Modeling the Competitiveness of State-Owned Industrial Companies in the International Market by Using Blockchain Technology (Case Study: Sarcheshmeh Copper Complex)
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Competitiveness, International Competitiveness,, Blockchain TechnologyAbstract
The aim of the present study was to model the competitiveness of state-owned industrial companies in the international market by using blockchain technology. The research method was mixed. The statistical population in the model design section was professors of public administration, information technology, IT and information systems management in higher education centers, senior managers and senior managers of the informatics department, international marketing and sales department in state-owned industrial companies, in the accreditation section, specialists and experts knowledgeable about the research topic at the national level and in the quantitative section, all managers and experts in the marketing and sales, informatics and information technology and international departments and senior, middle and operational managers of the Sarcheshmeh Copper Complex in the winter of 1403, totaling 646 people. In the qualitative part, 18 experts were selected using snowball sampling method, in the validation part, 16 experts were selected using purposive sampling method, and in the quantitative part, 242 samples were selected using stratified random sampling method. For data analysis, in the qualitative part, thematic analysis method with initial coding, theme construction, and theme refinement using semi-structured interview tool in Atlas software was used, in the validation part, the Delphi method was used in three stages with the expert assessment checklist tool in SPSS software, and in the quantitative part, the structural equation modeling method was used with a 96-item questionnaire tool in Smart PLS software. To determine validity and reliability in the qualitative part, the necessary studies including acceptability (expert review) and confirmability (expert review) were used, and in the validation stage, the content of the expert assessment checklist was approved by several academic and organizational experts in terms of understandability and clarity, and its reliability was calculated and confirmed by the test-retest method as 0.83. In the quantitative phase, the validity of the questionnaire was confirmed in three ways: face, content (CVI between 0.8 and 1 and CVR between 0.5 and 0.9) and construct (convergent validity range between 0.563 and 0.727 and divergent validity greater than the correlation of the construct with other constructs). The reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed in three ways: factor loading coefficients (more than 0.4), Cronbach's alpha (0.710 to 0.820) and composite reliability (0.794 to 0.889). According to the results of the qualitative section, the final model had 6 main themes as follows: 1. Technological transformation and innovation, 2. Smart supply chain transparency, 3. Organizational capacity building, 4. Legal and policy environment, 5. Sustainable economic advantage and 6. Interaction with international markets, 24 sub-themes and 96 criteria. The results of the validation section indicated confirmation of the main and sub-themes identified in the qualitative section. The results of the quantitative section indicated confirmation and explanatory power of the research model components in a real statistical population
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