Biography:
Dr. Manoochehr Najmi, studied BSc in Industrial
Engineering (IE) at Sharif University of Technology.
After finishing MSc at Tarbiat Modares University in
IE, he pursued his PhD in Quality Management at the
University of Liverpool, UK. Right after finishing
his PhD in 1998, he joined Cranfield University, UK
as a Post Doctorate Research Officer. He then joined
the Graduate School of Management and Economics of
Sharif University of Technology in 2000. He very
soon was appointed as the Dean of the School in 2002
and stayed in this position until 2006. He also
served as the Vice-President of the University in
Administration and Financial Affairs for three years
from 2015 to 2017. Dr Najmi’s research interests are
marketing strategy and Business Process Management.
He has taught Principles of Marketing, Marketing
Management, Marketing Strategy and Quality
Management.
Membership:
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Member of the Iranian Society of Management
Science.
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Member of the Association of Sharif University
of Technology Graduates.
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One of the founders of the Iranian Society for
Productivity Development.
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Honoured Member of the Iranian Society for
Management Consultants.
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One of the founders of the Iranian Society of
Marketing.
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Former member of the Academy of Marketing
Studies (AMS), USA.
Hobbies and Interests:
I am interested in Football, Ski and Table Tennis. I was
a member of Ski and Table Tennis Clubs at Sharif
University of Technology during my BSc program. I also
was a member of the Iranian 5-a-side football team
(Persia) who won the Liverpool University Cup in 1996. I
was also a member of the faculty football team who got
the first rank at the University in January 2005.
Journal Papers (English)
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Najmi, M. and Kehoe, D.F. (2000), “An Integrated
Framework for Post-ISO 9000 Quality
Development”, International Journal of Quality
and Reliability Management (IJQRM), Vol. 17, No.
3.
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Najmi, M. and Kehoe, D.F. (2001), “The Role of
Performance Measurement in Promoting Quality
Development beyond ISO 9000”, International
Journal of Operations and Production Management
(IJOPM), Vol. 18, Nos. 1&2.
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Najmi, M., Rigas, J. and Fan, I-S (2005), "A
Framework to Review Performance Measurement
Systems", Business Process Management Journal,
Vol.11, No. 2.
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Najmi, M., Ehsani, R., Sharbatoghlie, A. And
Saidi-Mehrabad, M. (2009), “Developing an
Integrated Dynamic Model for Evaluating the
Performance of Research Projects Based on
Multiple Attribute Utility Theory”, Journal of
Modelling in Management (JM2), Vol. 4, No. 2,
pp. 114-133.
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Najmi, M., Sharbatoghlie A., Jafarieh A. (2010),
“Tourism Market Segmentation in Iran”,
International Journal of Tourism Research, Vol.
12, No. 5, pp. 497-509.
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Najmi, M., Atefi, Y. and Mirbagheri S.A. (2012),
“Attitude Toward Brand: An Integrative Look at
Mediators and Moderators”, Academy of Marketing
Studies Journal (AMSJ), Vol. 16, No. 1.
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Najmi, M., Etebari, M. and Emami, S. (2012), “A
Framework to Review Performance Prism”,
International Journal of Operations and
Production Management (IJOPM), Vol. 32,
Issue:10, pp. 1124-1146.
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Najafi, S., Sharifi H., Soleimanof, S. and
Najmi, M. (2013), “An Empirical Study of firm’s
Absorptive Capacity dimensions, Supplier
Involvement, and New Product Development
Performance”, International Journal of
Production Research, Vol. 51, Issue 11, pp.
3385-3403.
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Ghasem Rezaei, Hamed Gholami, Awaluddin Bin
Mohamed Shaharou, Muhamad Zameri Mat Saman,
Norhayati Zakuan and Najmi, M. (2016),
“Relationship among culture of excellence,
organisational performance and knowledge
sharing: proposed conceptual framework”,
International Journal of Productivity and
Quality Management, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 446-465.
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Ghasem Rezaeia, Abbas Mardanib, Aslan Amat
Seninb, Kuan Yew Wongc, Laleh Sadeghi,
Manoochehr Najmi, Awaluddin Mohamed Shaharouna,
(2018), “Relationship between culture of
excellence and organisational performance in
Iranian manufacturing companies”, Total Quality
Management and Business Excellence, Vol. 29 No.
1-2, pp. 94-115.
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Farnoosh Bagheri, Rasoul Noorossana, Manoochehr
Najmi, (2019), “The Extent of EFQM Effectiveness
in Routine and Non-Routine Organizations Based
on Multivariate Techniques- An Empirical Study”,
Operational Research, Vol. 19, Issue 1, pp.
237–267.
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Youness Eaidgah, Amir Abdekhodaee, Manoochehr
Najmi, Alireza Arab Maki, (2018) “Holistic
performance management of virtual teams in
third-party logistics environments”, Team
Performance Management: An International
Journal, Vol. 24, No. 30-4, pp. 186-202.
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Seyed Alireza Mirbagheri and Manoochehr Najmi,
(2019), “Consumers’ engagement with social media
activation campaigns: Construct
conceptualization and scale development”,
Psychology & Marketing (P&M), Vol. 36, No. 4,
pp. 376-394.
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Mehdi Ghandi Arani and Manoochehr Najmi (2019),
“Marketing and Competitive Advantage: From
Formation of Organizational Culture to Achieving
Customer Value-based Advantage”, Journal of
Social Sciences Research, Vol. 5, Issue. 9, pp.
1293-1302.
