Explanation of the“Strategic Assessment Model” and verification of its impacts on the “Managerial Research Scientific Process” (Case Study: Iranian Research Institutions)

• Published in: Pacific Business Review International Vol. 9; no. 7
• Main Authors: Mohammad Mahmoudi Maymand, Amir Houshang Samaeizadeh
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Udaipur Pacific Academy of Higher Education and Research 01.01.2017
• Subjects: Competitive advantage; Decision making; Strategic management
• ISSN: 0974-438X

The variable “Research Scientific Process” (RSP) includes three levels such as Hypothesizing, Modeling, and Theorizing. These levels are affected by some stages such as the initial question, exploratory studying, hypothesizing, modeling, observing, analyzing, and concluding as it seems that the assessment of researchlevels and its stages, strategically improve, facilitate and accelerate the implications which are resulted by researchers at the Scientific Research Institutes. In the present study, the “explanation” of a “Strategic Assessment Model” (SAM)is the primary objective to “explain” the role of strategic components in evaluating the “Managerial Research Scientific Process” levels, in which the SAM's components include Compatibility, Coordination, Competitive advantage and Conceivability (strategic mixed as 4Cs),while the “verification” of the SAM's impacts on the “Managerial Scientific Research Process” is the secondary objective. In these reasons, the hypotheses and the model of the study have been explained by using the method of multivariate decision making called MADM and through the decision making models called G-AHP and ELECTRE to collect and combine the opinions of the experts, including three full-time faculty members of the universities and the higher education institutions of the country who are the reputed Iranian specialists in the field of strategic management. Also, to verify the impacts of this explained model on the research scientific process levels, the number of 384 people was randomly sampled by an unlimited community sampling formula. The explained model introduced as the conceptual model of the study and it was examined by the descriptive-correlative method, which uses the standard questionnaire in the form of statistical test of Chi-square, factor analysis, Kolmogorov–Smirnov, Structural Equation Model (SEM) and Bartlett's Sphericity. Finally, the verification of the study examined the impacts of the Strategic Assessment components on the Managerial Scientific Research Process levels, in which some structures verified according to the conceptual model of the study. Keywords: Compatibility, Coordination, Competitive advantage, Conceivability, Hypothesizing Modelling, Theorizing.