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{"title":"How Psychosocial Indicators Push Millennials to Intend Leaving Their Job: A Study of Generational Differences in Iranian Organizations","authors":"R. Sahraee, H. Abdullah, Fatemh Bagherian","doi":"10.22059/IJMS.2020.308501.674181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22059/IJMS.2020.308501.674181","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, high voluntary turnover intention among Millennials has presented new challenges for organizations although it is unclear how the tendency to leave the organization has varied across generations and is significantly dominant among Millennials. This study aims to examine the effect of psychosocial factors including value, attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control on turnover intention and specifically targets Iranian generations since they have been less studied in the workplace. The current study employed a descriptive cross-sectional survey strategy and randomly sampled 498 full-time workers from a large automotive company in Tehran. The direct assessment of the association between variables showed that extrinsic value has a significant and positive effect on turnover intention while the intrinsic value is not significantly associated with turnover intention. However, indirectly, intrinsic value orientation significantly contributes to a low turnover intention through the mediating effect of attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control, and extrinsic value is related to a high turnover intention through attitude and subjective norm and not through perceived behavioral control. Eventually, Multi-group analysis revealed that the strength and direction of the relationship between value and turnover intention differ depending on generational cohorts in an Iranian social context.","PeriodicalId":51913,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Management Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43139430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Typology of Growth Hacking Strategies along the Growth Hacking Funnel","authors":"D. Feiz, A. Zarei, Morteza Maleki Minbashrazgah, A. Shaabani","doi":"10.22059/IJMS.2020.272362.673453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22059/IJMS.2020.272362.673453","url":null,"abstract":"With the increasing significance of startups recently, practitioners and academicians have considered the growth hacking strategies by which these firms obtain competitive performance gains and bring into the world economy. So far, studies have mostly focused on the technical dimensions of these companies, while the business promotions they require and how they should be leveraged strategically have remained neglected. Thus, the current study attempts to present a qualitative study that could be helpful for explaining growth hacking strategies. We employed a multiple case study approach in this paper and investigated the growth strategies of 13 Iranian startups via semi-structured interviews with their founders. The deductive analyses with above 90% inter-rater reliability of the coders concluded in five groups of growth hacking strategies along the growth hacking funnel of acquisition, activation, revenue, retention, and referral. This study developed a deeper understanding of the significance of growth hacking strategies and the mechanisms by which they leveraged towards strengthening the business value.","PeriodicalId":51913,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Management Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49615708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Media and Sport Participation with Emphasis on Socio-Economic Factors: An Econometric Model with Simultaneous Equations Approach","authors":"Saeed Khanmoradi, S. Zardoshtian, Shahram Fattahi, G. Dickson","doi":"10.22059/IJMS.2020.303936.674096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22059/IJMS.2020.303936.674096","url":null,"abstract":"Media can play an effective role in promoting sports participation by distribution of sports information. Also, sports activities and events are important sources of information for the media. Also, developed countries perform better economically and socially in sports and the media. Therefore, purpose of this study was to investigate the interaction effect of media and sport participation with the emphasis on socio-economic factors. We develop an econometric model with simultaneous equations approach and using the 2SLS method for provinces of Iran between 2004 and 2017. The results showed that there is an interaction, significant, and positive effect between sports media and athletes' sport participation. Also, there is an interaction, significant, and positive effect between athletes' sport participation and non-athlete sport participation (referees and coaches). Sports media has a significant and positive effect on non-athletes sport participation but the effect of non-athletes' sports participation (referees and coaches) on the media was not significant. Also, Consumer Price Index (CPI) of food, clothing, housing and unemployment rate have a significant and negative effect on athletes' sports participation. The effect of GDP on the non-athletes sport participation is significant and positive; finally, the country's population has a significant and positive effect on sports media.","PeriodicalId":51913,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Management Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43993896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Modeling Asset Pricing Using Behavioral variables; Fama-Macbeth Approach","authors":"M. Nasiri, Fatemeh Saraf, N. Nouralahzadeh, M. Hamidian","doi":"10.22059/IJMS.2020.303308.674087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22059/IJMS.2020.303308.674087","url":null,"abstract":"Investors generally make decisions based on risk and stock returns and their decision are influenced by two factors: macroeconomic variables and microeconomic variables. The behavioral factors affecting investment decisions are investigated in the area of behavioral finance. In other words, behavioral finance focuses on specific human behavior attributes and their utilization in asset pricing. Behavioral asset pricing is the result of applying behavioral finance theories within traditional