فصلنامه مدیریت اسلامی
سال بیست و ششم شماره 2 (تابستان 1397)

This research is intended to identify and assess the factors affecting Islamic brandy in Iranian industries in order to present a conceptual framework for attending the global markets. The research follows an exploratory combined method, conducted directly in two qualitative and quantitative phases. Interviewing 14 experts by profound semi-structured, academics scholars and professors of marketing, branding and Islamic branding fields through a combination of purposeful judgment and snowball sampling method, the researchers identified and categorized components of the Islamic branding and factors influencing it for achieving the research objectives. Then, in the quantitative phase, a descriptive survey method was employed and a researcher-made questionnaire was developed. The views and ideas of 328 marketing managers and experts were collected from 60 Islamic companies. The data was then analyzed by confirmatory factor analysis and LISREL software. The results of the research from interviewing the experts led to the identification of three main components including approaches, opportunities and challenges of the Islamic branding and the factors that affected it.

The main human requirements regards his need for respect and dignity. Furthermore, the origins of psychological and moral problems in organizations, as well as reduction of employees’ motivation, satisfaction and commitment include issues such as lack of respect in the relationship between managers and subordinates, lack of self-esteem in comparison with others, which result in the reduction of dignity and social positions of the employees. Using qualitative thematic analysis, the researchers reviewed and codified the speeches of the Supreme Leader between 1979 and 2018. Then open codes related to the concept of employees’ dignity were identified and classified. Afterwards, the dimensions of dignity, the base of its promotion, and, finally, the direct outcomes of the promotion of dignity were categorized in the form of six comprehensive themes, twenty six organizing themes, and 117 basic themes. They were then structured as networks relating to the concept of the dignity of the employees from the viewpoint of the Supreme Leader. The findings of this research can be applied to the improvement of the status of employees and to the achievement of their self-esteem.

Citizen participation is the outcome of democracy in the new era. It is the recognition of the dominating right of every human being in shaping their political, economic and cultural destiny. Meanwhile, according to Islamic teachings, people’s participation is a fundamental doctrine and principle of the Islamic state. Therefore, the Islamic state is supposed to design a mechanism for realizing the upmost participation of the people. The research question involves factors contributing reinforcement or weakening of people's participation in different sections of the government. To identify these factors, the researchers selected Nahjulbalaghah, one of the most important sources of religious knowledge. Data analysis was conducted through the Maxqda strategy for thematic analysis. The results indicated that preventive and driving factors affecting citizenship participation are divided into two categories, each of which can have a public and governmental origin. In other words, both governments and citizens affect participation. The interactional power of preventive and driving forces create the level of balance of citizenship participation.

Researcher of innovation studies believe that it no longer contains only economic structure or technical process; rather, it can be considered as a social phenomenon. Jihad-e-Sazandegui is a novel emerging institution of the Islamic Revolution that has been able to present social services progressively meeting some of the needs of society during its lifetime in an innovative way, compared to existing mechanisms, by the help of people and organizing them. In this regard, Jihad-e-Sazandegui can be considered as an innovative social institution. Hence, the researchers are aimed at conducting a thematic analysis strategy through the analysis of more than 30 purposive interviews and related documents as well as the researchers conducted with regard to this institution, to identify the model of the formation of social innovation in Jihad-e-Sazandegui. Due to the impossibility of interviewing all the managers and related specialists in Jihad, this study was conducted using a non-probabilistic and snowball sampling method. According to the results, this model contains a process which began with "creating stimulus of urgency" and continued with the "initial formation based on the Jihad intentions and the new Islamic education" based on "Jihad-e-Sazandegui", and developed and consolidated in an environment and culture of "Jihadi performance", and ultimately led to "public mobilization” and restoration of help culture" by the people to meet the needs of the community.

