Cognitive leadership is a gateway to achieving sustainable superior performance - an applied study in international companies operating in the Kurdistan region
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Cognitive leadership, sustainable superior performanceAbstract
The Role of Cognitive Entrepreneur in Achieving the Superior Sustainable
Performance
This study aims to identify the role of entrepreneurial in achieving the superior
sustainable performance, and attempts to study the possibility of using the
cognitive entrepreneurship approach in improving sustainability and superiority
of performance. So we began the study by the problem expressed in a number of
intellectual and practical questions, aim to answer them explain the philosophy
and theoretical implications of intellectual variables addressed in the study,
namely, (Entrepreneur Cognitive - Superior Sustainable Performance). It is one
of the modern topics on the Arab and Iraqi environment, and then diagnose the
level of importance and impact and the possibility of their application in the
companies. This study was applied to a group of international companies
operating in the Kurdistan region of Iraq through a sample composed of 129
member occupy senior management positions which has been designed to collect
and measure the necessary data. In order to achieve researcher effort to
illustrate the effects of the variables have been dealt with theoretical concepts for
the study variables and thus contributing to the formulation of the necessary
tools to measure the availability of these variables in the companies under study
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