Monireh Akbari; Mahdi Mahmoodzadeh Vashan; Hossein Hakimpour
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This study aimed to identify the factors affecting security and privacy in the development of virtual banking in Iran using a thematic pluralistic research methodology. First, the elements constituting cooperation were identified in a library study. Then, in-depth interviews were conducted with 20 scholars ...
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This study aimed to identify the factors affecting security and privacy in the development of virtual banking in Iran using a thematic pluralistic research methodology. First, the elements constituting cooperation were identified in a library study. Then, in-depth interviews were conducted with 20 scholars and academic experts to extract the elements and group them according to the theme analysis method. The output was the identification of 27 indicators in two main categories and six subcategories. The convergent and divergent validity methods were used to determine the validity whose results were optimal. The results show that the effectiveness of security and privacy in developing virtual banking in Iran depends on the development of a comprehensive plan and attention to the future needs of the banking system, which will create satisfaction. So, it is necessary to develop general policies for reforming the banking system in the future. Also, according to the experts, customers’ satisfaction with the quality of the banking services, their trust in these services, and the ease of using them are the strengths of the virtual banking services and can be handled for attracting more customers and improving competitiveness in the virtual banking industry. On the other hand, customers’ need for e-services in the modern world is unavoidable. In cyberspace, the e-services of banks have become one of the fastest and most valid ways of financial transactions whose key requirement is trust in these services.
Mohammad saeid Kiani; Leila Nazari
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Purpose: The purpose of conducting research was the effect of information and new technologies in attracting customers to sports venues in Kermanshah province.Method: According to the official statistics of the medical board, about 40,000 people are mentioned in the province's sports statistics community. ...
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Purpose: The purpose of conducting research was the effect of information and new technologies in attracting customers to sports venues in Kermanshah province.Method: According to the official statistics of the medical board, about 40,000 people are mentioned in the province's sports statistics community. The present research is applied research that is descriptive in terms of strategy and survey in terms of implementation. Data collection was done by field method and through a questionnaire. The statistical population was all customers of sports facilities in Kermanshah province. Based on Cochran's formula, 560 people were selected as a statistical sample. To collect information, Moghimi's (2010) mixed marketing questionnaires were adapted, and information technology and attracting research-made customers were used. The structural equation path analysis method was used to analyze the findings.Findings: Findings indicate that the fit of the structural model of t-coefficients for all research relationships greater than 1.96 can be confirmed by the appropriateness of the fit of the structural equation model.Conclusion: In general, it can be acknowledged that the combination of marketing and the use of information technology directly affects the process of attracting customers to sports venues, so it is recommended that managers use these strategies to highlight the competitive advantages of sports venues through the use of space. Put physical and virtual on the agenda.
Digital Content Management
Masoud Ahmadi Ahmadi; ahmad sami; Changiz Mohammadizadeh
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The current research was conducted with the aim of validating the structural model of open data governance in line with the health of the administrative system in e-government in government organizations. This research was based on a practical purpose and based on a descriptive survey implementation ...
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The current research was conducted with the aim of validating the structural model of open data governance in line with the health of the administrative system in e-government in government organizations. This research was based on a practical purpose and based on a descriptive survey implementation method. The statistical population of the research included the managers of the country's tax affairs organization and several university professors, all of whom (18 people) were selected as a statistical sample. Also, the data collection tool in this research was a researcher-made questionnaire, and confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling and Smart Pls software were used for data analysis. The results of the research showed that the structural model of open data governance in the direction of administrative health in e-government in government organizations includes 6 components of platforms (with the dimensions of intra-organizational platforms and external platforms), strategies (with the dimensions of common strategies (internal and external), intra-organizational strategies and extra-organizational strategies), intervening conditions (with common dimensions (internal-external), internal and external), causal category (with dimensions of internal-external organizational factors, individual and social factors), central category and consequences (with Common dimensions (internal and external), internal and external).
Manish Kumar
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This book primarily personified the diversified academic, research and professional developmental activities undertaken by the author while working on various capacities and platforms. The distinctive presentation of thought contents in the domain of library and information science, education, research ...
