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        1 - Analyzing the Impact of Technology Intelligence on Competitive Advantage in the Firm (Case Study: Pharmaceutical Companies)
        Ali Amini
        Introduction: Today, not only is the capability of quick and on time use of information and technological knowledge a big challenge for organizations, but also is the first priority that creates advantage for it. Technology intelligence is the process that provides the More
        Introduction: Today, not only is the capability of quick and on time use of information and technological knowledge a big challenge for organizations, but also is the first priority that creates advantage for it. Technology intelligence is the process that provides the necessary awareness for decision making in the field of technology and helps in acquiring competitive advantage for the firm by gathering and analyzing information and technological knowledge. Methods: This is a descriptive research and its statistical society is all the Iranian companies in the second Iran Pharma exhibition in Tehran in 1395 (193 companies). The questionnaire of this research was distributed among all the participants in the exhibition and 98 correct questionnaires were received. Content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by the experts and its reliability was calculated using Cronbach's alpha. SPSS software was firstly used to analyze the data and then Smart-PLS software was used for structural equations modeling by least partial squares. Results: The results of this research, technology intelligence had a positive impact (β=0.774) and significant (T=18.742>1.96) on the competitive advantage of pharmaceutical companies. Besides confirming the model, the results show that the technology intelligence variable has been able to take 59.8% of the changes in these companies by a impact coefficient of 0.774. Conclusion: According to the findings of this research, it can be said that by utilizing technology intelligence and also its significant positive impact on competitive advantage, one can see the acquisition, improvement, and promotion of competitive advantage in an organization. Manuscript profile
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        2 - Assessment of the behavioral determinants of individual investors in Tehran Stock Exchange based on structural equation modeling
        mohammad hasan Ebrahimi Sarve Olia Jafar Babajani Payam Hanafizadeh Bahram Ebadpour
        Investigation and behavioral finance analysis of investors and market participants nascent field of financial management is one of the topics. Integration can be considered classical economics and sciences of psychology and decision-making. While taking note of the rece More
        Investigation and behavioral finance analysis of investors and market participants nascent field of financial management is one of the topics. Integration can be considered classical economics and sciences of psychology and decision-making. While taking note of the recent developments on the stock exchange, have all the internal and external factors considered in the nuances and micro-sighted, because this process of thought, conscience and mentally very wide variety of people (investors) that has this is a subjective understanding is important for transparency and a better understanding of the market. The importance of this issue more clear that time based on the participants ' stock, half of the stock market trading volume by investors is done and the number of fault component of this field over ninety percent of the active population of the stock market. In fact, this research has scientific literature in the country try to examine the factors influencing the behavior of investors to expand component and thereby a transparent decision making in preparation for the Tehran stock exchange offer. This study is a comprehensive and in-depth study after scientific literature, the primary conceptual framework to the essence of its experts to the Delphi technique is deposited after the third stage of theoretical saturation in Delphi, consensus and convergence is collected pursuant to and answers become the final framework of the study. This study proceeded to survey the essence of method of the Tehran Stock Exchange component of investors about the factors influencing the behavior of the righteous, and structural equation modeling method to finally proceed to the determination and ranking factors and the relationship between determinants of behavior factors on the Tehran Stock Exchange component of the investors. Manuscript profile
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        3 - Assessments of sense of belong in historic area with emphasize on environmental and physical variables (Case study: Arg- Ganjalikhan, Mozafari and Ghaleh Mahmood’s areas in Kerman city)
        Hamid Mohammadi Mitra Ghorbi
        Nowadays the concept sense of place is one of the important issues that the contemporary urban development is facing with. In the past cities used to have the high potential of providing interaction between man and space; but today despite of high potentials in most of More
        Nowadays the concept sense of place is one of the important issues that the contemporary urban development is facing with. In the past cities used to have the high potential of providing interaction between man and space; but today despite of high potentials in most of historic areas, undesirable environmental and physical quality causes weakening of social ties among the inhabitants, lower sense of belonging and gradual decline of these areas. This issue motivated the authors to clarify the relationship between criteria of environment’s quality (environmental and physical) on sense of belonging in historic neighborhoods of the city of Kerman. Questionnaire was the main data collection method, and 374 questionnaires were distributed and analyzed. The results show a direct and meaningful relationship between the physical variables and sense of belonging but reverse and meaningful relationship between environmental variables and sense of belonging. In attention to components of physical variables and sense of belonging, in Arg-Ganjalikhan and Mozafari areas buildings and spaces has the highest effect over sense of belonging. However, in GhalehMahmood area it was accessibility. Regarding the components environmental variables and sense of belonging, it is notable that sound pollutions in Arg-Ganjalikhan, Mozafari and GhalehMahmood areas has the highest influence on the sense of belonging. The results of structural equations modeling also demonstrate that improving the condition of environmental and physical variables can improve the condition of sense of belonging as well. However, the influence of environmental variables on the sense of belonging was higher comparing to physical ones. Manuscript profile