Neda Abdolvand

Alzahra University · Department of Management

Purpose This study aims to endeavor to shed light on the underlying causal mechanisms behind the failure of startups by examining the failure process in such organizations. To achieve this goal, the study conducted a comprehensive review of the literature on the definition of failure and its various dimensions, resulting in the compilation of a com...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the association of different risk factors including vitamin-D level with catheter-related-thrombosis in hemodialysis patients by applying data mining techniques. Methods This study used the retrospectively approach and was done based on the CRISP-DM framework. The data of 1048 hemodialysis patients of Hashemi...

With the reduction in fossil fuels and their environmental impacts, the use of solar cells as green energies in various countries is expanding. It is certainly neither effective nor necessarily possible to generalize a single specific model for different countries considering their different conditions. Therefore, this study, with the aim of provid...

With the reduction in fossil fuels and their environmental impacts, the use of solar cells as green energies in various countries is expanding. It is certainly neither effective nor necessarily possible to generalize a single specific model for different countries considering their different conditions. Therefore, this study, with the aim of provid...

Background Hemodialysis tunneled catheters are prone to failure due to infection or thrombosis. Prediction of catheter dysfunction chance and finding the predisposing risk factors might help clinicians to prolong proper catheter function. The multidimensional mechanism of failures following infection or thrombosis needs a multivariable and comprehe...

Today, organizations make significant investments in information technology (IT) as a strategic resource to achieve their goals. If these investments are managed properly, they can create value for the organization. However, companies face problems in evaluating IT investment plans to gain value from them and improve organizational performance, whi...

Crowdsourcing creates an opportunity to interact with large groups of potential consumers. Advances in technology and social media have facilitated the rapid development of crowdsourcing as one of the concepts of open innovation and value creation in marketing. In crowdsourcing contests, it is important to increase crowd participation and predict u...

Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study is to identify Critical Success Factors (CSF) of Business Intelligence (BI) and provide a framework to classify CSF into layers or perspectives using an enterprise architecture approach, then rank CSF within each perspective and evaluate the importance of each perspective at different BI maturity levels as well. B...

Despite the fact that the concept of crowdsourcing is extensively employed by scholars, but the dynamic interactions between crowd and crowdsourcer have been received scant attention. This article aims to explore successful drivers of crowdsourcing platforms by considering the role of both main sides, meaning crowd and crowdsourcer. The current stu...

Natural language processing in specific domains such as financial markets requires the knowledge of domain ontology. Therefore, developing a domain-specific lexicon to improve financial context sentiment analysis is noteworthy. In this paper, by exploring a wide related corpus along with using lexical resources, a hybrid approach is proposed to bui...

بیان مسئله: طراحی زیبایی‌شناسی بصری پایگاه وب به‌عنوان بخش جدایی‌ناپذیر از تجربیات انسان در تعامل فناوری، قادر به وضع پاسخ‌های عاطفی و تجربیات چندحسی است. امروزه شناسایی مؤلفه‌هایی که موجب ارتقای کیفیت تجربۀ زیبایی‌شناسی بصری کاربر شود به مسئله‌ای اساسی در طراحی صفحات وب تبدیل‌ شده است؛ ازاین‌رو، این پژوهش بر نقش طراحی بصری بر ادراک زیبایی‌شناسی صف...

Problem statement: The visual aesthetic design of a website, as an inseparable part of human experience in interaction with technology, is capable of meeting the needs of emotional and multi-sense experiences. The identification of components that raises the quality of visual attraction for the user has become the prime concern in the design of web...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is an intelligent software solution for managing business processes and integrating different parts of organization. ERP has become a strategic tool that facilitates the flow of functional information throughout the organization. The ERP systems implementation differs from other system implementations in different...

With the reduction in fossil fuels and their environmental impacts, the use of solar cells as green energies in various countries is expanding. It is certainly neither effective nor necessarily possible to generalize a single specific model for different countries considering their different conditions. Therefore, this study, with the aim of provid...

