Studying and Providing a Model for the Development of Collective Financing in Religious Organizations (Case Study of Holy Razavi Shrine) by Marzieh Amir Beik, Mohammad Mahdi Baradaran, Seyyed Jalal-Aldin Hoseini Vaez, Seyyed Sajjad Anoushe

“…The analysis of 16 interviews with senior managers of the Holy Razavi Shrine to explore the model of collective financing development there, include 278 basic themes, 44 organizing themes and 16 comprehensive themes: Changing the management approaches to the organization, internalization of collective participation in the organization, structural re-engineering, structural and functional barriers of the organization, creating technological infrastructure, employing responsible groups, creating comprehensive programs, paving the way for the endowment attitude in society, methods of developing collective financing patterns, attraction of popular cultural and religious partnerships with specific organization protocols, resources and conditions of collective financing, core projects and development patterns are included. …”
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A Model of Human Resources Heritage in Bank Melli of Iran by Afshin Soltani, Hamza Khastar, Saeed Jafarinia, Roohallah Noori

“…In the qualitative phase, 20 senior managers from the National Bank of Iran headquarters participated, selected through purposiove sampling and theoretical saturation principles. …”
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The impact of entrepreneurial orientation on marketing performance: An analytical study of a sample of five star hotels in Jordan. by Khaled Atallah Al-Tarawneh

“…The study population consisted of (36) five-star hotels in Jordan, and the questionnaire was the main tool for data collection where the final number of the study sample was (100) from senior managers and sales managers, as well as marketing managers in the researched hotels. …”
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Investigating the Effect of Organizational Structure Dimensions on Knowledge Management in Public Hospitals in Qom Province by Shahrokh Rahbar, Ahmad Rahbar, Abolfazl Mohammadbeigi, Alireza Omidi Oskouei

“…Therefore, supporting senior managers in knowledge-based strategies and increasing employee participation in decision-making and decentralization will be useful for implementing knowledge management.…”
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Donors' Participation in Iran's Health System: Challenges and Solutions by Ali Mohammad Mosadeghrad, Maryam Tajvar, Fatemeh Ehteshami

“…All ethical considerations were followed in this research.Results  Insufficient structures, poor communications, low trust, ineffective working processes, bureaucracy, insufficient senior managers’ support, weak legal support and poor monitoring were the most important challenges for donors’ participation in the Iranian health system. …”
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Investigating open innovation strategic alignment for sustainable competitive advantage in the automotive supply chain in South Africa by Arthur M. Gonyora, Stephen Migiro, Bongani Ngwenya, Pfano Mashau

“…Fourteen semi-structured interviews were conducted amongst Chief Executiver Officers (CEOs), senior managers and Research and Development (RD) managers of four selected firms who understood their organisation’s research and development initiatives. …”
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Strategies for the declining printing industry: Diversification, consolidation, and internationalisation by Hussein Khan, John M. Luiz

“…Design; methodology approach: The research is an exploratory study based on qualitative analysis of senior managers within the South African large-scale printing industry that seeks to gain their perspectives on viable options to curb declining growth. …”
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The influence of organizational culture on performance in public entities of South Africa by Moses M. Gasela

“…Method: The survey design and a semi-structured questionnaire were used to collect data from a random sample of 38 respondents, comprising 32 senior managers of the public entities and six executives from three NC Provincial Government Departments. …”
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Employee retention within the Information Technology Division of a South African Bank by Joy Mohlala, Geoff A. Goldman, Xenia Goosen

“…Semi structured interviews were conducted with thirteen senior managers and four directors of the bank’s Information Technology Division, who were selected on a purposive basis. …”
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Influence of infrastructure financing on financial sustainability of water service providers in Kenya by Крістін Мавія Юліус, Тимофі Ч. Океч

“…Methodology: The study deals with the pragmatic research philosophy and an explanatory sequential mixed design targeting at some senior managers among the eighty-eight registered WSPs in Kenya. …”
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The Viewpoints of Managers about Advantages, Disadvantages and Barriers in Health Care Outsourcing in Isfahan by Saeed karimi, Maryam Yaghoubi, Zahra Agharahimi, Hadi Hayati Abbarik, Roghaye Mohammadi Bakhsh

“…Research population was all senior managers of educational hospitals and the Treatment Deputy of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences (n = 60). …”
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Presenting the Competitiveness Model of Industrial Clusters and Agricultural Conversion Industries of Companies Affiliated to Agricultural Cooperatives in Mazandaran Province by leila Andervazh, ebrahim naiemi, iman ghasemi hamedani, zahra atf

