Identifying and Investigating Teamwork Barriers in Iranian Knowledge-based Organizations and Tehran University of Science and Technology Parks Through Fuzzy Approach

According to the importance and€ significant role of teamwork in knowledge-based organizations, this study aims to discover and investigate teamwork barriers in Iranian knowledge-based organizations using the 3C model. This study is an applied research in terms of purpose and its method is a survey descriptive type in viewpoint of data gathering. The statistical universe includes university professors, experts and managers of Iranian knowledge-based organizations. 24 members of the above population were chosen as the research sample universe based on snow-ball sampling method. In present research, first of all, 130 teamwork barriers were taken into identification, primary codes were analyzed and revised many times and 22 indices were identified, then, Fuzzy Delphi technique was used in order to examine the results. Finally, 14 factors were identified as the teamwork barriers in Iranian knowledge-based organizations and classified in three groups of content, co-structural and context.