Management and Policy Making
Vahid Khashei Varnamkhasti; Elham Sadat Sabour Abvani
Abstract
Current changes suggest that organizations’ efforts to adapt to external conditions for survival have been more natural than Conscious efforts. Strategies are evolving as a result of the urgent need to respond to market changes - the same need that has a role in making organizational hierarchy ...
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Current changes suggest that organizations’ efforts to adapt to external conditions for survival have been more natural than Conscious efforts. Strategies are evolving as a result of the urgent need to respond to market changes - the same need that has a role in making organizational hierarchy flat - this elimination of management layers, in turn, affects the ways in which organizational strategies are created. Since the 1990s, following the failure of prescriptive strategic plans, a new paradigm in the field of strategic management and decision-making called evidence-based approach has emerged. This research has been done in the insurance industry and while having a pathological view of strategic decisions that are taken at the head of insurance companies, the researcher has tried to find a model of strategic decision-making based on evidence from the discourses of senior managers of insurance companies. This research is fundamental in terms of purpose and it is among the mixed exploratory studies. In this study, first the evidence-based strategic decision model was designed using the Grounded theory and the Strauss and Corbin paradigm model, and then the fuzzy Delphi method was used in order to determine the importance of the factors identified in the model.
Economy
Seyed Hossein Mirjalili
Abstract
Poor Economics analyzes the economic behavior of the poor. It is an application of behavioral economics to the economics of poverty and it seeks to provide an innovative solution to eight issues: hunger, health, schooling, population, risk, loans, savings and entrepreneurship of the poor using randomized ...
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Poor Economics analyzes the economic behavior of the poor. It is an application of behavioral economics to the economics of poverty and it seeks to provide an innovative solution to eight issues: hunger, health, schooling, population, risk, loans, savings and entrepreneurship of the poor using randomized control experiments. Although the book offers a new way to combat poverty, the book's evaluation shows that the limitations of the randomized control trial have not been addressed. Improving the performance of the poor without institutional reform has limited impact. There are no conclusions and suggestions for the eight issues discussed. With the marginal actions that this book suggests to improve the lives of the poor, the problem of poverty of about two billion people in the world cannot be solved. The impact of culture on the motivation and behavior of the poor has not been discussed, though the poor are heavily influenced by cultural beliefs and norms.
