92 research outputs found
MEHRAN NEJATI HONOURED BY PUBLONS, RECEIVES CERTIFIED SENTINELS OF SCIENCE AWARD 2016
No full textPENANG, 3 October 2016 – A lecturer at the Graduate School of Business (GSB), Universiti Sains
Malaysia (USM), Dr. Mehran Nejati today received the Certified Sentinels of Science Award 2016 in being
one of the top 10% of researchers contributing to the peer review in the field of Business, Management
and Accounting by Publons
USM LECTURER WINS BEST REVIEWER AWARD IN ANZMAC 2015
No full textPENANG, December 2015 – A Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) lecturer Dr. Mehran Nejati Ajibisheh did
USM proud when he won the Best Reviewer Award in ANZMAC 2015 from the Australian and New
Zealand Marketing Academy
A hybrid approach to achieve organizational agility: An empirical study of a food company
No full textPurpose: In today’s intense global competition, agility is advocated as a fundamental characteristic for business survival and competitiveness. The purpose of this paper is to propose a practical methodology to achieve and enhance organizational agility based on strategic objectives. Design/methodology/approach: In the first step, a set of key performance indicators (KPIs) of the organization being studied are recognized and classified under the perspectives of balanced scorecard (BSC). Critical success factors are then identified by ranking the KPIs according to their importance in achieving organizational strategic objectives using the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS). In the second step, three houses of quality (HOQs) are constructed sequentially to identify and rank the main agile attributes, agile enablers, and improvement paths. In addition, in order to translate linguistics judgments of practitioners into numerical values in building HOQs, fuzzy logic is employed. Findings: The capability of the proposed methodology is demonstrated by applying it to a case of a multi-national food company in Iran. Through the application, the company could find the most suitable improvement paths to improve its organizational agility. Research limitations/implications: A limited number of KPIs were chosen due to computational and visual constraints related to HOQs. Another limitation, similar to other agility studies, which facilitate decision making among agility metrics, was that the metrics were more industry-specific and less inclusive. Practical implications: A strong practical advantage for the application of the methodology over directly choosing agility metrics without linking them is that through the methodology, the right metrics were selected that match organization’s core values and marketing objectives. While metrics may ostensibly seem unrelated or inappropriate, they actually contributed to the right areas where there were gaps between the current and desired level of agility. It would otherwise be impossible to choose the right metrics without a structured methodology. Originality/value: This paper proposes a novel methodology for achieving organizational agility. By utilizing and linking several tools such as BSC, fuzzy TOPSIS, and quality function deployment (QFD), the proposed approach enables organizations to identify the most appropriate agile attributes, agile enablers, and subsequently agile improvement paths
Semantically-enhanced topic recommendation systems for software projects
No full textSoftware-related platforms such as GitHub and Stack Overflow, have enabled their users to collaboratively label software entities with a form of metadata called topics. Tagging software repositories with relevant topics can be exploited for facilitating various downstream tasks. For instance, a correct and complete set of topics assigned to a repository can increase its visibility. Consequently, this improves the outcome of tasks such as browsing, searching, navigation, and organization of repositories. Unfortunately, assigned topics are usually highly noisy, and some repositories do not have well-assigned topics. Thus, there have been efforts on recommending topics for software projects, however, the semantic relationships among these topics have not been exploited so far. In this work, we propose two recommender models for tagging software projects that incorporate the semantic relationship among topics. Our approach has two main phases; (1) we first take a collaborative approach to curate a dataset of quality topics specifically for the domain of software engineering and development. We also enrich this data with the semantic relationships among these topics and encapsulate them in a knowledge graph we call SED-KGraph. Then, (2) we build two recommender systems; The first one operates only based on the list of original topics assigned to a repository and the relationships specified in our knowledge graph. The second predictive model, however, assumes there are no topics available for a repository, hence it proceeds to predict the relevant topics based on both textual information of a software project (such as its README file), and SED-KGraph. We built SED-KGraph in a crowd-sourced project with 170 contributors from both academia and industry. Through their contributions, we constructed SED-KGraph with 2,234 carefully evaluated relationships among 863 community-curated topics. Regarding the recommenders’ performance, the experiment results indicate that our solutions outperform baselines that neglect the semantic relationships among topics by at least 25% and 23% in terms of Average Success Rate and Mean Average Precision metrics, respectively. We share SED-KGraph, as a rich form of knowledge for the community to re-use and build upon. We also release the source code of our two recommender models, KGRec and KGRec+ (https://github.com/mahtab-nejati/KGRec).Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Software Engineerin
The Association Between Environmental Performance and Financial Performance:A Study of the Electricity Generating Companies in Australia and New Zealand
No full textAgility Path Through Work Values in Knowledge-Based Organizations: A Study of Virtual Universities
No full textAll people enter organizations with a formed personality and some initial experiences
and values depending on the culture, which will, in turn, influence their efficiency and performance.
Therefore, great attention must be paid to work values of the employees and the issues which affect
them, especially in organizations that are complex in their structure and culture. Today's dynamic
environment requires organizations to be agile in their processes, with the issue being even more
critical in knowledge-based organizations such as virtual universities. In this research, we identify
the path through which organizations can achieve agility by means of work values. Although there
are many dimensions in work values and organizational agility, using the methodology applied in
th is research, we omit some of these dimensions and find the best methods that will enable man·
agers to wisely invest in the most important issues and get the best results in the path to achieve
agility through work values
An Investigation into the Impact of E-Customs on Stretching Strategic Thinking
No full textChallenges facing the customs organization continuously change its management system in different countries and customs managers face a large number of challenges. Globalization tendencies, in-creased technological developments, customer-orientation, decreased product life cycle, change in product nature, regionalism and competition diversity demand a new form of leadership. The manag-ers, therefore, need to be prepared for administrating changes in dynamic environments. On the other hand, the organizations should also take the necessary actions in order to change and improve the current procedures; otherwise, they will jeopardize their existence and perpetuity because today the existence of organizations is threatened more than ever before. Considering the difficulties and bot-tlenecks of strategic planning, strategic thinking is used today as an important instrument assisting managers to solve problems and promote competitiveness and dynamics. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of establishing e-customs on stretching strategic thinking. It is a survey study in terms of method where the statistical population is composed of all technical experts of IRICA in 2015, i.e. a total number of 650 cases 234 of which were selected through simple-random sampling using Krejcie and Morgan method. Data was collected using a researcher-made questionnaire. Its validity was confirmed through formal validation and its reliability was calculated using Cronbach’s alpha (0.726). All data was analyzed in SPSS 19. According to data analysis results, e-customs affects strategic thinking dimensions with a different influence on every dimension. The results showed that the impact of establishing e-customs on systems thinking, creativity, conceptual thinking, intelligent opportunism, and foresight was 15%, 17%, 17%, 13%, and 22%, respectively. Hence, it is proposed that managers pay special attention to foresight and then to creativity and conceptual thinking in or-ganizations.
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Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Salamzadeh, A., Nejati, M., & Heidaripourafshar. Y. (2015). “An Investigation into the Impact of E-Customs on Stretching Strategic Thinking (Case Study: Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA))”, Journal of Entrepreneurship, Business and Economics, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 105–139
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