نشریه اندیشه مدیریت راهبردی
سال پانزدهم شماره 1 (پیاپی 29، بهار و تابستان 1400)

In this research, using the documentary method, an acceptable and independent definition of the two words "civilization" and "modern Islamic civilization" has been presented. Then, the content analysis method is used to analyze and examine parts of Imam Khamenei's speeches about the duties, roles and functions of the Islamic University with a civilization approach. This approach was based on an acceptable and autonomous definition resulting from the first step of the research.The distinguishing functions achieved for the university in the process of forming a new Islamic civilization based on Imam Khamenei's system of thought are; "Creating and nurturing the intellect of the country", "Training competent and efficient manpower", "Creating and strengthening the ground for student awakening", "Laying the ground for scientific growth and breaking the dogmas of the Western sciences", "Wise protection of the Islamic Revolution and its principles". This study showed that if the universities at the level of the Islamic Revolution can fulfill their main functions with a civilized approach, the results will be as follows: Training the force required by the Islamic State, training the specialized and skilled force required by the Islamic society, maintaining and promoting the level of freshness of the ideals of the Islamic Revolution and the aspirations of future generations, criticizing the foundations of Western civilization, training the force required to protect the ideals of the Islamic Revolution and producing the sciences required for the formation of a new Islamic civilization.

The importance and status of the educational system of a country, especially the higher education is undeniable. Based on the strategic documents of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the statements of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, the system of higher education of the country is proceeding towards scientific marjaiyat or authority. In regard to the importance of humanities in the building of modern Islamic civilization and the mission of Imam Sadiq University (ISU) as the first center expected to assume this role by the Supreme Leader, this research has been conducted to identify and prioritize the obstacles of achieving scientific authority in humanities with the case study of ISU.After reviewing the literature with the aim of presenting a sum-up of past research activities and identifying the initial barriers to scientific authority, questions were obtained to conduct a semi-structured interview with experts in this field. Then, the research achieved its goal using a mixed method in two stages: Firstly, holding an interview to identify the barriers ;secondly, prioritizing these barriers through the importance-performance analysis (IPA). After analyzing the content of the interviews and combining the barriers, forty one obstacles were identified in seven categories. In the end, the barriers were analyzed from "effectiveness" and "feasibility" perspectives, and the final prioritization was presented based on the accumulation of the two perspectives.

In recent decades, although public administration has concentrated on the complex concept of performance and its evaluation, it has simultaneously neglected ministers and their departments, or, if done, it is still at an initial stage. The importance of performance evaluation is not concealed to anyone, and theoretically, when we move up in the organizational hierarchy its importance grows till we reach the ministers at the top of government agencies and at the borderline of politics and administration. In addition, science in today's world has not only become a tool for states' power and domination, but it determines the development of countries. Hence, the great role of science and technology organizations and their leaders in countries’ development. Considering the lack of a performance evaluation model for top administrators, this study has addressed the Iranian Minister of Science, Research and Technology and interviewed 42 experts following a combination of quota, targeted and theoretical sampling methods. This resulted in 37 organizing themes and 9 general themes through thematic analysis as follows: higher education development, beneficial science production, higher education preparation, managerial achievements, policy-making achievements, political achievements, promotion of science, university and scientists, Islamization of universities, scientific diplomacy and budget management.

Providing resources for public education in recent decades, the age of complexity and uncertainty, has been one of the challenges in the formal education of countries. In educational systems not benefitting sufficiently from the government budget, the role of markets and the private sector gradually became more prominent, but to fund the system at its best and make it immune from the negative side of the market-based conditions, some plans were developed to engage students’ parents as participatory agents in choosing the schools they wanted. Those plans included projects such as issuing vouchers and concluding various contracts with the private sector to contribute to especially public schools’ earnings to ensure the quality of education in the competitive environment. The purpose of this study is to identify the pattern of supplying school resources in the Islamic Republic of Iran. It is qualitative and phenomenological. By interviewing 15 educational administrators who agreed with participatory management in schools and analyzing them, management mechanisms for utilizing people's capacities were identified. Research findings showed that the manager needs to move away from traditional roles to lead the partnership through mechanisms of awareness, capacity building, opportunity building, and institutionalization by observing behavioral principles such as competence, ethics, independence (side by side with communication) and value-laden acts. Based on this, the model of providing resources in Iranian schools is a public model and not a government model with a new structure.