The rapid development of technology, the Internet, and the development of electronic commerce have led to the emergence of recommender systems. These systems will assist the users in finding and selecting their desired items. The accuracy of the advice in recommender systems is one of the main challenges of these systems. Regarding the fuzzy system...

The increasing use of technologies based on Internet of Things in cars and other transportation vehicles, as well as innovations in tracking systems and spatial information systems, have created the opportunity to collect tolls on urban roads in a more intelligent, more efficient, and a wider way. Considering the cultural and infrastructure variabl...

Crowdsourcing (CS) is a web-based business model that, through a public call, helps the large number of people active on the Web to develop innovative solutions. By using CS in the new product development (NPD), it is possible to propose and solve NPD issues and provide a higher quality product in a short time and at a low cost. Considering the nov...

BACKGROUND Colorectal cancer is the third common cancer in Iran. In this study we aimed to identify factors associated with the prevalence of advanced colonic neoplasms among a high-risk population. METHODS Participants were 474 first degree relatives of patients with colon cancer who underwent a screening colonoscopy at Digestive Disease Research...

effective communication network is an essential factor in the improvement of students’ academic achievement. Considering the important role of learning in higher education and the role that communication and behavioral networks play in the students’ academic performance, as well as the dynamic characteristics of social networks, the impact of techn...

Todays, regarding the information overload on the web, providing services to enhance network efficiency by using computer-based recommender systems has become a necessity. Naturally, these systems are unable to provide recommendations without the appropriate information. Therefore, the accuracy of the recommendation in the recommender systems is on...

Today, the concept of open innovation and collaborative networks attracts great interest. Many organisations use collaborative networks. The success of the innovation of these networks is restricted to their alignment. Hence, this study aims to propose a strategic alignment model for collaborative open innovation networks. The Luftman strategic ali...

Market basket analysis, as an important analysis tool, helps businesses to improve product promotion and to recommend systems development. The association rules based on the Apriori algorithm is the conventional method of market basket analysis. In this research by modeling transactional data as product network, customer network, and customer-produ...

In today’s world which is subject to an increasing number of stores and level of rivalry on a daily basis, decisions concerning a store’s location are considered highly important. Over the years, researchers and marketers have used a variety of different approaches for solving the optimal store location problem. Like many other research areas, earl...

Although many researchers have investigated the implications of information technology on people, business, and the environment, most of these studies have focused on developed countries. According to some researchers, IT strategies and organizational outcomes would be significantly different across countries due to existing structural and cultural...

Today, increased competition between organizations has led them to seek a better understanding of customer behavior through identifying valuable customers. Customers’ expectations about the price and quality of products and services play an important role in their selection process. In online businesses, competition and price differences between su...

Stock market is one of the options available to invest in liquidity. Investors in this area used a variety of approaches to predict stock prices. But due to the nonlinear relationship between variables affecting stock prices, Artificial Neural Networks are one of the most suitable approaches for this work. These networks, through different search o...

Due to the increasing growth of digital content on the internet and social media, sentiment analysis problem is one of the emerging fields. This problem deals with information extraction and knowledge discovery from textual data using natural language processing has attracted the attention of many researchers. Construction of sentiment lexicon as a...

Today, increased competition between organizations has led them to seek a better understanding of customer behavior through innovative ways of storing and analyzing their information. Moreover, the emergence of new computing technologies has brought about major changes in the ability of organizations to collect, store and analyze macro-data. Theref...

With the emergence of electronic commerce, the development of social networks has introduced the concept of social commerce. Since accepting new technology can be somewhat challenging for Internet users, this study examines the effect of perceived risk on the adoption of social commerce from their perspective. For this purpose, a conceptual model b...

Social networks, as the most important communication tools, have had a profound impact on social aspects of community user interactions and they are used widely in various fields, such as education. Student interaction through different communication networks can affect individual learning and leads to improved academic performance. In this study,...

Given the environmental changes and growing local and global competition, in order to stay in the competition and more profitability the organizations need to have motivated, committed, skilled and powerful employees. In fact, there has always been a growing need to managerial practices empowerment. Therefore, the aim of this comparative study was...

