Hasan Boudlaie; Akbar Bahmani ; Yousef Mohammadi Moghadam
Abstract
New Technology-Based Firms (NTBFs) have significant contribution to economic growth, and in particular to promote innovation and job creation. For this reason, many countries are seeking to establish and grow such institutions with encouraging policies. Despite the economic importance of these companies, ...
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New Technology-Based Firms (NTBFs) have significant contribution to economic growth, and in particular to promote innovation and job creation. For this reason, many countries are seeking to establish and grow such institutions with encouraging policies. Despite the economic importance of these companies, there is no single definition for them, and several definitions for these types of companies are tailored to the purpose of each study. Because of the nature of the need to produce a coherent framework for the characteristics of these types of companies, it is important that the purpose of the present study is to identify the features of the NTBFs. For this purpose, the research works that covered the nature of this concept from 1990 to 2011 were analyzed by content analysis. In the first phase, definitions of these companies were compiled, and further identification of the effective nature of these companies was identified. The results of this research led to the identification, confirmation and prioritization of the five features that include being new, advanced technology, independence, small size in terms of number of employees and volume of sales and funding by the founders, which according to the most frequent characteristics of the articles in question were prioritized. The final result of this study is to guide and streamline future research by achieving theoretical coherence in defining this concept.
Hasan Valian; Alireza koushki Jahromi; Hasan Boudlaie
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The development of information and communication technology over the past decades has had tremendous impacts on organizations and has changed their strategies in adapting to the environment.The purpose of this research is to design a model of information technology capabilities in government organizations. ...
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The development of information and communication technology over the past decades has had tremendous impacts on organizations and has changed their strategies in adapting to the environment.The purpose of this research is to design a model of information technology capabilities in government organizations. This research is developmental research in term of result, an exploratory research based on goal and a qualitative research in terms of methodology. The interview was used to collect the data necessary for analysis through the contextual theory. In this research, 14 interviews were conducted, which included two sections of knowledgeable managers, and IT and management specialists as theoreticians of this field. At first, the interviews were deep. In the middle, due to identification of conceptual codes, the interviews were conducted as semi – standard interviews for proper conceptualization of the topic. Analysis of the research codes after open coding showed that 132 codes were identified in the open coding step and in the central coding step, the two main themes of "IT infrastructure" and "IT exploitation" as the causative conditions Organizational structures and cultural mechanisms as conditions of intervention and acquisition of knowledge and exploitation of knowledge were also identified as the underlying conditions 6 IT strategies and 11 outcomes of IT capabilities were presented in two before - mentioned main themes. The results of the research showed that the capabilities of information technology in government organizations can bring about the desired outcomes and consequences of providing better quality services to citizens and clients.
