چشم‌انداز مدیریت صنعتی

چشم‌انداز مدیریت صنعتی

شناسایی و طراحی مدل ساختاری نوتروسوفیکِ چالش‌های سیستم تولید پایدار در صنعت پتروشیمی ایران

نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی

نویسندگان
1 دانشجوی دکتری، گروه مدیریت صنعتی، واحد علوم و تحقیقات، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، تهران، ایران.
2 استادیار، گروه مدیریت صنعتی، واحد طبس، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، طبس، ایران.
3 استادیار، گروه مدیریت و اقتصاد، واحد علوم و تحقیقات، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، تهران، ایران.
4 استادیار، گروه مدیریت تکنولوژی، واحد قم، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، قم، ایران.
چکیده
مقدمه و اهداف: تشدید فشارهای زیست​محیطی، الزامات نهادی و رقابت‌پذیری جهانی، صنایع انرژی‌بر را ناگزیر از گذار به سیستم‌های تولید پایدار کرده است. صنعت پتروشیمی ایران به‌عنوان یکی از ارکان اصلی اقتصاد ملی و در عین حال از کانون‌های مصرف منابع و تولید آلاینده‌ها، با چالش‌های چندوجهی در پذیرش و استقرار این سیستم‌ها مواجه است. با وجود گستره ادبیات در حوزه تولید پایدار، در بافت صنعت پتروشیمی ایران هنوز چارچوبی بومی و ساختارمند که بتواند چالش‌های این حوزه را به‌صورت نظام‌مند و با تبیین روابط علّی و سلسله‌مراتبی میان آن‌ها تحلیل کند، به‌طور کافی توسعه نیافته است. ازاین‌رو، هدف پژوهش حاضر شناسایی، غربال‌سازی و طراحی مدل ساختاری نوتروسوفیک چالش‌های سیستم تولید پایدار در صنعت پتروشیمی ایران و تبیین روابط اثرگذاری و اثرپذیری میان وجوه آن‌ها در شرایط عدم‌قطعیت است.
روش‌ها: پژوهش حاضر از نظر هدف کاربردی-توسعه‌ای و از حیث ماهیت تحلیلی است و با رویکردی دو مرحله‌ای انجام شده است. در مرحله نخست، با انجام مطالعات عمیق کتابخانه‌ای و شناسایی ۴۵ چالش در ۱۲ وجه، این چالش​ها با بهره‌گیری از رویکرد تحلیل عاملی تأییدی مرتبه دوم در قالب مدل شکل​گیرنده-انعکاسی در نمونه‌ای ۲۲۵ نفری از خبرگان صنعت و دانشگاه اعتبارسنجی و غربال شدند. در این راستا، روایی همگرا و واگرا، پایایی ترکیبی و آزمون هم‌خطی برای سازه‌های شکل‌گیرنده مورد بررسی قرار گرفتند. در مرحله دوم، روابط علّی و سطح‌بندی وجوهِ چالش​ها با استفاده از رویکرد مدل‌سازی ساختاری تفسیری نوتروسوفیک (N-ISM) و بر مبنای قضاوت ۱۹ صاحب​نظر صنعت پتروشیمی، در قالب ماتریس‌های ارتباطات مستقیم و اعمال روابط تعدی تحلیل گردید تا ساختار سلسله‌مراتبی وجوهِ چالش‌ها در شرایط ابهام تبیین شود.
یافته‌ها: نتایج تحلیل عاملی نشان داد از میان ۴۵ چالش اولیه، ۴۱ چالش در صنعت پتروشیمی ایران معنادار بوده و در شکل‌گیری سازه کلان «چالش‌های سیستم تولید پایدار» نقش دارند. شاخص‌های پایایی و روایی، کفایت مدل اندازه‌گیری را تأیید کرده و ضرایب مسیر بیانگر آن بود که وجوه منابع انسانی (33/0=β)، اقتصادی-مالی (316/0=β) و سازمانی (247/0=β) کانون‌های حساس گذار به سیستم​ تولید پایدار در این صنعت محسوب می​شوند. در ادامه، مدل‌سازی ساختاری نوتروسوفیک، ساختار وجوهِ چالش‌ها را در سه سطح سلسله‌مراتبی آشکار ساخت. در این رویکرد، کاربرد منطق نوتروسوفیک با کمی‌سازی درجات تأیید، رد و بی‌اطلاعی، امکان تحلیل روابط علّی در شرایط قضاوتی مبهم را فراهم ساخته و دقت مدل‌سازی را تقویت کرد. یافته​های این بخش حاکی از آن بود که در سطح سوم (محرک‌های ریشه‌ای)، وجوه چالش​های سازمانی، منابع انسانی، اجتماعی، اقتصادی/مالی و فناوری قرار گرفتند که زیربنای سایر چالش‌ها را شکل می‌دادند و نقش گلوگاهی داشتند. در سطح دوم (وجوه واسطه‌ای)، وجوهِ چالش​های دولتی و مدیریتی به‌عنوان حلقه اتصال میان زیرساخت‌های ریشه‌ای و پیامدهای عملیاتی شناسایی شدند. در سطح اول (وجوه پیامدی)، چالش‌های اطلاعاتی، بازار، پیچیدگی، خارجی و زیست‌محیطی قرار گرفتند که عمدتاً بازتابی از وضعیت سطوح زیرین‌ بودند. این سطح‌بندی نشان داد که تمرکز بر اقدامات سطحی نظیر اصلاحات بازاری یا پروژه‌های مقطعی زیست‌محیطی، بدون اصلاح بنیان‌های انسانی، اقتصادی و فناورانه، به کاربست اثربخش سیستم تولید پایدار در صنعت پتروشیمی منجر نخواهد شد.
نتیجه‌گیری: یافته‌ها بیانگر آن بود که گذار به تولید پایدار در صنعت پتروشیمی ایران مستلزم اصلاحات ساختاری در سطوح ریشه‌ای، به‌ویژه در حوزه سرمایه انسانی، تأمین مالی و بلوغ سازمانی و فناورانه است و سیاست‌ها و اقدامات مدیریتی باید بر این گلوگاه‌ها متمرکز شوند. مدل ارائه‌شده با تبیین روابط علّی و سلسله‌مراتبی وجوهِ چالش‌ها، چارچوبی بومی و قابل اتکا برای اولویت‌بندی مداخلات و طراحی نقشه راه گذار به تولید پایدار فراهم نموده و می‌تواند مبنای مطالعات توسعه‌ای و تطبیقی در سایر صنایع فرایندی قرار گیرد.
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عنوان مقاله English