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This book primarily personified the diversified academic, research and professional developmental activities undertaken by the author while working on various capacities and platforms. The distinctive presentation of thought contents in the domain of library and information science, education, research and management will inspire, aspire and motivate the knowledge workers, educationists, scientists, managers, policy-makers, thinkers and researchers to think out of the box and work differently especially in adverse environment. Throughout the chapters author shared his rich personal and professional experiences gained while working in various segments which are supported by exemplary instances with appropriate pictorial presentations. The Author believes that his painstaking task in completion of this distinctive style of monograph will be found worthwhile when the prospective readers find this book useful and bring positive changes about in their personal thinking and implementing the change in their professional career.
Nasim Rahmani; Shadan Vahabzadeh Munshi; Hormoz Mehrani
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This study aims to design a local model of social responsibility in digital marketing in small online retail businesses in Iran. The present research is applied in terms of purpose and a qualitative research in terms of data collection method. The statistical population in the qualitative ...
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This study aims to design a local model of social responsibility in digital marketing in small online retail businesses in Iran. The present research is applied in terms of purpose and a qualitative research in terms of data collection method. The statistical population in the qualitative section included 11 experts. The main tools for data collection in the field included semi-structured interviews. The grounded theory approach using MAXQDA software was adopted to analyze qualitative data and present a paradigm model. Based on the results of qualitative analysis, six categories of factors were identified including causal conditions, underlying factors, strategies, pivotal phenomena, intervening factors and consequences . Targeted marketing was identified as the main category in relation to the context. In relation to causal conditions, two main categories were identified, including moral responsibility and environmental responsibility. In relation to digital marketing as a central phenomenon of research, the indicators of giving customers the right to choose, retaining customers, providing services in accordance with customer demands, establishing appropriate relationships and relationships with customers, and creating value for customers were identified. Commercialization strategies were identified as the main category of strategies and actions. Competitiveness of companies has been identified as the most important intervening factors; and economic development and service quality improvement were identified as the main categories of outcomes.
Digital Content Management
Badralsadat Sahafi
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Technological development plays a key role in the development, continuity and survival of an organization and through this advancement, organizations continue to develop and get upgraded. Therefore, instruction of digital technology to the staff has an essential role in the efficiency of organizations. ...
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Technological development plays a key role in the development, continuity and survival of an organization and through this advancement, organizations continue to develop and get upgraded. Therefore, instruction of digital technology to the staff has an essential role in the efficiency of organizations. Despite the significance of all the other relevant components in an organization, digital education and training plays a key role in the development of organizations. The more knowledgeable, creative and dynamic the staff within an organization are, the higher will be its power and dynamism, hence assuring the sustainable development of the organization. In this article, an attempt has been made to show the effects of digital technology training on organizational development in order to achieve practical results. In fact, As organizations and the organizational changes become more complex, employees and especially managers must use digital training opportunities to equip themselves with new capabilities, attitudes and knowledge to play active roles in the organization’s creative decision-making processes. Obviously, in today's fast changing industrial world, traditional training is not enough to meet the training needs of employees and manage complex organizations tasks. Therefore, newer and more appropriate models and methods such as digital education and learning should be used to train transformative, entrepreneurial and creative employees and managers.
Maryam Moghadami
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Libraries have long been involved in content management due to their mission and task, but with the advent of the digital age, this content has changed from print to digital. Digital content management is related to storing, organizing, indexing and monitoring digital content used by an organization. ...
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Libraries have long been involved in content management due to their mission and task, but with the advent of the digital age, this content has changed from print to digital. Digital content management is related to storing, organizing, indexing and monitoring digital content used by an organization. Digital content can take many forms, including text files, documents, graphics, images, animations, and audio and video files. This book is a handbook consisting of 15 chapters in the field of research on digital content management and development in libraries, elaborating on various areas such as: Consortia, Digital Libraries, Digital Resource Management, EResources, Information Retrieval, Knowledge Management, Open Access, Repositories, RFID Technology. Even so, in this book, the research topics mentioned have not been studied in depth. In my opinion, considering the thematic importance of the book, it would be better to address newer research topics such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, digital twins, virtual reality, research data management, etc. It is suggested that a new collection consisting of the chapters of the proposed areas be compiled.
