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This research aims to identify the attitudes of university students, who are assumed to keep up with innovative changes and developments, towards technology. It is also aimed to test and improve the validity and reliability of the scale through methods such as factor analysis and confirmatory...
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index of smuggling in Iran from 1970 to 2002. The Multiple Indicators - Multiple Causes (MIMIC) econometric modelling is … incentives for illegal trade. More trade openness accompanies more illegal trade for the case of Iran. On average, the relative … size of smuggling is about 13% of the total trade in Iran. The absolute amount of smuggling per year is about $3 billion. …
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We propose a new method of structural equation modeling (SEM) for longitudinal and time series data, named Dynamic GSCA (Generalized Structured Component Analysis). The proposed method extends the original GSCA by incorporating a multivariate autoregressive model to account for the dynamic...
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In this article we investigate the impact of personal and organizational trust on the financial performance of companies over a period of time. The effect of trust on various economic and managerial transactions is being researched extensively over the last two decades but previous research did...
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Holidays are special periods and give rise to many kinds of non-mandatory trips, such as shopping trips and tourist trips. This study investigates the relationship between Integrated Multimodal Travel Information (IMTI) service and holiday travel behavior characteristics in a trip chain. The...
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This paper studies the relationship between structural equation modeling and Balanced Scorecard in a Swiss non-profit establishment. Using financial and non-financial performance indicators collected directly from the organization, the paper proposes a rational construction and analysis of...
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This study has four main goals: (1) diagnosing the organizational culture of Tehran׳s pharmaceutical companies; (2) investigating the implementation of different categories of TQM in these companies; (3) comparing two models explaining the relationships among culture, TQM and performance; (4)...
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This study analyzes new co-innovative sources of labor productivity (i.e., ICT use, human capital and training, and new forms of work organization) in small firms that produce for local markets. The study presents an application of structural equation modeling (SEM) to 2009 survey data for a...
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