asset pricing theories. In spite of many asset pricing models, due to their weaknesses and incompleteness as well as the necessity to investigate behavioral factors, this study attempts to model asset pricing using behavioral models. The population of the study includes all listed firms in Tehran Stock Exchange over the years 2008 to 2018 and the sample is selected through systematic elimination of the population. Given these conditions, 141 firms are selected as the sample. It is worth mentioning that the hypotheses are tested by designing multivariate regression models. The results show that using FamaMacbeth approach, accounting information risk; investors’ trading behavior and investors' sentiments have a significant and direct impact on firms’ stock returns. Thus, it is argued that behavioral variables can play a significant role in Modeling Asset Pricing.","PeriodicalId":51913,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Management Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42238012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does Implementation of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) has enhanced the Customer Loyalty – an Empirical Research in Banking Sector","authors":"G. Selvalakshmi, S. Suganthi","doi":"10.22059/IJMS.2020.302683.674075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22059/IJMS.2020.302683.674075","url":null,"abstract":"Managing mutual relationship with the customer is a decisive task in every sector. Many earlier research outcomes evidenced this as a major backdrop particularly in the banking industries as they are not using this asset as a competitive advantage for retaining their customers. Taking this as a core issue, this study concentrates in evaluating the consequence of Customer Relationship Management practices on Customer Loyalty with 779 respondents who were the clients of public and private sector banks located in India selected through simple random sampling technique. Various quantitative techniques were carried out and the result emphasized that the CRM has optimistic influence on loyalty through Customer Knowledge Management, Satisfaction and Trust and all were all found as significant drivers to customer’s Trustworthiness. This study has recommended that bankers to provide reliable services and make them satisfied as it is the forerunner for creating loyalty.","PeriodicalId":51913,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Management Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46195294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Designing a Conceptual Framework for Digital Employee Experience","authors":"Yasaman Gheidar, Mehdi Shamizanjani","doi":"10.22059/IJMS.2020.305871.674131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22059/IJMS.2020.305871.674131","url":null,"abstract":"Digital transformation plays a critical role in how organizations do business. To deliver a successful digital transformation and increase productivity, organizations should rethink their digital employee experience (DEX) and improve it. This paper aims to conceptualize the concept of (DEX), identify its components and sub-components, and present a conceptual framework for this concept. This qualitative study, primarily based on a two-phase research methodology. In the first phase, a systematic literature review (SLR) conducted in academic resources and grey literature, and for approving or modifying the result of the first phase of research, the second phase conducted. In the second phase, eleven semi-structured, face to face and long interviews with eleven experts in digital transformation and human resource (HR) areas were held. The outcome of this study is a definition and a framework with eight components and 70 sub-components about DEX. This study will guide organizations to improve DEX in workplaces and rethink their relationship with their employees to survive in the current competitive business environment.","PeriodicalId":51913,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Management Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46613138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Two-Phase Simulation-Based Optimization of Hauling System in Open-Pit Mine","authors":"Milad Abolghasemian, A. G. Kanafi, M. Daneshmand-Mehr","doi":"10.22059/IJMS.2020.294809.673898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22059/IJMS.2020.294809.673898","url":null,"abstract":"One of the key issues in mining is the hauling system. Truck and shovels are the most widely used transportation equipment in mines. In this paper, a two-phase simulation-based optimization is presented to maximize utilization of hauling system in the largest Iranian open-pit copper mine. In the first phase, The OptQuest for Arena software package was used to solve the optimization problem to provide an optimal production quantity. In the second phase, the haulage system problem in the open-pit was modeled by bi-objective optimization programing by means of meta-modeling approach. Meta-modeling approach could estimate the exact total production quantities, and solved the problem by determining the optimal value of shovels using the design of experiments. The efficient solution of the bi-objective problem was obtained using -constraint method. The results of the proposed approach were compared with the current situation, where the total production had increased by 21% (equivalent to 10K tons) through the proposed approach. Therefore, calculations in this mine show that how the proposed framework can improve the production and productivity of haulage system.","PeriodicalId":51913,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Management Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"705-732"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42964019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Organizational Support, Participation in Organizational Decision-Making, Organizational Politics, and Perceived Social Status among Faculty Members: The Mediating Effects of Status Seeking Styles","authors":"H. Khanipour, E. Fathi","doi":"10.22059/IJMS.2020.281430.673636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22059/IJMS.2020.281430.673636","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study was to examine a psychosocial model of predicting perceived social status among faculty members. To this