Shadi Abdoli
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Big Data and Management Science has been designed to synthesize the analytic principles with business practice and Big Data. Specifically, the book provides an interface between the main disciplines of engineering/technology and the organizational, administrative, and planning abilities of management. ...
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Big Data and Management Science has been designed to synthesize the analytic principles with business practice and Big Data. Specifically, the book provides an interface between the main disciplines of engineering/technology and the organizational, administrative, and planning abilities of management. It is complementary to other sub-disciplines such as economics, finance, marketing, decision, and risk analysis.The recent advances in handling large data have led to increasingly more data being available, leading to the advent of Big Data. The volume of Big Data runs into petabytes of information, offering the promise of valuable insight. Visualization is the key to unlocking these insights; however, repeating analytical behaviors reserved for smaller data sets runs the risk of ignoring latent relationships in the data, which is at odds with the motivation for collecting Big Data.This book focuses on the analytic principles of business practice and big data. Specifically, it provides an interface between the main disciplines of engineering/technology and the organizational and administrative aspects of management, serving as a complement to books in other disciplines such as economics, finance, marketing, and risk analysis. The contributors present their areas of expertise, together with essential case studies that illustrate the successful application of engineering management theories in real-life examples.
Najmeh Nazeri
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“Collective Rights and Digital Content: The Legal Framework for Competition, Transparency and Multi-Territorial Licensing of the New European Directive on Collective Rights Management” is a part of Springer Briefs in Law book series written by Cláudio Lucena, a Brazilian researcher ...
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“Collective Rights and Digital Content: The Legal Framework for Competition, Transparency and Multi-Territorial Licensing of the New European Directive on Collective Rights Management” is a part of Springer Briefs in Law book series written by Cláudio Lucena, a Brazilian researcher at Paraíba State University. This book published at 2015, and divided to 5 chapters. At the first chapter we have an introduction and the last one is the Conclusion. Thanks to digital technologies wide growth social, cultural, and economic interaction is completely transformed.The impact of collaboration tools in the activity of creating intellectual content transformed the way collective management organizations operate and current market requirements demand legal adaptation to face this new realityThe last conclusion in this book emphasizes on necessity of global copyright database’s formation, which is based on European legal and cultural matter. While non-European areas are completely deferent and it would be a great challenge. These countries also need to be examined in terms of their own cultural, political, economic and technical infrastructure, then we would have a real global copyright database.
Hasan Najafi; Muslim Ghobadian; Ebrahim Pour Hosseini
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The present study was aimed at providing a smart model of professional development of second high school principals in Tehran province. This study was based on a combined strategy of successive explorations. The research method was qualitative case study and in the form of content analysis. The ...
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The present study was aimed at providing a smart model of professional development of second high school principals in Tehran province. This study was based on a combined strategy of successive explorations. The research method was qualitative case study and in the form of content analysis. The selection of the sample in the qualitative section was made by a targeted sampling method with a criterion-based technique. The sample size was up to 20 people emerging in order. The data collection tool consisted of two sections, semi-structural interviews in the field and a review of upstream documents and training documents in the library section, and data analysis in the qualitative section based on the content analysis using ATLASTI software. The quality of this study was observed, from the point of view of experts , and 6 dimensions and 29 components were considered in the professional development of second high school principals. The identified dimensions are educational, research, service, ethical, cultural, and executive. This is not only an evaluation of the candidates for the second-high school administrative candidates in the field, but also the role of a way to promote the material and the competence of these scholars. Due to the limited resources of some organizations, it is not possible to set up an office or deputy for the subject of digital transformation.
Digital Content Management
Elia Borhanzadeh; Reza Vaezi; Habibollah Roodsaz; Ghodsi Bayat
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Purpose: The present study aimed to improve the quality of delivering government services by identifying the main components of the personalization of the m-government in Iran.
Method: Qualitative approach and exploratory research is applied. Data is gathered by targeted sampling and semi-structured ...
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Purpose: The present study aimed to improve the quality of delivering government services by identifying the main components of the personalization of the m-government in Iran.
Method: Qualitative approach and exploratory research is applied. Data is gathered by targeted sampling and semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis technique was used to analyze the interviews.
