Golpar Mehrabi; abbas abbaspour; Ali Delavar; Ali Khorsandi Taskooh
Volume 16, Issue 56 , April 2022, , Pages 5-21
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Identifying the factors contributing to quality of academic research in humanities and social sciencesAbstract, identifying the factors contributing to quality of academic research, especially in humanities and social sciences, deserves special attention. Given differences in research quality criteria ...
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Identifying the factors contributing to quality of academic research in humanities and social sciencesAbstract, identifying the factors contributing to quality of academic research, especially in humanities and social sciences, deserves special attention. Given differences in research quality criteria in different fields, the present study adopted the methods of systematic literature review and thematic analysis to identify the dominant values and themes relevant to research quality in humanities and social sciences. Within the systematic literature review, all the related researchers were retrieved from international and national databases and then filtered. The criteria and themes influencing research quality were extracted from a select number of related researches. The extracted criteria were coded in three stages. This yielded three categories, namely inclusive themes, organizing themes, and basic themes. The themes were validated through consultation with the experts in humanities and social sciences. According to the results, inclusive themes included the research infrastructure, organizational climate, accurate scientific plan, scientific desirability, research productivity, scientific influence and authority, innovative visualization. The results are expected to help researchers conduct quality research. Moreover, the findings can help enhance academic research management systems in their accurate evaluation of researches, particularly in humanities and social sciences.Keywords: academic research quality, humanities and social sciences, systematic literature review, thematic analysis
Danial Davoudirad; Abbas Abbaspour; Mohammadreza Meigounpoory
Volume 15, Issue 54 , October 2021, , Pages 33-50
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The present study was conducted to design and validate a model for social entrepreneurship of higher education in Iran. This study was conducted using a Mixed Method. In the qualitative part of this study, a questionnaire was designed using the method of Grounded Theory and also interviews with 15 experts ...
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The present study was conducted to design and validate a model for social entrepreneurship of higher education in Iran. This study was conducted using a Mixed Method. In the qualitative part of this study, a questionnaire was designed using the method of Grounded Theory and also interviews with 15 experts were conducted. The designed questionnaire was conducted with 384 students in public universities of Tehran. Purposive sampling method was used in the qualitative part whereas random classified sampling method was applied in the quantitative part. In addition, analysis of Structural Equation Modeling was used in the quantitative part whereas the results of the qualitative part were analyzed through Grounded Theory. The results showed that infrastructural, designers and curriculum planning specialists, student, tenure, lack of entrepreneurship future studies, economic, higher education policies, economic and social consequences, higher education management, cultural, social and curriculum and inefficient quality factors, are the factors of social entrepreneurship in Iran's higher education system, respectively. Therefore, in a general perspective, the phenomenon of the existential agency was identified.
Hasan Fazeli; Abbas Abbaspour; Hamid Rahimian; Ali Delavar
Volume 15, Issue 53 , June 2021, , Pages 23-41
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The aim of this study was to identify the dimensions and components of administrators decision making in educational organization. This research method was a mixed exploratory research. The statistical population in the qualitative section included all school principals in Tehran and expert principals ...
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The aim of this study was to identify the dimensions and components of administrators decision making in educational organization. This research method was a mixed exploratory research. The statistical population in the qualitative section included all school principals in Tehran and expert principals of educational system and the sampling method was purposeful and theoretical. In quantitative part, the statistical population was all school principals in Tehran, which according to Cochran's formula, the number of sample members was 249. Data collection tool in the qualitative part of the interview was semi-structured and retesting and reliability between the two coders were used to check the validity and reliability of the interviews and coding, and they are approved as 0.75 and 0.77 respectively. The collection tool in the quantitative part was a researcher-made questionnaire that its validity was checked and confirmed by content validity method and confirmatory factor analysis. The reliability of the instrument was evaluated and confirmed using Cronbach's alpha method, and it was approved as 0.625. Grounded theory approach was used to analyze the data in the qualitative part. One-sample t-test, Pearson correlation coefficient and confirmatory factor analysis were used to analyze the quantitative part. The findings showed: 1- Dimensions of decision making were classified into eight categories: knowledge, experience and expertise, ethical, psychological, social, human, technical and economic. 2- There was a significant correlation between the dimensions and components. 3- Knowledge dimension and psychological dimension had the highest and lowest mean, respectively.
