Journal of Business Management Perspective

Journal of Business Management Perspective

Identifying the key factors of success in the growth and development of knowledge-based companies, the effectiveness of policymaking, and managerial policymaking with the Fuzzy Cognitive Map method

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Ali Shariatnejad
Assistant professor,, Department of Management, Faculty of Management and Economics, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran
10.48308/jbmp.2024.233646.1565
Abstract
The current research was carried out to identify the key factors of success in the growth and development of knowledge-based companies, using the FCM method. This research is in the category of applied research, which was conducted with a descriptive and exploratory approach, and in terms of the collected data, it has a mixed qualitative and quantitative nature, and in terms of the research philosophy, it has an inductive comparative approach.The statistical population of the research is the experts, and 30 of them were selected using the snowball sampling method based on the principle of theoretical adequacy.The data collection tool is in the quantitative part of the questionnaire and in the qualitative part of the interview, whose validity and reliability were confirmed by content validity and retest method for questionnaires and theoretical validity and intra-coder inter-coder reliability for interviews. The analysis method in the qualitative part is the method of content analysis and coding with Atlas.ti software, and in the quantitative part of the research, data analysis was done with the FCM approach. The results of the research show that the provision of various effective support programs such as full tax exemption, allocation of tax credit and research and development grant policy, increasing the level of facilities of the Innovation and Prosperity Fund, extensive financial and practical support for the projects of the Elite Foundation and the Technology Support Fund, and the formation of a scientific and technological corridor are the most important factors in the development of knowledge-based companies.
Keywords
growth
development
knowledge-based companies
policy and management policy
Subjects
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