Findings: The research findings indicate that the personalization of mobile government in Iran includes 5 main themes and 16 sub-themes including social factors (e-services, e-participation), e-factors (productivity, policy making), managerial factors (accountability, human capital, transparency), political factors (e-legislation, information technology infrastructure), cultural factors (e-support, e-learning).
Conclusions: Experts emphasized on managerial factors like accountability and transparency of government activities. Also cultural factors are very important as digital literacy of society is very important in this regard. On the other hand regular review and update of current laws of ICT infrastructures and security policies should be considered as important by government. Also targeted filtering by personal information will make citizens more satisfied to receive updated information and related services based on their needs and preferences.
Saheb Ahmadi; Jafar Gharemani; Yadolah AbbasZadeh Sahroun
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The purpose of this study is to provide a conceptual framework for the e-learning system of higher education institutions in the Iran, based on the views of experts related to the field of e-learning at the level of higher education institutions and prioritizing factors over each other. The present study ...
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The purpose of this study is to provide a conceptual framework for the e-learning system of higher education institutions in the Iran, based on the views of experts related to the field of e-learning at the level of higher education institutions and prioritizing factors over each other. The present study is applied in terms of purpose; It is descriptive-exploratory in terms of how data is collected and qualitative in terms of the nature of the data. Accordingly, in order to collect qualitative data, after reviewing the literature related to the research topic, a framework was developed to ask questions of interviews with experts. Then, using purposive sampling method (snowball), the opinions of 15 experts up to the theoretical saturation stage were used. The interviews were coded using Clark and Brown six-step inductive theme analysis. Accordingly, the identified speech evidence from the interview text was labeled in the form of 53 initial codes. Then, the initial codes were drawn in the form of 12 sub-themes and then, three main themes including specialized requirements of e-education system, general requirements of e-education system, results and consequences of e-education system, classification and conceptual conceptual framework of e-education system of higher education institutions. Then, in order to validate the results of the interviews and confirm the components of the research conceptual framework, the fuzzy Delphi questionnaire and method were used and in order to prioritize the components of the research conceptual framework, the fuzzy hierarchy questionnaire and process (FAHP) were used. Based on the results of the research in the Delphi section, all 12 sub-themes or questions of the Delphi questionnaire were approved by the research experts. The results of fuzzy hierarchical analysis also showed that the technical requirements of e-learning have the highest priority among the specialized requirements, followed by the quality requirements of the education system, support requirements, requirements related to professors, requirements for educational quality and related requirements. With students, they are in the next ranks. Also, achieving effectiveness is the highest priority among the general requirements of the e-learning system, followed by satisfaction, optimal use and utilization, in the next ranks. In addition, saving time and money is the highest priority. Among the factors and then the development of learning and integration of education, are in the next ranks.
Digital Content Management
Rahim Vejdan; Morteza Hazrati * (corresponding author); Badri Abbasi; Mousa Rezvani Chaman Zamin; Mehran Nasirzad
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The main goal of the current research is to design a model of human resource capabilities with emphasis on knowledge management (relying on digital information management) in Iran Oil Terminals Company. This research is descriptive-survey research in terms of research implementation method, cross-sectional ...
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The main goal of the current research is to design a model of human resource capabilities with emphasis on knowledge management (relying on digital information management) in Iran Oil Terminals Company. This research is descriptive-survey research in terms of research implementation method, cross-sectional research in terms of time, and applied research in terms of purpose and is in the category of exploratory research. The statistical sample of this research included 20 professors and senior managers of the Ministry of Oil in the qualitative part and 100 people in the quantitative part including the managers and experts of Iran Oil Terminals Company. For data collection in the qualitative section, interview tools and data analysis techniques were utilized, while in the quantitative section, questionnaires and structural equation modeling techniques were used. The results of the analysis showed that the capabilities of human resources, with an emphasis on knowledge management (based on digital information management), include behavioral capabilities, specialized-technical capabilities, and analytical capabilities. In the end, a suitable model for the capabilities of human resources, emphasizing knowledge management (based on digital information management), was presented in Iran Oil Terminals Company.
hamid Poorahmadi Hooshmand; Hossein Budaghi Khajeh Nobar; Parvaneh Gelard; Reza Rostamzadeh
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate online marketing tools and provide a model to improve sales performance. This qualitative research is applied in terms of purpose. Subjects in qualitative research are people living in the cities of Nowshahr, Chalous, and Tonekabon, whose sample size in the qualitative ...
