Saeed Fathi; Majid Esmailian; Farzaneh Ghandehari; Yaghoob Shirangi; Alireza Ajam
Volume 19, Issue 3 , September 2015, , Pages 218-241
Abstract
Capital structure policy is a mean to tradeoff between risk and return and many factors influencing the optimal capital structure for each company. The aim of this study is to investigate the factors affecting the capital structure of companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange and some selected stock ...
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Capital structure policy is a mean to tradeoff between risk and return and many factors influencing the optimal capital structure for each company. The aim of this study is to investigate the factors affecting the capital structure of companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange and some selected stock exchanges in the developed and developing countries, and compare these determinants in a domestic versus international setting. Determinants of capital structure, considered in this research, are in the firm and country levels. In the firm level, profitability distance from bankruptcy, size and the ratio of fixed assets to total assets are used, and in the country level, the role of country’s GDP growth and stock market development is investigated. For international companies, we used Compustat Global Vantage database and World Bank databases and for domestic companies, we used Tadbirpardaz database to collect data. The findings showed the determinants significantly effecting on capital structure in four populations: the whole world, developed countries, developing countries, and Iran. Finally, we found that the developed and developing countries profitability and the size have different effects on capital structure. Alternatively in comparison between Iran and the developed countries, size and the ration of fixed assets have different effects on capital structure.
Ali Attafar; Saeed Fathi; Arash Shahin; Bita Yazdani
Volume 18, Issue 2 , July 2014, , Pages 215-234
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Up to now lots of researches have been done about Total Quality Management in Iranian organizations but most of them have not been relyed on the perviouse researches. Disregarding the perviouse results of researches causes that the study of barriers and challenges of Iranian organization have been faced ...
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Up to now lots of researches have been done about Total Quality Management in Iranian organizations but most of them have not been relyed on the perviouse researches. Disregarding the perviouse results of researches causes that the study of barriers and challenges of Iranian organization have been faced with some difficulties. The purpose of the present study is investigating the level of implementation of total quality management practices in Iranian governmental organizations with Meta analysis method so the results of 19 papers within 1381 to 1388 have been analysed. The results of the Meta analysis show the descending trend of top management and leadership, human resource management, strategic planning, structure and organizational culture and process management in Iranian governmental organizations while the trend of customer principel is increasing through these years. The results of this research show that Iranian governmental organizations should pay more attention to implement the total quality management practices in order to provide appropriate context for new managerial approaches.
Bagher Asgarnezhad Nouri; Ali Sanayei; Saeed Fathi; Ali Kazemi
Volume 18, Issue 1 , May 2014, , Pages 151-169
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Performance assessment is one of the activities, which has many advantages and can have a considerable effect on the performance of organizations. Inadequate accountability of senior managers of marketing in recent years has incurred a loss to the position of marketing unit. As a result, studying the ...
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Performance assessment is one of the activities, which has many advantages and can have a considerable effect on the performance of organizations. Inadequate accountability of senior managers of marketing in recent years has incurred a loss to the position of marketing unit. As a result, studying the effect of marketing activities on organizational performance is specifically important. Framework of marketing productivity shows that it is possible to establish a relation between marketing activities and organizational performance. On the other hand, results of studies in many academic fields conducted about a specific issue are usually confusing and contrasting. Meta-analysis is a research approach that helps the researcher to a large extent to identify the moderating variables in the results of previous studies. Despite that various researches have been conducted, such contrast is also observed in the relation between marketing activities and organizational performance. Characteristics of the research sample can be referred among the several reasons that have been mentioned for such divergence in similar studies. It was tried in the present survey to identify the role of moderating variables the regarding characteristics of the research sample in relation between marketing activities and organizational performance using meta-analysis approach. Given to the use of meta-analysis approach in the present paper, the statistical population consisted of all previous studies, which have explained and measured the relationship among marketing activities and organizational performance, and the researcher had access to them. On the basis of searching in the mentioned databases, 523 studies were gathered. With regard to the meta-analysis standards and the researcher constraints, ultimately 142 studies were selected to implement the mete–analysis method. The obtained results revealed that the moderating variables related to the characteristics of the research sample like the kind of industry, type of ownership of the organization and so on have led to a significant difference in the results of studies regarding the effect of marketing activities on the organizational performance of organizations.
farshid dehghani; Saeed Fathi Fathi
Volume 17, Issue 3 , September 2013, , Pages 167-189
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In the past decade, national and international financial markets have experienced many financial crises. One reason for this crisis is the incorrect behavior of investors in making decisions, because of unclear situations and cognitive mistakes. with regard to there are these crisis in the domestic market ...
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In the past decade, national and international financial markets have experienced many financial crises. One reason for this crisis is the incorrect behavior of investors in making decisions, because of unclear situations and cognitive mistakes. with regard to there are these crisis in the domestic market , This study tries to explain the behavior of investors and identify sociological factors that influence on Conformity Behavior of Investors , It will help to solve financial crises in the securities market. In this research a questionnaire was used to collect data and research hypotheses were tested using Hotelling’s T-square test and multiple regression techniques. Results showed that investors satisfy their financial needs in line with its sociological needs and Knowledge and investment experience and age of investors are affect both forms of conformity behaviors and sociological needs are affect only on Normative Conformity Behavior and Investors gender did not affect any of the two forms of Conformity Behavior.
Jeiran Mohammadi; Ali asghar Fani; Saeed Fathi
Volume 17, Issue 2 , May 2013, , Pages 145-176
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Trying for improvement performance as an essential principle, since of preliminary management creation, had been noticeable and more extensive every day. Today, it has prospect behaviors beyond the formal duties that are contextual performance, extra-role behaviors, Spontaneous behaviors or organizational ...
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Trying for improvement performance as an essential principle, since of preliminary management creation, had been noticeable and more extensive every day. Today, it has prospect behaviors beyond the formal duties that are contextual performance, extra-role behaviors, Spontaneous behaviors or organizational citizenship behaviors. The other wise, the results of studies indicate that strain hinders of this behaviors. Therefore it's necessary schematization of plans and solutions for decreasing strain and then increasing OCBs. One of the most important of the activities is recognition of the effective variables on the OCBs for its preservation, increasing and reinforcement. This study with meta-analysis approach has recognized and studied the moderator variables that have been effective on this relationship. Statistical society is the hole of the studies that have investigating the relationship between strains and OCBs, total studies are 169 with 893 effect sizes, The results of studies revealed this relationship is moderated by five moderators of the characteristics of the study sample: the kind of job and organization (governmental vs. private), organizational position (managerial vs. nonmanagerial), the kind of employee (full time or no full time), and the number of statistic society.
