Examining the Antecedents of Sustainable Development in Public Organizations Using Intuitive Fuzzy Cognitive Map

The sustainable development in public organizations has become a principle in the framework of today's organizations. The purpose of this article is to present a causal model to investigate the antecedents of sustainable development of public organizations. The approach used for data analysis and conclusion is intuitive fuzzy cognitive map. In this article, in the first stage, an attempt was made to create a causal model for the antecedents extracted from the literature and interviews with 15 experts of public organizations in Kerman city. In the second stage, by creating a scenario for two external antecedents “attention of stakeholders” and “Expectations for greater transparency” were observed, which changes have significant effects on increasing investment for infrastructure development, paying attention to clients in providing services, approving and complying with regulations, and the requirement to minimize environmental impacts. On the other hand, in this article, it has been tried to determine which antecedent for sustainable development has the most and the least influence. Based on the results, “increasing social awareness” has the most influence and “company culture” as an antecedent that can be considered with It is the highest degree of centrality.