end, 135 faculty members in one of the state universities in Tehran, Iran, were recruited through convenient sampling. We used Perceived Organizational Support Scale (POSS), Perceptions of Organizational Politics Scale (POPS), Participation in Organizational Decisions Making Scale (PODMS), and Dominance and Prestige Scale (DPS) to collect data. Findings showed that 40% of participants believed that social status of academic careers has decreased in Iran since they have entered into their jobs. Perceived organizational support, perceived organizational politics, and participation in decision-making were associated with perceived social status directly and indirectly by the mediating role of prestige-based status-seeking style. The link between perceived organizational politics and perceived social status were negative, but there were positive associations between other factors in model and perceived social status. Then, we might conclude that perceived social status is determined by the quality of organizational support, political atmosphere in organization, participation in organizational decision-making, and prestige-based status-seeking styles. Faculty members with prestige-based status-seeking style had better feelings toward their job as a high social status job, which may facilitate their self- actualization","PeriodicalId":51913,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Management Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"623-644"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41996576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Multiple Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System for Predicting ERP Implementation Success","authors":"I. R. Vanani, B. Sohrabi","doi":"10.22059/IJMS.2020.289483.673801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22059/IJMS.2020.289483.673801","url":null,"abstract":"The implementation of modern ERP solutions has introduced tremendous opportunities as well as challenges into the realm of intensely competent businesses. The ERP implementation phase is a very costly and time-consuming process. The failure of the implementation may result in the entire business to fail or to become incompetent. This fact along with the complexity of data streams has led the researchers to develop a hierarchical multi-level predictive solution to automatically predict the implementation success of ERP solution. This study exploits the strength and precision of the Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) for predicting the implementation success of ERP solutions before the initiation of the implementation phase. This capability is obtained by training the ANFIS system with a data set containing a large number of ERP implementation efforts that have led to success, failure, or a mid-range implementation. In the initial section of the paper, a brief review of the recent ERP solutions as well as ANFIS architecture and validation procedure is provided. After that, the major factors of ERP implementation success are deeply studied and extracted from the previous literature. The major influential implementation factors in the businesses are titled as Change Orchestration (CO), Implementation Guide (IG), and Requirements Coverage (RC). The factors represent the major elements that guide the implementation project to a final success or to a possible failure if mismanaged. Accordingly, three initial ANFIS models are designed, trained, and validated for the factors. The models are developed by gathering data from 414 SMEs located in the Islamic Republic of Iran during a three-year period. Each model is capable of identifying the weaknesses and predicting the successful implementation of major factors. After this step, a final ANFIS model is developed that integrates the outputs of three initial ANFIS models into a final fuzzy inference system, which predicts the overall success of the ERP implementation project before the initiation phase. This model provides the opportunity of embedding the previous precious experiences into a unified system that can reduce the heavy burden of implementation failure.","PeriodicalId":51913,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Management Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"587-621"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48680546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Perceived Social Support (PSS) and Work-Life Balance (WLB) in a Developing Country: The Moderating Impact of Work-Life Policy","authors":"M. Uddin, Kalsom Ali, Mohammad Aktaruzzaman Khan","doi":"10.22059/IJMS.2020.282543.673663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22059/IJMS.2020.282543.673663","url":null,"abstract":"This study, grounded on the Conservation of Resource (COR) theory, examines the role of perceived social support sources and the moderating impact of work-life policy on work-life balance (WLB) among female employees in the context of the Bangladeshi banking industry. Data were collected from 559 female employees from 39 commercial banks located in Dhaka and Chattogram through a questionnaire survey utilizing a multi-stage stratified sampling technique and analyzed applying multiple regression and hierarchical regression techniques. Findings highlight the importance of perceived workplace support, perceived supervisory emotional support, perceived supervisory instrumental support, perceived co-worker emotional support, and perceived family support on WLB of Bangladeshi female bankers. Further, work-life policy moderated the relationship between PFS and WLB. Findings may help the management practitioners, regulators, banking professionals, and researchers to develop a deeper insight of the sources of social support driving WLB and the indirect effect of WLB policies on the relationships between PSS sources and WLB. This research extends the existing literature of WLB by examining the indirect effect of WLB policies on the relationships between PSS sources and WLB applying the COR theory emerging from the W          estern perspective, especially within the South-Asian developing country context.","PeriodicalId":51913,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Management Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"733-761"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43178743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}