Mohsen Shafiei Nikabadi Articles List

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1 - Assessment of Potential Risks Towards the Business Processes Reengineering Success in SMEs
Mohsen Shafiei Nik Abadi Haniyeh Farahmand Atiyeh Derakhshan Fatemeh Rezaei

In turbulent business environment, organizations are struggling to make themselves agility and for this purpose, it is necessary for them to reengineer the business process. Selecting an appropriate process for reengineering can improve organization in low cost and high More

In turbulent business environment, organizations are struggling to make themselves agility and for this purpose, it is necessary for them to reengineer the business process. Selecting an appropriate process for reengineering can improve organization in low cost and high speed. This means that organization should select reengineering processes with the greatest potential for change and also generate the best result for the organizations agility. Due to the high failure rate in business processes reengineering, risk assessment is important for these processes. This paper aims to assess the potential risk in the success of business processes reengineering. This study is an applied research in terms of results and in terms of variables; it includes qualitative variables and takes place in the field of descriptive researches and performs via survey method. Cronbach's alpha method is used for the reliability and content for validity. To verify the hypothesis of research, correlation and regression methods are used. A case study performed small and medium enterprises of an Incubator in Ferdowsi University. The innovative aspect of research is to create a new perspective to examine the effect of risk and failure rates in business processes reengineering. According to the results of this research, among the potential risk dimensions, management support and workplace have the greatest impact on success rate of business processes reengineering. Manuscript profile

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2 - The Potential of E-Business to Reduce the Bullwhip Effect in Auto Industry of Iran
Lauya Olfat Mohsen Shafiei Nik Abadi

Uncertainty about the supply chain and its various components causes demand variability in the length of chain in a way that as diverting from the final customer demand and actual orders, more fluctuation in amount of orders is observed and this can be followed by undes More

Uncertainty about the supply chain and its various components causes demand variability in the length of chain in a way that as diverting from the final customer demand and actual orders, more fluctuation in amount of orders is observed and this can be followed by undesirable effects. This phenomenon is called Bullwhip effect. Several factors are involved in the occurrence of this problem for which some strategies to are listed. In this paper, first Bullwhip effect and what caused it in the supply chain are defined. Then, Key factors in reducing the effects in Auto industry using Survey are analyzed. Finally, with regard to the capabilities of electronic business, its role in confronting this phenomenon will be expressed. This Research is an Applied Research and a questionnaire containing 26 questions was used for the analysis. According to various aspects of creating Bullwhip Effect, partial sampling was used and a collection of experts in the field of inventory control, production planning and parts supply, sales, after sales service and supply chain management were surveyed. Calculated Samples are 171 experts. In this paper, The Mean Test is used to evaluate each hypothesis and finally Friedman's Test is used to assess being equal rank of Reducing Factors of Bullwhip effect. Innovative aspect of the research is observed in the study and identification of key factors in creating Bullwhip effect in supply chain and investigation of electronic business impact in reducing the negative effect. Manuscript profile

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3 - Role of Organizational Innovation in Implementing EBusiness in Parent Companies in Automobile Industry
Mohsen Shafiei Nik Abadi Azam Jalili bolhasani Ali Khatami firozabadi

In today world, while everything is changing so fast and the competitors always want to increase their market share through competitive advantages, noting to the innovations is an alternative way for increasing the competitive advantages in this dynamic commercial envir More

In today world, while everything is changing so fast and the competitors always want to increase their market share through competitive advantages, noting to the innovations is an alternative way for increasing the competitive advantages in this dynamic commercial environment. Appearance of internet and other different information technologies has changed the business models for gaining the competitive advantages and electronic business has been introduced as a vital tool which relates the companies with customers and market forces sustainable. Parent companies can be separated from other companies because of their special characteristics in the business models. In this research, different dimensions of innovation are recognized and they have been categorized in 4 main factors: 1) development of information technologies tools, 2) extensive competitive price, 3) extensive centralization in industry (market share) and 4) centralization and the degree of flexibility in duties. These different dimensions of innovation are surveyed in Iran Khodro and Saipa (Two Parent Companies in Iran). To evaluate the e-business models, these factors are applied to find out the importance of the factors in the automobile industry. The result of research showed just centralization and flexibility in duties has not obtained the important task for implementing e-business in Parent Companies in automobile industry. Finally, the important factors have been evaluated in the Iran Khodro Parent Company to show how well the company can be successful in implementing the electronic business. Manuscript profile

