Identifying and prioritization of problems and executive barriers of gas supply to industries in Yazd province with Pairwise Comparison Matrix Method

The aim of this study is to identify and prioritize the problems and barriers in the full implementation of article "k" concerning gas supply to industrial and production units consuming liquid fuel. In terms of methodology, the present study is an applied-survey type. The research strategy is of the exploratory Synthesis type. In the first stage, the qualitative method has been used with the content analysis technique and in the second stage, the quantitative method and the pairwise comparison matrix technique have been used. The participants were 12 experts of Yazd Province Gas Company and industry owners of Yazd Province. The participants were selected by purposive judgmental and snowball method. The instruments used for collection of data were interviews and questionnaires in the first and second stages of the research, respectively. The results showed that the main problems and executive barriers can be categorized in order of priority in five categories, respectively: liquidity, supply of goods, lack of applicants’ acceptance, selection of contractor and engineering, design and implementation. In addition, sub-factors were also identified in each category.