Management
Z. Delshad; M. Rabani; H. Dehghan Dehnavi
Abstract
The green supply chain management model is for environmental protection, which companies could use to reduce negative environmental impacts and achieve the optimal use of resources and energy. The study is an attempt to identify and develop a similar model for the petrochemical industry of Iran’s ...
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The green supply chain management model is for environmental protection, which companies could use to reduce negative environmental impacts and achieve the optimal use of resources and energy. The study is an attempt to identify and develop a similar model for the petrochemical industry of Iran’s Fars province using Grounded Theory as a qualitative data technique and the DEMATEL method to test its effectiveness and efficiency. The data collection was based on documents as well as interviews with 20 experts selected through snowball sampling. To analyze the qualitative data, three stages of open, axial and selective coding were used. Criteria were also prioritized using the DEMATEL method and questionnaire. The results indicated the extraction of 21 axial and 90 open coding, which were placed in the form of a paradigm model. Then, using pairwise comparisons in the said method, and the final ranking of selected criteria of green supply chain, showed that the central process design, customers and other external institutions, green innovation, environmental management approaches, human resource management, environmental performance improvement, management and optimization of energy consumption (with values greater than the threshold) have a higher degree of importance (weight).
Management
M. Malekmohamadi; M. Mozaffari
Abstract
Proper management of water resource patterns is considered as one of the main infrastructure for sustainable development in the energy sector. Drought, population growth, industrialization and urbanization are the factors that have contributed to the country's water supply crisis. In this regard, social ...
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Proper management of water resource patterns is considered as one of the main infrastructure for sustainable development in the energy sector. Drought, population growth, industrialization and urbanization are the factors that have contributed to the country's water supply crisis. In this regard, social marketing has an effective role in reforming the pattern of consumption in the energy sector, especially in the consumption of water resources. In this research, in order to determine the relationship between effective factors in social marketing and its role in voluntarily changing water of consumption and effective management, from 115 knowledgeable experts in the field of water resources as a statistical society, asked about the factors that associated the pattern of consumption in form of a questionnaire. Based on the analysis, it was found that three factors of social marketing (location, product and culture) have a significant relationship, and then by ranking the social marketing factors with fuzzy TOPSIS method, the factor of location as the most important factor was obtained (0.644).
Interdisciplinary
H. Danaeefard; N. Amrollahi Biuki; S. H. Fatemi Aghda
Abstract
Critical hermeneutics is rooted in philosophy of knowledge, in general, and in the methodology of human sciences, in particular. This approach is methodologically considered as a qualitative study with the aim of achieving internal understanding in various fields such as linguistic, longitudinal and ...
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Critical hermeneutics is rooted in philosophy of knowledge, in general, and in the methodology of human sciences, in particular. This approach is methodologically considered as a qualitative study with the aim of achieving internal understanding in various fields such as linguistic, longitudinal and experimental sciences. Jürgen Habermas, one of the precursors of Frankfurt School, is the pioneer of this method. In 1981, he published one of his best works entitled “Communicative Interaction Theory”, and added the symbolic aspects of social interaction to Frankfurt critical theory. Thus, critical hermeneutics does not pursue a “unifying answer”; rather it seeks to portray the social phenomena that are derived through discourse. Discourse, as a means of obtaining data, is used in critical hermeneutics and as Habermas posited, the essential prerequisite for discourse is to provide space devoid of any trace of power. In this qualitative study, the researchers conducted in-depth interviews with individuals, and by transcribing the interviews, converted the phenomenon into text. These texts constitute the research data of the study. Then, the researchers interpreted the textual form of the phenomena and represented the obtained results in several limited themes, each of which is further split into certain limited categories. Since the main advantage of critical hermeneutics is developing and reorienting the existing interpretative approaches to the study of management, this paper attempts to examine this approach as a qualitative research method in organization and management studies, and represent its process and key features.
Management
Mohamadreza Mohamadiyoun; hojjatollah vahdati; S.Najmoddin Mousavi; Amir Hoshang nazarpouri
Abstract
The current research aimed to investigate the causes of hypocritical behavior and provide a model to rectify it by focusing on the function of boundary actors in education. This research has been done with a critical paradigm and qualitative approach. Since management works with and through others, the ...
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The current research aimed to investigate the causes of hypocritical behavior and provide a model to rectify it by focusing on the function of boundary actors in education. This research has been done with a critical paradigm and qualitative approach. Since management works with and through others, the lived experience and knowledge of experts in various fields of human sciences, including psychology and sociology, philosophy, history, jurisprudence, religious sciences, language and literature, and ethics have been used. The data was transcribed, and using the thematic analysis method, sampling, and coding continued until the theoretical sufficiency (saturation) was reached. As a result, two axial themes for the causes of hypocritical behavior under the names of social structure with the categories of (organizational monopoly, authoritarian thinking of some managers, traditional management of some managers, stubbornness of some managers, instrumental use of religious beliefs and feeling of injustice by some people) and the action or behavior of people with the categories of (not dealing with hypocritical behavior, denial of individuality and historical contexts) have appeared.
Considering the requirements and limitations of the education system and the priority of addressing educational issues, the contribution of this research is the central theme of boundary actors, with the categories of (moral education, psychology education, human rights values, foundation building, civic action, social capital restoration, knowledge management and the principle of meritocracy) was manifested in giving importance to philosophical topics and critical thinking methods, teaching ethics and teaching human rights principles and provided solutions.