Conference Papers (English)
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Najmi, M. and Kehoe, D.F. (1996), “Post-ISO 9000
Quality Development in the Customer-Supplier
Chain”, The First International Symposium on
Advanced Manufacturing Processes, Systems and
Technology (AMPST 96), Bradford, UK.
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Najmi, M. and Kehoe, D.F. (1996), “Beyond ISO
9000: A Performance Measurement System for the
Customer-Supplier Chain”, The International
Manufacturing Engineering Conference (IMEC),
Storr, Connecticut, USA.
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Najmi, M. and Kehoe, D.F. (1996), “Deriving
Business Advantages from Quality Development”,
The 1st Annual International Conference on
Industrial Engineering Theory, Applications and
Practice, Houston, Texas, USA.
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Najmi, M., Rigas J. and Fan, I-S (1999), “A
Methodology to link Performance Indicators to
Process Models”, 15th National Conference on
Manufacturing Research (NCMR), Bath, UK
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Najmi, M., Fan, I-S and Kehoe D.F. (1999),
“Process Based Performance Management as an
Implementation Approach to TQM”, The 4th Annual
International Conference on Industrial
Engineering Theory, Application and Practice,
San Antonio, Texas, USA.
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Najmi, M. and Fan, I-S (2002), “Concurrent
Engineering in Total Quality Management
Environment”, Proceedings of the 8th
International Conference on Concurrent
Enterprising (ICE 2002), pp 79-85, Rome, Italy.
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Najmi, M. (2003), "The Role of Process
Improvement in Innovation: An overview of SMEs
Programs in Iran", Symposium on Technological
Innovation in SMEs, APO, Taipei, Republic of
China.
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Najmi, M. (2003), "The Role of Process
Improvement in Innovation: An overview of SMEs
Programs in Iran", Symposium on Technological
Innovation in SMEs, APO, Taipei, Republic of
China.
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Sepehri, M. and Najmi, M. (2008), “Managing an
Experience Operations”, the 6th International
Conference on Management, 7-10 July, Athens,
Greece.
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Najmi, M., Sepehri M., and Hashemi, S, (2010),
“The Evaluation of Business Intelligence
Maturity Level In Iranian Banking Industry”,
IEEE The 17th International Conference on
Industrial Engineering and Engineering
Management”, Xiamen, P. R. China.
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Sepehri M., Najmi, M. and Fayazbakhsh K.,
(2010), “Cooperative Supply Chain Management
Using a Grid-based Optimizer”, IEEE The 17th
International Conference on Industrial
Engineering and Engineering Management”, Xiamen,
P. R. China.
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Seyed Alireza Mirbagheri and Manoochehr Najmi,
(2018), “Social media activation campaigns: What
makes the engaging and how they influence the
brand image”, 2018 Global Marketing Conference,
Tokyo, Japan.
Conference Papers (Persian)
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Najmi, M., Zarei B. and Hosseini S., (2002),
“BSC and the EFQM Model: consistency or
contradiction”, The First National Conference on
Performance Management, Tehran, Iran.
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Najmi, M. (2002), “Excellence Levels in Quality
Management”, The First Annual Congress on
Quality, Tehran, Iran.
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Najmi M. and Hosseini, S. (2002), “Business
Excellence Models: An Improving Image of
Organizations”, The Third International
Conference on Quality Management, Tehran, Iran.
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Najmi, M. (2003), "Measuring the Performance of
an Organization's Processes: Methodology and
Case Study", The Fourth Conference of Quality
Managers, Tehran, Iran.
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Najmi, M., Hosseini S. (2003), "ISO 9000:2000:
An strategic turnaround towards Excellence
Models", The First International Management
Conference, December, Tehran, Iran.
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Kianfar, F., Najm,i M. and Ebrahimi, M. (2004),
“Calculation of Risk Priority Number in FMEA
using Fuzzy Logic”, The Second International
Management Conference, December, Tehran, Iran.
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Sharbatoghlie A., Najmi M., Naseri A., Shams A.,
(2010), “Value Creation and Measuring the Firm’s
CSR Performance based on BSC”, The 8th
International Management Conference, Tehran,
Iran.
Books (Persian)
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Najmi M. and Hosseini S. (2003), "The EFQM
Excellence Model: from idea to application",
IPHRD, Reprinted 7 times.
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Nili, M., Najmi, M., et. al. (2003, reprinted in
2004), "Industrial Development Strategy", Book
published by Sharif University of Technology.
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Najmi, M. et. al. (2003), “Assessing the
Excellency of Performance in Industrial
Organizations”, Book published by Sharif
University of Technology.
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Najmi, M. (2010), “The EFQM Excellence Award
Model 2010”, IPHRD. Reprinted 7 times.
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Najmi, M. (2014), “The EFQM Excellence Award
Model 2013”, Industrial Management Institute.
Reprinted 7 times.
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Najmi, M. and Bagheri, M. (2020), “The EFQM 2020
Model”, Industrial Management Institute.
Total Quality Management including Business Process
Management (both in Farsi and English)
Marketing Management (both in Farsi and English)
Consumer Behaviour
Marketing Strategy
Marketing Seminar
*** Recognised for the distinguished faculty member in
academic year of 2005-2006 for the quality of teaching.
PhD Theses:
1-"Developing Sales and Marketing Cooperation: Mechanisms and Consequences" by "Mehdi Ghandi Arani" in 2016, December.
2-"Consumers’ engagement with brands in digital environment " by "Seyyed Alireza Mirbagheri" in 2018, July.
Master Dissertations:
Supervised 34 master dissertations since 2003.