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4 - Critical Criteria in e-Businesses Assessment
Mohsen Shafiei Nik Abadi Auzam Jalili bolhasani Seyed mohammad ali Khatami firoz abadi

The Internet is considered as an important innovation in business environment and acts as a very important tool in getting competitive advantages. Researchers have tried to gather critical and key factors in e-Businesses and classify them in Balance Score Card(BSC) base More

The Internet is considered as an important innovation in business environment and acts as a very important tool in getting competitive advantages. Researchers have tried to gather critical and key factors in e-Businesses and classify them in Balance Score Card(BSC) based Method. Then, 6 international e-businesses get ranked using 3 Decision Making Method (SAW,TOPSIS, PROMETHEE). At last, these 6 international e-businesses get ranked using Mean Ranking and Majority Rule. Innovative aspect of this article is gathering and classification of Critical Criteria in e-businesses assessment and using Decision making method in assessing e-business. Manuscript profile

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5 - The role of Porters 5 Competitive Forces in selecting e-business model in auto industry (Case study: Iran Khodro)
Mohsen Shafiei Nik Abadi Auzam Jalili bolhasani

The main purpose of present article is assessing the Porter's 5 Competitive Forces in selecting e-business model in auto industry. These five forces include threatening the new competitors, Suppliers' bargaining power, Buyers' Bargaining Power, Competition between all c More

The main purpose of present article is assessing the Porter's 5 Competitive Forces in selecting e-business model in auto industry. These five forces include threatening the new competitors, Suppliers' bargaining power, Buyers' Bargaining Power, Competition between all companies in an industry, Product and service replacement power. These Competitive Forces were surveyed in auto industry. The survey was done in Iran Khodro and Saipa, since these two Iranian reliable auto manufacturing companies have got the highest share of Iranian auto market. In this survey, the role of All Porter's 5 Competitive Forces in selecting e-business model was approved. Then, as a case study in Iran khodro, researchers measured the Competitive Forces in this company and analyzed the ability of this company against industrial environmental changes in selecting e-business model. Manuscript profile

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6 - The Role of Processes Integration in Selecting E-business Model in Automobile Industry: A Case Study in Iran Khodro Company
Mohsen Shafiei Nik Abadi Ali Khatami firozabadi

Use of E-businesses is considered as a necessity for getting Competitive Advantage. Selecting and Implementing E-business Models needs different inter-organization and intra-organization Backgrounds. One of the most important Backgrounds is integration in internal and e More

Use of E-businesses is considered as a necessity for getting Competitive Advantage. Selecting and Implementing E-business Models needs different inter-organization and intra-organization Backgrounds. One of the most important Backgrounds is integration in internal and external processes in a company. In this article at first, different processes in Enterprise Resource Planning system is identified. Then, Importance of Integration for selecting and Implementing E-business in Automobile Industry is surveyed. At last, as a case study, the Integration in Internal and External Processes in Iran Khodro Company is measured. Manuscript profile

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7 - Impact of Science and Technology Parks Quality of the Service on Growth and Innovative Performance of Firms located in Parks; Case study: Pardis Technology Park
Mohsen Shafiei Nik Abadi Saeideh Ghochkanloo

10.7508/jstpi.2015.03.006

According to the global approach of knowledge base economy in most countries, the creation of organizations such as science and technology parks seems to be necessary considering to their influence on the development of science and technology. The main purpose of this s More

According to the global approach of knowledge base economy in most countries, the creation of organizations such as science and technology parks seems to be necessary considering to their influence on the development of science and technology. The main purpose of this study, is to evaluate the impact quality of the service provided by science and technology parks on growth and innovative performance of firms located in these parks. This research is an applied one which was conducted as a survey in Pardis Technology Park, as the biggest and most important science and technology park of the country, and with the help of more than 30 managers in active firms of this park. In this research, the Cronbach's alpha and Average Variance Extracted was used to measure reliability and validation. Also, Confirmatory Factor Analysis (First and Second stage), correlation test and path analysis was used for answering the questions. Innovation aspect of the study is a new look to the impact of service quality provided by science and technology parks on growth and innovative performance of independent firms located in these parks. Results indicates that the most important factor for these managers is the reliability of the clients to the park. Park staff empathy with clients is also less important factor. Manuscript profile

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