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Transition in national wellbeing: Does good governance play a critical role?

Volume 16, Issue 4, January 2013, Pages 45-62

Asadollah Kordnaiej; Jabbar Babashahi; Hassan Danaee Fard; Adel Azar

Abstract Attaining wellbeing and promoting standards of citizen's life is one of the pillars of national security of countries since a long time ago, and success of governments in achieving this goal is interpreted as one of their power elements, in a manner that guarantee of social member’s survival and achieving good and happy life is counted among major mission of governments. In present research, besides review of present literature about wellbeing, promoting national wellbeing is considered from perspective of improvement of public service qualities and good governance. Research methodology includes both descriptive and correlation analysis based on Structural Equation Modeling. Data was collected by means of documents and libraries studies. Research results indicated that improvement of good governance components result in national wellbeing promotion. Meanwhile, promoting good governance pave the way of wellbeing promotion in quantities direction such as gross domestic product, education, research, health and … and qualitative directions such as happiness. In other words, promoting good governance has dual objectives such as improvement of quantitative indexes like national product and growth of qualitative indexes such as decrease of social costs of economic growth, safeguarding resources for futur and stability of growth.

Building Theory Methodology in Organization and Management:A Comparative Study

Volume 13, Issue 4, September 2010, Pages 165-191

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Abstract There are several methodologies for building theory in organization and management study. The purpose of this study is to compare four methodologies: Dubin, Christensen & Carlile, Lynham and Van de Ven. Therefore, all methodologies were compared based on underling paradigm, type of approach and the relationship between researcher and practioner. It seams that, Dubin’s methodology has regorous steps for building theory, but applicable as pact of methodology for practioners is highlighted. However, all of the mentioned methodogies are based on Organizational context and have appropriate applications.