Visioning the Sustainable Development of the Iranian Gas Refining Industry Based on the GRI

Document Type : Original Research

Authors
Ardavan Jalali Doghozlo 1
mohammad mahdi zolfagharzadeh 2
Ali Asghar Pourezzat 3
Ghasem Bahrami Kia 4
1 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Public Administration, Kish International Campus, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
2 Assistant Prof., Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
3 Prof., Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
4 Industrial Consultant, in Charge of Research and Technology, Parsian Gas Refinery Co, Shiraz, Iran.
Abstract
The present study has done to formulate a desired long-term future vision for Iran's gas refining industry from the perspective of sustainable development. The research approach is mixed (qualitative-qua ntitative) and the research strategy is affective content analysis as a research method. The data gathered through a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews with 24 senior and middle managers of the gas refining industry and academic experts in the field of sustainable development who had selected by purposeful sampling. After identifying key aspects of the sustainable development of Iran's gas refining industry, the criteria derived from this process are used to formulate the vision and by analyzing the content of the data obtained from the interviews, the desired long-term future vision for Iran's gas refining industry has been formulated from the perspective of sustainable development for the 1430. In the desired long-term future vision, the Iranian gas refining industry, while focusing on gas production as a core business, with expanding downstream industries, extracting all derivatives from gas, countervailing and compensatory measures in the area of climate change, strengthening and partnership with the Local communities, by providing an appropriate framework for transparency and reporting the information to the community and taking appropriate measures to maintain environmental equilibrium, it works in a level beyond the production of gas by creating sustainable value for the community from the wealth of natural resources.
Keywords
Content Analysis
sustainable development
Vision
Gas Refining Industry
Global Reporting Initiative

Subjects

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Organizational Resources Management Researches
Volume 10, Issue 3
January 2021
Pages 67-86