“…The quality department consisted of experts from industrial clusters (senior manager or director of marketing and sales with at least 10 years of useful work experience and doctoral education). …”
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Exploring the challenges to using telecardiology as perceived by pre-hospital emergency care personnel: a qualitative study by Mostafa Bijani, Saeed Abedi, Azam Zare, Ziba Tavacol, Fozieh Abadi, Abdulhakim Alkamel

“…The three main themes included professional barriers (lack of clinical knowledge of telecardiology, lack of clinical skill in telecardiology, violation of patients’ privacy, lack of clinical guidelines on telecardiology), medical equipment and telecommunication barriers (poor reception and ineffective means of communication, low charge on the battery of tele-electrocardiogram machines), and organizational management barriers (serious lack of cardiologists available for medical counseling and lack of continual personal development of the telecardiology personnel). Conclusion Senior managers in pre-hospital emergency care services are recommended to use the results of this study to identify the influential factors in using telecardiology and take the necessary measures to eliminate the existing barriers toward making optimal use of telemedicine, thereby improving the quality of care provided for cardiac patients.…”
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The pervasive lack of gender diversity in the boardroom: The inconvenience of ambivalent sexism by Vanessa Naidoo, Morris Mthombeni, Manoj D. Chiba

“…Research approach/design and method: A quantitative study was conducted, with 172 board members, C-suite executives, directors and senior managers of publicly listed companies completing a self-reported questionnaire and a survey that measured hostile sexism and benevolent sexism. …”
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Managing a transition to green energy sources: The perspectives of energy practitioners in the Southern African Development Community region. by Justice Ramagoma, Chris Adendorff

“…The categories of respondents sampled included: people associated with fossil fuel and renewable energy; people with experience of 1-6 years and more than 6 years; researchers and industry practitioners; practitioners based in South Africa and in other SADC countries; and a category based on practitioners’ positions (junior managers, middle managers, and senior managers) in their respective organisations. The study found that energy practitioners generally support a transition to green energy sources and there is consensus that the uptake of green energy will be slow initially, driven by low costs of fossil-based sources, but the uptake will eventually grow exponentially to a point of driving industries in future. …”
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Internal evaluation in the faculties affiliated to Zanjan university of medical sciences: quality assurance of medical science education based on institutional accreditation by Alireza Abdanipour, Farhad Ramezani‐Badr, Ali Norouzi, Mehdi Ghaemi

“…Finally, the faculty officials and senior managers of Zanjan University of Medical Sciences were provided with feedback on the results of the internal evaluation in the two sections of mandatory and developmental standards. …”
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Network embeddedness, digital transformation, and enterprise performance—The moderating effect of top managerial cognition by Yue Li, Guo Zhen Fei

“…Taking the middle and senior managers of 239 enterprises as the research objects, this paper applies hierarchical regression, bootstrap and other analysis methods for empirical test, and draws the following conclusions: (1) Relational embeddedness and cognitive embeddedness have a positive impact on digital transformation, while structural embeddedness has no significant impact on digital transformation. (2) Digital transformation has a significant positive impact on enterprise performance. (3) Digital transformation plays a significant mediating role between relational embeddedness, cognitive embeddedness and enterprise performance. (4) In the context of top managerial cognition, cognitive embeddedness can better improve enterprise performance through digital transformation. …”
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Contract Conditions and BIM Use Effectiveness to Improve Project Performance by Francisco Villena Manzanares, Tatiana García-Segura, Eugenio Pellicer

“…The results, however, are only based on Spanish companies, meaning they may not necessarily be applied in global terms due to the cultural differences there may be within countries and continents, which should also be taken into account in the construction phase. Senior managers and policymakers could greatly benefit from the abovementioned findings with regard to improving contractual conditions in project design management in a BIM context, helping remove any source of conflict. …”
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PAYMENT INNOVATIONS IN POLAND: A NEW APPROACH OF THE BANKING SECTOR TO INTRODUCING PAYMENT SOLUTIONS by Michał Polasik, Dariusz Piotrowski

“…The second survey included the opinions of 70 experts, who were senior managers from banks and other payment market institutions. …”
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Designing a Strategic Renewal Model for Development of Organizations in Iran based on the Professional Identity of Managers (Case Study: The State-owned Companies of IDRO) by Mahdieh Vishlaghi, Alireza Moghaddam, Reza Sepahvand, adel azar

“…Conclusion Based on the strategic renewal model, middle and senior managers achieve an acceptable level of strategic renewal by understanding and identifying the causal factors affecting strategic modernization in state-owned companies and improving the underlying conditions. …”
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