مریم زمانی سامانی

In recent decades the business environment has been one of the keywords in business, commerce, and economics. Efforts to enhance the indicators of business environment improvement have a significant role in the growth and development of employment, especially in the private sector. The diagnosis of the variables involved in this field can be effective in creating a suitable environment for businesses. Among the important variables in this field are informal employment and its important consequences for the business environment. If the barriers to production are to be removed, it is first necessary to identify the drivers and barriers, so that positive steps can be taken to remove the barriers and strengthen the drivers. Therefore, the focus of this study is to identify the causes of informal employment in Iran. This research has been done with the qualitative method. Data were collected through interviews with experts. The data were then analyzed by various methods including thematic analysis and Delphi. During three Delphi rounds, the data were validated and the final research framework was developed as a themes network. Based on the research findings, more than eighty factors were identified in the formation of informal employment and then classified into macro, legal, and individual factors.

Informal employment emerges and intensifies as industrialization and urbanization increased, leading to a lack of labor support. Starting with the expansion of urbanization and the creation of the informal economy, it is already remarkable to examine this issue from an economic point of view. Informality is one of the most important problems in the country's economy. This issue, in addition to affecting the personal life of the worker, including various aspects such as mentality and family, has important managerial/organizational, economic and social messages, so that it might be necessary to further define this field. This research has been done in identifying unofficial negative consequences and its method is descriptive-survey. The statistical sample of the research includes experts in related fields. Theme and Delphi analysis methods were used to analyze the data. The general results of the research indicate that its messages are identified at different levels of economic, managerial, social and psychological. To better understand the results of the research, the identified messages in the network of topics are also provided.