Manpower is today the most important organizational capital. Managers are more important than other human capital because of their organizational status, their power and the essential roles they play in the success or failure of the organization. Training and upgrading of employees are strategic measures leading to the dignity of the individuals at the individual level, improving organizations at the organizational level, and resulting in an increased productivity and subsequent results at the national and even transnational level. Therefore, an infrastructural measure in effective organizations seems to be creating or acquiring continuous development of human capital through education and improvement. The fulfillment of the educational mission, as well as improvement of the organization and its effectiveness require the selection of an appropriate policy and strategy, in accordance with the requirements of the organization. Aiming at investigating and identifying the components of the Islamic education model, the researchers referred to institutional managers (commanders of the Revolutionary Guards Corps, Sepah) and conducted in-depth interviews with experts in the areas of education, management and armed forces. The necessary data was collected and analyzed by the thematic analysis method. In conclusion, 12 basic components along with their characteristics were classified in three dimensions: hardware, software and manpower. Also, three components including teacher, instructor and content were considered as the main axis in the Islamic education model.

Regarding the importance and recurrence of the issue of intention in the field of Islamic management, especially in modifying the concept of performance from Islamic viewpoint, this research is intended to study the feedback of this issue in the traditions of the Infallibles in order to determine the precise scope of this Islamic concept. This research follows library method data collection and the thematic analysis for analyzing the data. Due to the fact that a narrative study has been carried out in this research, the researchers tried to use an appropriate method fitting the subject in the collection phase, which is the method of perceiving Hadiths. Eventually, the research findings identified the role of intention in two dimensions of importance, (such as the conditionality of acceptance of action, being parallel or even more important than action), and the roots (including wilayah, heart, sincerity, knowledge, and power of religious induction), and their application in three types (including honesty, goodness, and the necessity of adjustment to the performance, etc.), genetic effects (such as the strength of the body, the effect on nutrition, etc.) and performance evaluation (including two areas of evaluation of the other people, such as the effectiveness and of practice and lack of influence on economic topics, and the evaluation subject to Allah such as Divine reward and punishment.

This study is aimed at investigating factors affecting social accountability from Islamic perspective using FANP method. The company's social accountability from the Islamic perspective refers to the importance of Islamic considerations of their social accountability. Regarding this, the research variables were first identified using the Diblah and AlFiumi Model (2016) and its alignment with the Iranian environment. Then, the opinions of 17 experts from Islamic accounting fields were received through Delphi technique, and the responses were collected and tested through Fuzzy network analysis process. The findings indicated that from four criteria noted above, the Islamic ethical system was the most important one. The Islamic trade occupied the second position, and the system of profit and loss came afterwards. Finally, the rules of Islamic accounting and auditing was the fourth important item. As a result, it seems necessary to pay attention to the importance of these items and to pay enough attention to them for increasing social accountability from an Islamic point of view.

Religious tourism is a form of tourism receiving more attention nowadays, whose development is on the agenda. This research is conducted with the aim of designing a theoretical model of the development of religious tourism in Iran, through a qualitative grounded theory. To collect data, profound and unstructured interviews were conducted with 18 experts familiar with the subject. These interviews were analyzed through open, pivotal and selective coding. Some components were extracted from these basic concepts. These components were then classified under the heading of causal factors, pivotal phenomena, grounding conditions, interventional factors, strategies and outcomes of religious tourism development. The causative factors affecting the development of the country's religious tourism were identified in the form of "management of attractions and events", "management of advertisement" and "development of the infrastructure and services fulfilling the needs of religious tourists", and interventional factors including "rules and regulations" and "planning of Religious tourism grand policies" were identified. Grounding conditions included indicators of "cultural conditions" and "economic conditions", and strategies include "marketing", "improving the environmental conditions, "human resource and training", " public-private interaction for the development of religious tourism", "systemic outlook ", and" attraction of investors". The identified consequences included "increasing the remaining of religious tourists", "reinforcing the basic motivations of religious tourists", "increasing the number of religious tourists," and "increasing the revenue from religious tourist’s visit of the country."