Today, managing the national image and aligning other international actors with one’s own interests and policies comprises half of the power policies, and to achieve this, the international political marketing seeks to present a favorable image of a country in the international arena. The research question is: What are the dimensions and components of the presented image of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the years 2005 - 2009 in the international arena? Due to its exploratory nature, this research lacks a hypothesis. In other words, here, the researcher seeks to obtain information that can help him understand the subject of the research well. The research method is qualitative using content analysis. The data collection method is based on the available documents about the 9th administration president's interviews with foreign media. Based on this, the sample data, including Mr. Ahmadinejad's interviews with foreign media from 2005 to 2009, were analyzed using content analysis method. The results show that the image of the Islamic Republic of Iran presented to the public opinion worldwide in the years 2005-2009, and in the context of the 9th administration foreign policy discourse, has three identity formation components: religious identity, revolutionary identity, and civilizational identity, having as their core the elements of right-seeking and justice-seeking.

The political marketing interdisciplinary field of study has always been affected by marketing concepts; the relationship approach is one of those that brings about a new trend of research some of which is known as Political Relationship Marketing (PRM). This research has as its main objective to review and summarize the literature on PRM and to explain the fundamental concepts in shaping it. Moreover, due to scattered research ont PRM and also lack of a comprehensive framework for applying it, the qualitative research method of Systematic Literature Review was used. Domestic and foreign authentic databases were used to search and thematic analysis technique was applied to analyze the data. The results showed that six central categories have had the highest frequency in our research: political market research, political marketing communication, political marketing strategy, post-election political marketing, internal political marketing and political branding. The consequences indicate that researchers by putting the classical thinking of political marketing aside believe that relational political interactions can enhance collaboration and coopetition instead of inappropriate political conflicts. The scientific and practical importance of PRM requires its playing a maximum role at macro and micro levels of management so that it could come to fruition. Interactions between political entities and people should be societal and continuous instead of isolated and periodical. Moving toward this desired state requires political stakeholders’ change in thinking and acting if they want to show more committed long-term interactions.

The purpose of this study was to provide a model for electoral policies agenda with a political marketing approach. It is a qualitative research done by Strauss and Corbin grounded theory method that relies on three stages of open, axial and selective coding. In this context, deep interviews were conducted with election experts, representatives, governors and university professors using theoretical sampling with snow ball technique. The number of samples continued until the responses reached the saturation stage (with 17 interviews). The data analysis was performed in three stages: open coding, axial coding, and selected coding and then explained according to the paradigmatic pattern of the intended grounded theory model. From the perspective of the participants the following items were recognized: causal conditions such as executive problems of electoral institution, weakness of the party system, misunderstanding of political marketing, legal and supervisory problems; main research phenomenon i.e. setting the agenda; contextual issues such as religious, ethnic, and structural elements; intervening elements such as cultural, political, economic dimensions.  Strategies are in three categories: solving administrative and supervisory problems, improving the understanding of political marketing, strengthening the democratic party system, and the consequences including:   promoting the party system, promoting the country’s electoral system and the country’s political development.

Four decades after the Islamic Revolution in Iran and stabilization of the system and remarkable achievements in different fields, the dominant management thoughts are far from Islamic expectations. This study is to promote and internalize the standard management of Islamic Revolution based on the vision and thoughts of the Supreme Leader in the organizations and contribute to achieving the goals and aspirations of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The research method is qualitative, based on the grounded theory approach, and inductive. In terms of purpose, the research is of explanatory type and the data collection is theoretical sampling extracted from the Leader’s statements and guidelines from its outset till 2019. Defining concepts and appropriate issues from them and interviewing experts were all considered during the construction and revision of the model. The obtained 19 categories and 141 concepts are categorized into causal, contextual, intervening conditions and eventual strategies and consequences. Considering the status of the Islamic and revolutionary values, the revolutionary management pattern is presented on the basis of the values and progress of its consequences. Commitment to the Supreme Leader’s commands and gaining inspiration from his statements could be a good model for growth and perfection in the decade of progress and justice.