Akram Dortaj; abbas abbaspour; Ali Delavar; hossein abdollahi
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The purpose of this study was to identify and prioritize the factors affecting the empowerment of technical and vocational school managers in Kerman province in 2015-2016. This research was a mixed method. The statistical population in the qualitative section was informed persons in the field of empowerment ...
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The purpose of this study was to identify and prioritize the factors affecting the empowerment of technical and vocational school managers in Kerman province in 2015-2016. This research was a mixed method. The statistical population in the qualitative section was informed persons in the field of empowerment of technical and vocational conservatory managers who were selected by purposive sampling and chained 20 individuals. In the quantitative section, the statistical population consisted of all managers of technical and vocational schools of Kerman province, who were selected by using sample size determination formula (Sarai, 2014). The data collection tool was qualitative, semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions, and in the quantitative part, a researcher-made questionnaire. The validity of this questionnaire was confirmed by expert opinion and its reliability was calculated. Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the 5 components ranged from 0.83 to 0.91. In qualitative part, using open and axial coding, 5 main components and 17 sub components of manager empowerment were identified and in quantitative part of research, Friedman rank test was performed to prioritize managers' empowerment components and respectively Executive, organizational, professional, communication and personal skills ranks first to fifth. Given the identified skills and their order of importance, it is recommended that these skills be given priority and importance in executive and training plans to empower managers at different levels.
abbas abbaspour; mohsen shakerihoseinabad; hamid rahimian; maghsood farasatkhah
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The purpose of this study was to investigate experts' perceptions and attitudes towards various aspects of public universities accountability in Tehran city. This study used an exploratory mixed methods approach involving 309 faculty members, experts and PhD students in 2015. The main purpose of the ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate experts' perceptions and attitudes towards various aspects of public universities accountability in Tehran city. This study used an exploratory mixed methods approach involving 309 faculty members, experts and PhD students in 2015. The main purpose of the qualitative phase was to develop a background for a questionnaire and provisional model to be used in the quantitative phase. Structural equation modeling analysis during the quantitative phase provided a model that shows the relationships of different factors regarding effective accountability. The result of study provided exploratory model to describe the relationship between casual conditions of balanced accountability to the needs of the stakeholders, accountability strategies, context and environmental aspect of Public universities, and outcomes of it.
Abbas Abbaspour; Hamid Rahimian; Saeed Ghiasi Nodooshan; Ehsan Ekradi
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This research has been conducted to design a model for integrating succession planning and career planning in Iranian Public Universities via the viewpoints of higher education managers and elites, based on the systematic design of Strauss and Corbin’s Grounded Theory method. Method: Therefore, ...
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This research has been conducted to design a model for integrating succession planning and career planning in Iranian Public Universities via the viewpoints of higher education managers and elites, based on the systematic design of Strauss and Corbin’s Grounded Theory method. Method: Therefore, using the purposive sampling method, 15 interviewees including universities’ executive and middle managers, authors in aforementioned field, key informants in the fields of human resource management and higher education were interviewed through semi-structured interviews, and data were extracted from the interviews. Data were analyzed through three steps of coding (open, axial and selective). Findings: The result was 25 core categories placed in a paradigmatic model consisting of the approaches of establishing an integration model (Familiarization, Participation, Organizational learning, Trust-Making, Forethought, Academic Autonomy, and Systemic vision), environmentally intervening conditions (political, Circumstantial, Socio-cultural, International, Legal and policy-making environments), contextual properties (Organizational structure, Organizational climate and culture, Managerial consistency, Resistance against change), causal conditions (Talent pool, Efficient promotion system, Human resource management, Integrating succession planning and career planning, Organizational advocacy of individual attempts, Professionalism), main phenomenon (Meritocracy), and outcomes (Individual and organizational outcomes). This model portrays the implementing process of the model for integrating succession planning and career planning Iranian Public Universities’ and the relations within categories and their dimensions.
