sciences and especially structuring and problem-solving approaches, we believe that knowing the problem is the first and most crucial step in solving a problem. Based on this, we introduced Procrustes' bed metaphor in this research to understand the existing problem.
Fatemeh Ashourijirkol; Mehrdad Hosseini Shakib; Abbas khamseh
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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of strategic quality orientation and absorptive capacity on sustainable business growth with the mediating role of innovation.Methodology: This study is categorized as applied and descriptive. The statistical population was all managers ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of strategic quality orientation and absorptive capacity on sustainable business growth with the mediating role of innovation.Methodology: This study is categorized as applied and descriptive. The statistical population was all managers and experts of Shir Pegah Company in Tehran and the sample size was calculated as 207 people based on Morgan and Krejcie's table. The sampling method was simple random sampling and data collection was done by a researcher-made questionnaire. The content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed using an expert's opinion and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Data analysis was performed using the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) method in PLS software.Findings: The findings showed that strategic quality orientation and absorptive capacity, both, have a significant impact on innovation and sustainable business growth in Shir Pegah Company. Innovation has a mediating role in the impact of strategic quality orientation and absorptive capacity on sustainable business growth. Based on findings, companies can focus on strategic quality practices, leadership commitment, employee management, continuous improvement, company quality culture, and focus on customer needs; because it enables them to achieve a high level of exploitation and exploration innovation and sustainable business growth. Because while growing business and exploring exploratory innovation is not easy and requires a lot of resources for organizational learning, harnessing existing capabilities may not lead to sustainable competitive advantage.Originality/Value: The concept of strategic quality orientation is derived from the general principles of total quality management and has a significant impact on the sustainable business performance. Innovation is also recognized as the most important strategic option that can significantly increase the organization's ability to meet the changing needs of customers and changing technology and maintain competitive performance. Given the research gap that has existed in previous studies, this study examines the impact of strategic quality orientation and absorptive capacity on sustainable business growth with the mediating role of innovation in the dairy industry.
Ahmad Sadeghi; Mohammad Khodabakhshi; Zeinab Mir Ghasemi
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of technology orientation on the export performance with emphasis on the mediating role of innovation strategies (exploratory and exploitative) and moderating role of corporate social responsibility.Methodology: This research is a descriptive ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of technology orientation on the export performance with emphasis on the mediating role of innovation strategies (exploratory and exploitative) and moderating role of corporate social responsibility.Methodology: This research is a descriptive correlation study and is one of the structural equation modeling in terms of implementation and data collection method. The statistical population of the study consisted of all manufacturers and exporters of detergent and sanitary products in Iran. According to convenience sampling method, 394 people were considered as statistical sample. For data collecting, a questionnaire with closed questions that containing 22 items was used. Validity of questionnaire was verified by confirmatory factor analysis and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient. For data analyzing, Structural equation modeling and AMOS software were used.Findings: The results of study show that technology orientation, through the mediating role of exploration innovation strategies affect on the manufacturers and exporters of detergent and sanitary products export performance. There is a direct relationship between technology orientation and exploration and exploitation innovation strategies. According to the results, we found that social responsibility has a positive moderating effect on the relationship between the technological orientation of the types of innovation (extraction and exploration). That is, at its higher levels, the intensity of the relationship between technological orientation and different types of innovation is stronger and vice versa.Originality/Value: The technology orientation, through the exploration and exploitation innovation strategies contribute to success of export performance. Accordingly, for success of on the export performance, manufacturers and exporters of detergent and sanitary products can emphasize two strategies of innovation while strengthening the technology orientation strategy.