In recent years, due to the changing patterns and paradigms in the field of public administration and also the emerging requirements and conditions of the contemporary world, the shortcomings, weaknesses, and consequences of restricting the oversight of the public sector to official and governmental bodies have become more and more obvious. In this regard, the recourse to public oversight in governmental organizations as one of the effective regulatory approaches has increased significantly compared to the past, and consequently the tendency of researchers in the field of governance, political science, and public administration to public oversight studies has increased significantly. In Iran, researchers have turned to this field from their own perspectives and presented their findings. Although valuable efforts have been made in this field, studies in the field of public oversight have not yet achieved the necessary richness and scientific adequacy and have not been able to provide the necessary theoretical foundations to play a significant role in institutionalizing it in the administrative system. The present study, with a pathological approach, analyzes indigenous articles authored in the field of public oversight over a period of 15 years (from 2006 to 2020) using the meta-synthesis method. The results show the most important concepts, categories and weaknesses in this field and has identified the study gaps. Lack of diverse research methods, poor support for research in the field of public oversight, lack of study on various variables, more focus on the better known components of public oversight and poor studies in recognizing its unknown parts, are the most important weaknesses existing in related indigenous studies. Finally, a framework for future studies in the field and some applicable suggestions have been provided.

The Endowment and Charity Organization is the only government institution in charge of organizing and managing endowments in Iran. If the problems of the organization are not sufficiently understood in terms of depth and scope, the proposed solutions will be ineffective. This study seeks to provide a comprehensive system of endowment organization issues and identify its priorities. To do this, the study was conducted in two phases, qualitative and quantitative. In the qualitative phase, the data obtained from the review of documents and finally interviews with managers and experts were analyzed using the content analysis method. The obtained model includes 56 key problems which are classified into two levels: micro problems and macro problems. Micro-level issues seek to examine the process and executive problems in the direction of achieving organizational productivity, and macro- level issues have a more comprehensive impact on the endowment institution, which includes two categories of "structural and executive problems” and "macro and extra-organizational view". In the quantitative phase, the ranking of the identified issues was done using the TOPSIS method and a sample of 75 deputies and managers of the organization at the staff and provincial levels. Five priority issues of the organization were identified as follows: Lack of the Endowment Organization role-playing in the country's macro policies, delay of an important part of the country's competition due to lacking in a model of endowment revival, lack of financial resources for investment, negative public mentality about the Endowment Organization and problems in the field of human resources.

It has been a long time since many experts of strategic management have found that about 50 to 90 percent of the formulated strategies are either not implemented at all, or their implementation have poor results. As a result, a wave of researches have examined the obstacles to strategy implementation. The present research aimed to use a metasynthesis of all researches done in Iran for recognizing the obstacles of the strategic implementation in Iranian government organizations. By referring to the most important databases in Iran, 40 articles were received and validated through CASP method. To analyze the data, inductive and deductive content analysis were conducted simultaneously. A total of 291 different obstacles were identified which were divided into 12 sub-obstacles, 4 main obstacles, and 2 themes. The results showed that although the obstacles were numerous and diverse but most of them were related to the implementation of strategies. In addition, over the years of the study and research on the strategic implementation obstacles, these have not diminished in terms of quantity and diversity. This phenomenon indicates that there hasn’t been long-term orientation to address and solve the obstacles. As a result, the theory of short-term society, which is used to describe Iranian society, represents the phenomenon.

Sustainable banking is the current and future model of the banking industry that integrates the environmental, social and governance factors for the sake of public interest. The present paper aims to provide a sustainable banking model based on a resistive economy. It is an exploratory research in terms of purpose using combined method based on deductive-inductive reasoning. The statistical population includes 11 theoretical experts (marketing professors) and experimental experts (banking industry managers). The sampling was done in a non-probabilistic and purposeful manner. Data collection tools were interviews and questionnaires. The content analysis method has been used to analyze specialized interviews and the identified indicators have been validated by fuzzy Delphi method. Finally, the research final model has been presented by a structural-interpretive method. The analysis of research data in the qualitative phase was performed with Maxqda software and in quantitative phase with Matlab software. The results show that managerial commitment transforms the structure of the banking system by influencing both risk and human resource management. In this way, the quality of services and banking performance has improved and lead to economic, social and environmental sustainability providing the achievement of resistive economy goals. The results also indicate the direct impact of the resistive economy on sustainable banking.