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate online marketing tools and provide a model to improve sales performance. This qualitative research is applied in terms of purpose. Subjects in qualitative research are people living in the cities of Nowshahr, Chalous, and Tonekabon, whose sample size in the qualitative section includes knowledgeable interviewees in the field of online business. The data collection tool was purposeful and MAXQDA software was used for data analysis. In a small phase, the subjects were Caspian littoral consumers in the field of online business, about 400 of whom were selected to collect data from them. The AMOS and EXCEL have been used to test the hypotheses of structural model equations, and perform Dematel analysis. The results showed that the amount of for e-services and electronic security was negative, which indicates the influence (disability variable) of the above factors in the conceptual model of the research. Also, the rate for electronic advertising and electronic support is more than zero, which indicates the effectiveness (cause variable) of these factors. The calculated value shows that the order of importance of the five indicators in the present research model is: 1- Electronic services 2- Electronic support 3- Electronic customer orientation 4- Electronic advertising 5- Electronic security. The results show that five indicators (e-services, e-security, e-support, e-advertising, and e-customer orientation) are components and tools of online marketing to improve sales performance.The results showed that the amount of E_j for e-services and electronic security was negative, which indicates the influence (disability variable) of the above factors in the conceptual model of the research. Also, the E_j rate for electronic advertising and electronic support is more than zero, which indicates the effectiveness (cause variable) of these factors.The calculated P_i value shows that the order of importance of the five indicators in the present research model is: 1- Electronic services 2- Electronic support 3- Electronic customer orientation 4- Electronic advertising 5- Electronic security.The results show that five indicators (e-services, e-security, e-support, e-advertising, and e-customer orientation) are components and tools of online marketing to improve sales performance.
Tayebeh Khajeh; Alireza Isfandyari Moghaddam; Behrooz Bayat; Fariborz Doroudi
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Purpose: libraries of medical sciences universities have much more diverse goals and services beyond public imagination, so providing services related to information resources is one of the most important challenges facing these organizations. Methodology: This study is descriptive-analytical based on ...
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Purpose: libraries of medical sciences universities have much more diverse goals and services beyond public imagination, so providing services related to information resources is one of the most important challenges facing these organizations. Methodology: This study is descriptive-analytical based on its purpose, application, and method of providing information. Study used the semi-structured interview method to obtain the factors affecting the provision of health information resources services. Sampling was conducted based on purposeful method and experts’ viewpoints. Researcher-made questionnaire was used to check the factors obtained from 62 central libraries of medical sciences. Findings: In general, 6 types of services including tools for exploring the online book registration network, selection tools, interlibrary loan, free educational tools, additional book publishing tests and content evaluation determined as health information resource services in specific central libraries and 8 factors of providing services specialized bibliographic review by librarians, services in the form of consultation to users, dissemination and provision of selective information services on Persian and Latin sources, overcoming the weaknesses of librarians without library education, increasing the diversity of medical science library services, using new technologies to compensate for deficiencies and lack of resources, improving the social function of the library as a social institution and various electronic services such as databases and digital resources identified as the factors influencing the provision of health information resources.Conclusion: Various factors may affect the provision of health information resources services in universities of medical sciences, the most important factors include improving the social functions of libraries.
Zeinab Papi
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Objective: The purpose of this study was analytical review of the book Designing the Digital Library, written by Mehdi Alipoor-Hafezi and published by SAMT in 2019 based on the criteria and standards of the university textbooks. The type of research was applied in terms of purpose. As regarded ...