In competitive world, as information technology progresses, organizations are seeking to acquire competitive advantage in global market to survive. One of information technology areas which have been more considered by managers is business intelligence. BI Implementation and using its benefits require the identification of all the factors that prev...

Social commerce has been introduced as a new approach to increase sales, number of customers and reduce marketing expenditures. This approach is a combination of business, communication between people, as well as communicative and informative technologies based on web 2.0 Its achievement originated from different factors relied on business, individ...

Factors affecting business-information technology strategic alignment have been investigated in numerous research studies, mostly in developed countries including Western Europe and North America. Given that the Western world has a distinct business culture, there is reason to investigate the boundaries of the generalizability of these research stu...

Information technology outsourcing is one of the factors affecting the improvement of flexibility and dynamics of enterprises in the competitive environment. Also the study of the factors affecting its success has been always considered by business owners and the area of research. Professional experiences and research results consider that the succ...

Information technology outsourcing is one of the factors affecting the improvement of flexibility and dynamics of enterprises in the competitive environment. Also the study of the factors affecting its success has been always considered by business owners and the area of research. Professional experiences and research results consider that the succ...

The growing importance of business analytics and its increasing influence on the competitive advantage of organizations leads to the necessity of knowledge management systems, which complex and needs organizational readiness that has been the subject of earlier research. This study aims to examine whether the affective factors on the assessment of...

Customer activity has received more attention due to the increase of social network applications. Moreover, customer activity could be an answer to the research debate about the significant relationship between retention rate and lifetime profitability of customers. Several researchers believe that an increase in the retention rate of customers may...

Performance management (PM) and customer management were the subjects of researchers’ attentions for several decades. This research tries to align these two approaches to provide strategic decision-making. The proposed approach suggests an integration of customer relationship management system incorporating PM system considering maximisation of cus...

Over the past few years, emergence of cloud computing has notably made an evolution in the IT industry by putting forward an "everything as a service" idea .Cloud Computing is of growing interest to companies throughout the world, but there are many barriers associated with its adoption which should be eliminated. This paper aims to investigate Clo...

Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) is the core concept of relationship marketing and is increasingly addressed in scholarly and business articles. However, there is a big gap in the literature to make CLV thoroughly applicable in business. This paper aims to illuminate the trend of CLV by critical analysis of the literature. For this purpose, after reve...

Bank Performance management and customer management were the subjects of researchers' attentions for several decades. This reserch tries to align these two approaches to provide strategic decision making. The proposed holistic approach suggests an integration of customer relationship management system incorporating performance management system con...

This research uses soft system methodology in exploring a real world problem in managing the performance of banks' branches. In the first step, a rich picture is drawn based on the semi-structured interviews with experienced personnel and managers of Iranian commercial banks. Extracting a rich picture about the problem situation and roots of the pr...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose how to minimize the risks of implementing business process reengineering (BPR) by measuring readiness. For this purpose, the paper proposes an assessment approach for readiness in BPR efforts based on the critical success and failure factors. Design/methodology/approach – A relevant literature revi...

Business Process Reengineering (BPR) has been introduced as an effective solution for improving radically the performance of organizations. It is recommended to consider a methodology in the BPR effort because of its risky and complicated nature. Although, many researches present various methodologies, a comprehensive methodology has not been intro...

Mobile telecommunications companies face the issues, including sever competition, and market saturation. Increasing customer loyalty has been introduced as a key solution, to guarantee the success of the business. Several researchers have explored that customer satisfaction and switching barriers are influential elements of customer loyalty. They i...

Supply chains are going to evolve by a new technology, which is called the Electronic Product Code (EPC) technology, based on radio frequency identification (RFID). This provides new opportunities in automatic identification that none of previous technologies offered. It also appears to have the potential to enhance Efficient Consumer Response (ECR...

Today's everybody is conscious that e-business could potentially transform the business landscape. Enterprises are struggling with ERP, SCM and CRM application to compete and attend in the market. These applications neither are easy to implement, nor expensive but time and cost consuming. In addition, customers, suppliers and even employees expecta...