مصطفي شفيعي نژاد

Abstract: One of the most important goals of companies is to produce with high added value and carry out activities that bring the necessary complexity to pass through raw sales and to be in the high positions of the value chain, so that they can benefit from more profit in this way. The purpose of this research is to investigate the factors affecting the increase of added value in the stages of global production by Iranian companies, therefore, Functional upgrade is considered and the factors affecting it are explored. In the past, the impact of technological capability and learning on this model of Upgrade has been emphasized separately. But the simultaneous effect of these two capabilities should be clarified. In this research, the direct effect of technological capability on functional improvement and its indirect effect, along with the effect of learning capability, have been investigated. In this research, the proposed conceptual model was built based on existing backgrounds and eva‎luated using quantitative approach and structural equations. The statistical population of this research is the knowledge-based and technological companies that are somehow related to the value chain and are present and active in it in various ways. The number of samples under investigation was 122 companies, after collecting data from these companies, the reliability and validity of the model was eva‎luated and the hypotheses were eva‎luated using the partial quadratic structural equation model and Smart PLS3 software. The findings show that, in addition to the direct and positive effect of technological capability on functional improvement, this capability has a positive effect on functional improvement through the mediation of learning ability. Also, the direct and positive effect of learning ability on functional improvement was also observed. Another hypothesis examined in this study was the direct and positive impact of technology capability on learning capability, and the results confirm this hypothesis. In order to strengthen the two capabilities that are effective in improving the performance of Iran's knowledge-based and technological companies and to improve the position of these companies in the global value chain , there is a need for supportive policies macro. Therefore, it is suggested that the government, with its targeted support for the export of knowledge-based companies, provides a platform for the presence of these companies in international networks and chains, so that companies that have the necessary technical ability can use the opportunity Also, managers and policy makers of these companies can play an effective role in promoting their company by focusing on these capabilities.

قابليت فناورانه , ارتقا عملكردي , قابليت يادگيري , زنجيره ارزش جهاني , شركت‌هاي دانش‌بنيان

Technology capabilities , learning capabilities , functional upgrading , global value chain , knowledge-based firms

Mostafa Shafiei nezhad

Dr. Amir Zakery