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Objective: The purpose of this study was analytical review of the book Designing the Digital Library, written by Mehdi Alipoor-Hafezi and published by SAMT in 2019 based on the criteria and standards of the university textbooks. The type of research was applied in terms of purpose. As regarded method, it was a mixed-method approach. The analysis, review and extraction of required data have been simultaneous. The checklist was used for assessing formal writing structure and content features on a Likert-type 5-pointed scale. Author's expertise in the field can be mentioned as the main advantage of the book. The textbook is the only work in Persian in the field of designing digital libraries. A separate chapter on legal issues in digital libraries can also be considered as another positive point of this work. At the same time, this work has also notable points for improvement, the most important of which are writing points. In general, the work in hand in terms of evaluation of formal writing structure and content criteria received scores of 46, 46, 63 and 63, respectively and achieved at least 70 percentage points, passing as a book appealing to its audience. In spite of some defects and weaknesses, the studied textbook is one of few books on designing digital libraries and suitable for students and audience.
Digital Content Management
fahimeh kokabi Boroujerdi; Majid Jahangir Fard; Ali Mehdizadeh; Farshad Haj Alian
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The aim of this study was to provide a model of organizational vitality with a positive organizational behavior approach in the digital management era (Meta-synthesis approach). For this purpose, the results and findings of the previous research have been systematically evaluated and analyzed with the ...
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The aim of this study was to provide a model of organizational vitality with a positive organizational behavior approach in the digital management era (Meta-synthesis approach). For this purpose, the results and findings of the previous research have been systematically evaluated and analyzed with the approach of qualitative research and meta-synthesis tool (based on data mining) which includes seven steps. In this method, by searching the keyword of organizational vitality with a positive organizational behavior approach (based on data mining) in various databases, initially 2151 works were found in the time period of 2011 to 2019 AD and 1391 to 1399 (Persian calendar), of which 1468 works were based on title, 429 works in terms of abstract and 217 works in terms of text did not match the purpose and questions of the present research; These works were set aside, and only 37 works, which were in the field of organizational vitality with a positive organizational behavior approach in the age of digital management and were aligned both in terms of title and content with the objectives and research questions of this study, were selected for analysis using meta-synthesis analysis and presentation of a organizational vitality model with a positive organizational behavior approach in the digital management era. By studying and carefully examining the finalized sources; The components and indicators of organizational vitality were extracted with the approach of positive organizational behavior in the age of digital management.
Digital Content Management
Hamidreza Radfar
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Purpose: The purpose of this research is to study the status of digital content management in the IHCS, from preparation and production, organization to dissemination of content.
Methodology: The main nature of the present research is applied and the method of conducting this research is a case study. ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this research is to study the status of digital content management in the IHCS, from preparation and production, organization to dissemination of content.
Methodology: The main nature of the present research is applied and the method of conducting this research is a case study. In order to investigate the situation of IHCS in the field of digital content management with a case perspective, a descriptive survey was conducted. The research community in this work is the IHCS and all its departments, activities, systems and programs that work in the direction of preparation, production and development, organization and dissemination of digital content. Tables have been used to describe and analyze the data collected from the checklist.
Findings: Various types of digital content are prepared and produced in different departments of the IHCS. The priority is to choose digital content in the research institute with books, documents and publications. Among the various departments of the IHCS, the library is the only one that organizes its digital content in a standard format. The digital content prepared, produced or developed in the IHCS are disseminated through various tools and methods, especially through websites, social networks and library services.
Conclusion: In general, the movement towards the preparation and production of content in digital form is visible in the IHCS, and efforts are being made to organize and disseminate all types of digital content in the form of various systems.
Mohammad Hassanzadeh
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Digital content creation is being carried out in different ways in cyberspace and using different platforms by professionals and the general public. But effective content accounts for a small percentage of all content produced and published. Creating value from digital content requires proper management ...
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Digital content creation is being carried out in different ways in cyberspace and using different platforms by professionals and the general public. But effective content accounts for a small percentage of all content produced and published. Creating value from digital content requires proper management based on professional competencies. In fact, digital content management as a professional task requires specific competencies. In this paper, with a process-oriented perspective, the components of a professional competency framework for digital content management are identified and presented. This content can be a good starting point for extensive research in the field of professional competencies for digital content management.
