عظیم اله زارعی

Charitable activities in different ways and based on different intentions have always been emphasized and paid attention to in heavenly religions and human civilizations with different intensity and weaknesses (Shivji, 2007: 62).
In the teachings of Islam, charitable activities such as waqf, endowment, benevolence, and charity are highly emphasized. One of the important cases in which voluntary activities could play a serious role as an auxiliary arm of governance was the Corona crisis (Kifle Mekonen & Adarkwah, 2022: 2). In general, the experiences gained from charitable activities during the Corona era played a significant role in managing the challenges and economic problems of that era, and by supporting medical and therapeutic measures, it also played a facilitating role in reducing the epidemic cycle. The continuation of difficult economic conditions and the creation of new crises in the country indicate the necessity of continuing and expanding charitable activities. Based on this, the current research intends to explain the future trend of these activities based on the experience and lessons learned from charitable activities during the Corona epidemic.

The upcoming research has an exploratory qualitative approach in terms of its nature and a developmental approach in terms of its goal. To investigate the experiences of donors during the Corona era and also predict the future trend of this range of charitable activities, a thematic analysis method was determined for this research. Also, the semi-structured interview tool was determined as the main strategy of data collection to achieve the goals of this research. The statistical population of the current research was formed by donors and experts of the Imam Khomeini (RA) Relief Committee across the country, and 31 people were selected from this population using the purposeful sampling method. After conducting the interviews, the data was coded with a line-by-line review approach and with the help of Maxqda.20 software. Also, the validity and reliability of this research was confirmed through Creswell (2000) guidelines (Creswell & Miller, 2000). The research method was forward-looking.

The present research was conducted to promote the charitable activities of the country by using the experiences during the Corona epidemic. In this regard, the opinions of 31 experts, managers, and activists in the field of charitable activities were analyzed through semi-structured interviews and using the thematic analysis method. Based on the data analysis, the two main networks of this research were obtained as follows:Fig 1. The main themes of the present research Based on the figure above, the lessons learned from Corona were identified in five axes: economic, health support, jihadi battle, spiritual support, and rule of law. Also, taking into account the social and economic problems of the country, the role of charitable activities in the future was identified in the five axes of strengthening the livelihood of the needy, educational jihad, improving the level of health, generating culture, and governance of artificial intelligence.

The experiences of charitable activities during the outbreak of Corona in the country showed that the capacities of this field can be used in other sensitive parts of the country in addition to health issues. The use of modern tools such as artificial intelligence to identify people in need and predict the future situation of this field as well as creating communication networks between benefactors to synergize the capacities of these people will be one of the most important features of such affairs. In the meantime, the innovative and new part that the specialists of this research mentioned was the use of new technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data analysis by donors. In the field of charitable activities, artificial intelligence has the potential to help improve the performance and effectiveness of these activities. One of the important advantages of artificial intelligence in the field of charitable activities mentioned in the research of researchers is the collection and analysis of data and the provision of intelligent solutions to identify the needs of people covered by the relief committee.

One of the Compiled strategic priorities in the lead documents of the Iran's health discipline is to be a pioneer in the production and export of vaccines and novel drugs. The purpose of this study is to describe images of the future of the export promotion of vaccines and novel drugs on the horizon of 2035.  This research is applied and method used in this study was a scenario-based planning. In this study, the method of data collection was qualitative by using interview, questionnaire and expert panel. MICMAC software and Scenario wizard software were used for data analysis. The findings of this study can be divided into two parts. The first of section included: identifying and classifying key factors, driving forces and related uncertainties. Seven driving forces including: “sanction”, “the trust and credibility of novel drugs industry”, “compilation of national documentary novel drugs”, improving the molecule purity”, international networking”, “type of export viewpoint” and diversification in export market” were identified and the influence/dependence relationships among the factors were analyzed. The second section identified and described possible and consistent scenarios based on the key drivers and uncertainties.Based on the research findings, four consistent scenarios including: (1) elixir (2) pain killer (3) panacea and (4) hemlock, were explained and compared. Familiarity with the narratives of each these scenarios and their comparison and desirability will be enable health policy makers to realize the process of creating future   and achieve the visual visions in the lead of health discipline.

Innovation can be used for differentiation as the first feature through which organizational performance can be enhanced if attractive. Although the innovation is regarded as the main value resource ,its negative impacts have been always neglected. In this study, we tried to explain the role of innovation in the sustainability based on environment, social and economic consideration. To design model and develop hypothesizes we used in library study and to assess the model and test the hypothesizes we utilized a quantitative approach of structural equation modelling with partial least squares using Smart PLS. Data was collected by means of a questionnaire. Industrial managers were targeted as the statistical population of the study. 267 people were sampled through a simple purposeful method. All hypothesizes confirmed. Results showed that innovation leads to the sustainable with an improvement in sustainability features (i.e. social, environmental and economic). Furthermore, the value caused by innovation triggers the actual innovation outcome. Additionally, the mediating role of ambidexterity was confirmed in the relation between innovation and sustainability as well as between innovation and actual outcome.

Alongside with industrialization of societies, supply chains increasingly and negatively affect the environment and social issues through wasteful consumption of natural resources and creating ecological pollution. This paper aimed at examining how sustainability and innovation can be discussed at the level of the supply chain. In doing so, a systematic literature review was carried out with a special focus on papers published by Scopus from 2015 up to 2018. This period of time was selected due to the prior research covering the time span of 1996 to 2014. The descriptive aspects of the published papers were first examined. Then, the contextual analysis was accomplished. The analysis showed an upward trend of literature in numerical terms and a wider spread of sustainability and innovations. Additionally, the study highlighted further areas of research that are deserving of attention. These areas include analysis of specific research activities in the less developed countries and more attention on the social and environmental dimension of sustainability. Finally, a framework is developed which could constitute the basis for further developments and research on this issue.