Production Issue Scrutinizing of National Iranian Oil Company

issue scrutinizing is a multi-dimensional phenomenon that has been paid less attention as an independent stage in the policy-making process. Weakness in scrutinizing the issues causes ineffective policies. Using a comprehensive framework to scrutinize policy issues provides the possibility for policy makers to determine and deal with priority issues and strategies efficiently and effectively. This research provides components to understand policy issues in the field of production of National Iranian Oil Company. This research is an adaptation of a doctorate thesis with the title of presenting the problem-solving framework of production in the National Iranian Oil Company and it presents a conceptual model that is the result of qualitative content analysis of 252 documents, 169 of which are first category and 83 non-first category and in the form of 20 The concept is grouped. This research has counted 3243 concepts, 264 secondary components and 16 main components during three stages of open, central and selective coding. The results of this research show that the components related to governance, interested groups, influential groups, problem sensitivity, problem domain, the time period of occurrence and the costs related to the problem have an effect on the process of scrutinizing production policy issues in the National Iranian Oil Company.