Samira Zare Asl; Mohammad Kiamehr
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of ethics-oriented leadership and political skills of digital organizational developments on accounting students' perceptions. Method: The study population in this study was accounting students in Shiraz. The statistical population of this ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of ethics-oriented leadership and political skills of digital organizational developments on accounting students' perceptions. Method: The study population in this study was accounting students in Shiraz. The statistical population of this study includes all accounting students in Shiraz, whose number is 850 people. The number of samples was 265 based on the Morgan table. 400 questionnaires were distributed electronically and randomly and 265 questionnaires were selected. After data collection, structural equations were analyzed using SPSS and SMART PLS software. Findings: Based on the results, ethical leadership has a positive and significant relationship with accounting students' perception of leadership effectiveness. Political skills have a negative and significant relationship with accounting students' perception of leadership effectiveness. Machiavellianism mediates the role of leadership in the relationship between ethical leadership and accounting students' perceptions of leadership effectiveness. Machiavellianism has an increasing mediating role in political skills and accounting students' perceptions of leadership effectiveness. Conclusion: This article is practical. Therefore, its main contribution is to clarify the discussion about the impact of digital transformation in the accounting sector and the importance of accounting ethics in the digital age. Nevertheless, the results can be interesting for researchers, policymakers, teachers, professional institutions, and accounting professionals.
Saghar Zarinkamar; Azam Rahimi Nik; Abbas Heydari
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Purpose: The development of e-commerce and online shopping has given rise to emerging concepts of consumer behavior, including webrooming. Due to the novelty of the concept of webrooming in this study, an attempt has been made to provide a conceptual framework to explain this behavior and the factors ...
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Purpose: The development of e-commerce and online shopping has given rise to emerging concepts of consumer behavior, including webrooming. Due to the novelty of the concept of webrooming in this study, an attempt has been made to provide a conceptual framework to explain this behavior and the factors affecting its formation.Method: In this regard, a field survey study was conducted by distributing questionnairy among a sample consisting of 384 gold and jewelry customers in Tehran. The questionnaires consisting of 9 dimensions and 38 items were distributed among the members of the statistical sample after ensuring reliability and validity. Data analysis along with partial least squares technique and Smart PLS software were used.Findings: According to the results, the benefits of online and offline channels have a significant impact on webrooming attitude; It was also discovered that attitude, perceived risk, anticipated regret, subjective norms and behavioral control have a significant impact on behavioral inclination and webrooming.Conclusion: The results of goodness of fit showed that the proposed model in this research has a good validity and fit. Given that webrooming has a negative impact on online sales; the results help online retailers mitigate this phenomenon by targeting webrooming antecedents.
Leila Khalili; Nayana Darshani Wijayasundara
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Purpose: Hacking the human brain and manipulating human trust to obtain information and get monetary gains is called social engineering. This study aims to visualize and analyze the co-authorship networks in the Scopus citation database's social engineering research from 1926 to 2020. Method: The ...
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Purpose: Hacking the human brain and manipulating human trust to obtain information and get monetary gains is called social engineering. This study aims to visualize and analyze the co-authorship networks in the Scopus citation database's social engineering research from 1926 to 2020. Method: The present quantitative study used the bibliometric method and social network analysis. The study collected data from the Scopus database. A total number of 1994 records were taken as the sample of the study. Researchers used descriptive and inferential statistics and social network analysis to obtain results; to do this, different software types were used in the study (SPSS, Microsoft Excel, Text Statistics Analyzer, ISI.exe, Pajek, and VOSviewer). Findings: The findings indicate the top three sources of publishing and the related subject areas. Furthermore, the top three core authors and countries were identified. Also, the authors with high centrality measures in the co-authorship networks were identified. A large majority of papers had only one author. The Collaborative Coefficient among researchers was 0.36. Based on the results of Spearman's test, there was a significant association between the number of documents, the number of citations, and the rate of total link strength of the countries. Likewise, there was a positive and high significant association between degree and closeness centralities. Conclusion: The researchers' frequently used keywords in this area were social engineering, phishing, and information security; in addition, the frequency of keywords was not compatible with Zipf’s Law. A small sample of keywords will not properly follow Zipf’s distribution.
Seyedeh Maryam Tayebi Masoleh; Kambiz Poushaneh; Ali Akbar Khosravi Babadi; Hamid Reza Reza zaheh; Ahmad Ramezani
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Purpose: The aim of this study is to model a citizenship education curriculum for students with special needs for digital citizenship education.Method: The qualitative methodology of the grounded theory approach has been used. The statistical population is experts and specialists in special curriculum ...
