Designing A Sustainable Supply Chain Model for Project Companies: The Case of Pars Garma Industrial and Constructional Company

Subject Areas : Industrial Management Supply Chain Trend

Mahdi Vafaee ¹ , Mansoor Momeni ² , Ebrahim Teimouri ³ , Ahmad Jafarnejad ⁴

1 - PhD Candidate, Department of Industrial Management, Alborz Faculty, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
2 - Professor, Department of Industrial Management, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Industrial Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
4 - Professor, Department of Industrial Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2019-06-26 Accepted : 2019-12-23 Published : 2021-03-21

Keywords: Qualitative Research, Project Production, Factors Affecting Sustainable Supply Chain, Quantitative Method Sustainable Supply Chain,

Abstract :

Owing to the importance of sustainability in the supply chain of project-oriented companies, this study aimed to design a model for identification of factors that may influence supply chain sustainability in project production at Pars Garma Industrial and Constructional Company. To serve the purpose, the interpretive applied study commenced with extensive library research to scrutinize existing theories and findings from conceptual and applied research and identify enablers and key factors that may impact supply chain sustainability. An interview protocol and a questionnaire were further developed to collect the research data. These instruments were validated based on the views of 10 experts serving as managers and decision makers of Pars Garma Company who were selected using a judgment sampling procedure. The research population comprised 155 individuals out of whom a sample of 120 were selected according to the Cochran formula. Having collected and analyzed the data, the findings indicated 7 main dimensions of project characteristics, contractors’ characteristics, managers’ characteristics, communication features, characteristics of supervisory organizations, performance evaluation and characteristics of the society, each with constituent components. The implications of the findings will be discussed.

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