Project Supply Chain Risk Management in Gas Transfer Pipeline: Grounded Theory Approach

Regarding to the increasing importance of supply chain risk in the last decade in general and projects especially, in this research the dimensions and elements of supply chain risk of projects have been determined. Therefore, Fars Gas Transfer Pipeline projects were considered to discover codes and themes according to the phenomena by using Grounded Theory (Corbin and Strauss method). Based on final paradigm model, project supply chain risk management issue was categorized in 6 main dimensions, 19 sub-dimensions and 57 codes. The results show that supply chain risks as a core phenomenon, consists of environmental risks, organizational risks and network risks. To do this, we use theoretical sampling and interview with 10 experts from Gasstate company and some suppliers. These interview was deep one because we employed open questionnaire. Then by using open encoding, axial encoding and selective encoding, paradigm model was extracted. The main phenomenon placed the center of model and other themes joined to that... .