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Purpose: The aim of this study is to model a citizenship education curriculum for students with special needs for digital citizenship education.Method: The qualitative methodology of the grounded theory approach has been used. The statistical population is experts and specialists in special curriculum planning and experts of exceptional organizations. Sampling was performed using the non-probabilistic judgmental (targeted) method. Interviews were conducted with research samples. To sample, the snowball method was used and the interview was conducted in a semi-structured manner with open and general questions for up to 15 people to saturate the data, but for more assurance, up to 24 people were interviewed. Finally, the factors were identified using the foundation data technique using Atlas ti software. An in-depth interview was used as the main data collection tool at this stage.Findings: Based on the obtained results, a total of 106 concepts and 21 categories or open-source codes were identified and extracted. The 21 identified categories were divided into 6 main datasets of the foundation.Among the identified factors, the axial coding paradigm was performed and based on that, the linear relationship was determined between research categories including causal conditions, axial categories, contextual conditions, intervening conditions, strategies, and consequences.Conclusion: The results show the importance of the content of citizenship education and training methods. Regarding teaching and learning methods, the formation of informal groups and monitoring of the activities of groups, learning in practice, and student-centered and participatory teaching methods are emphasized.
Ahmad Shamsi; Alireza Shirvani; Mashallah Valikani
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Purpose: In the present research the relationship between the dimensions of mental image, brand awareness and brand recognition in attracting customers, has been investigated and analyzed with marketing of electronic services (the case study of Iran Postbank) especially taken ...
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Purpose: In the present research the relationship between the dimensions of mental image, brand awareness and brand recognition in attracting customers, has been investigated and analyzed with marketing of electronic services (the case study of Iran Postbank) especially taken into account. E-marketing has greatly facilitated the banking operation.Method: This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-survey and correlational as regards the nature of data collection. The statistical population of the research includes managers and senior supervisors of Iran Postbank. The sample size of the research is 168 people, and simple sampling method was used, and 117 people were selected for the research. A questionnaire was used to collect data. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed through content validity and its reliability using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. To analyze the data, structural equation modeling was used with the help of PLS software.Findings: The results of this research showed that the variables of mental image, brand awareness and brand recognition have a significant and positive impact on the marketing of electronic services, also the marketing of services has a positive and significant impact on customer attraction and the marketing of electronic banking services will increase customer attraction.Conclusion: Given the increasing competition among Iranian banks and the challenge of attracting new customers and keeping current customers, as discussed in this research, brand awareness is one of the most important factors affecting customer attraction in the bank.
Maryam Tavosi
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Purpose: This study analyzes the activities of top Times researchers in the field of political science with an emphasis on examining the ResearchGate network. Method: This study opted for altmetric approach. Two research communities have been surveyed. The number of 145 faculty members affiliated ...
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Purpose: This study analyzes the activities of top Times researchers in the field of political science with an emphasis on examining the ResearchGate network. Method: This study opted for altmetric approach. Two research communities have been surveyed. The number of 145 faculty members affiliated to the top 10 universities of the Times 2021 in the field of political science was stratified sampling randomly, selected. Participation in the ResearchGate network was examined, for them. For the attendees, the indicators of citations, RG-score, and reads were extracted and compared. For the top 15 best Times scientific institutes, the RG scores per member and publication per member were calculated and compared. Correlation between Times Ranking and ResearchGate's indicators, done too. For data analysis, LibreOfficeCalc, and SPSS22 were exploited. Findings: Only, 39% of all faculty members belong to the best Times centers in the field of political science, have seen by registration in the ResearchGate network. For 57 registered individuals, there was a significant correlation between ResearchGate's indicators with each other. But there was no significant relationship between the Times rankings and the mentioned indicators, except for the reads (P-value = 0.018) with a weak reverse correlation (Spearman coefficient= - 0.314). Furthermore, comparative analysis for the top 15 Times institutes had done from standpoint of RG-Score, too. Originality: The Correlation relationship between Times rank and ResearchGate’s indicators in the field of political science, in addition, the participation of faculty members of the best scientific centers in this mentioned field had not been done yet.