Identification and Neutrosophic Structural Modeling of Sustainable Production System Challenges in Iran’s Petrochemical Industry

نویسندگان English

Amin Askari 1
Mohsen Jalali Majidi 2
Arnoosh Shakeri 3
Hossein Shirazi 4
1 Ph.D. Student, Department of Industrial Management, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Management, Tabas Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabas, Iran.
3 Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Economics, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
4 Assistant Professor, Department of Technology Management, Qom Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qom, Iran.
چکیده English

Introduction: Increasing environmental pressures, institutional requirements, and global competitiveness have compelled energy‑intensive industries to move toward sustainable production systems. The Iranian petrochemical industry, as a key pillar of the national economy and a major resource consumer and polluter, faces multifaceted challenges in adopting such systems. Despite extensive literature on sustainable production, a localized and structured framework for systematically analyzing these challenges and clarifying their causal and hierarchical relationships in Iran’s petrochemical industry remains underdeveloped. Therefore, this study aims to identify, screen, and design a neutrosophic structural model of the challenges of sustainable production systems in this industry and to explain the influence–dependence relationships among their dimensions under uncertainty.
Methods: This research is applied–developmental in purpose and analytical in nature and was conducted through a two‑stage approach. In the first stage, 45 challenges categorized into 12 dimensions were identified through literature review and validated using second‑order confirmatory factor analysis within a formative–reflective measurement model based on data from 225 industry and academic experts. Convergent and discriminant validity, composite reliability, and collinearity diagnostics for formative constructs were assessed to ensure the adequacy of the measurement model. In the second stage, causal relationships and hierarchical structuring of the challenge dimensions were analyzed using the Neutrosophic Interpretive Structural Modeling (N‑ISM) approach. Based on the judgments of 19 petrochemical experts, direct‑relationship matrices were developed and transitivity relationships were applied to determine the hierarchical structure of the challenge dimensions under ambiguity and uncertainty.
Results and discussion: The results of the factor analysis showed that among the 45 initially identified challenges, 41 were statistically significant in the context of Iran’s petrochemical industry and contributed to the construct of “challenges of sustainable production systems.” Reliability and validity indices confirmed the adequacy of the measurement model, and the path coefficients indicated that the human resources (β = 0/33), economic–financial (β = 0/316), and organizational (β = 0/247) dimensions are the most critical focal points for the transition toward sustainable production systems in this industry. Subsequently, neutrosophic structural modeling revealed the hierarchical structure of the challenge dimensions across three levels. In this approach, the use of neutrosophic logic, through the quantification of degrees of truth, falsity, and indeterminacy, enabled the analysis of causal relationships under ambiguous expert judgments and strengthened the robustness of the modeling process. The findings showed that at the third level (root driving factors), the dimensions of organizational, human resource, social, economic/financial, and technological challenges were positioned, forming the fundamental drivers underlying other challenges and functioning as critical bottlenecks. At the second level (intermediate dimensions), governmental and managerial challenges were identified as linking mechanisms between underlying infrastructures and operational outcomes. At the first level (outcome dimensions), informational, market, complexity, external, and environmental challenges were positioned, largely reflecting the conditions of the underlying levels. This hierarchical structure suggests that focusing only on superficial actions, such as market adjustments or temporary environmental projects, without addressing the underlying human, economic, and technological foundations will not lead to the effective implementation of sustainable production systems in the petrochemical industry.
Conclusions: The findings indicated that the transition toward sustainable production in Iran’s petrochemical industry requires structural reforms at foundational levels, particularly in human capital, financial capacity, and organizational and technological maturity. Accordingly, policy and managerial interventions should focus on these key leverage points. By clarifying the causal and hierarchical relationships among the challenge dimensions, the proposed model offers a localized and reliable framework for prioritizing interventions and designing a strategic roadmap for sustainable production, and can serve as a basis for future developmental and comparative studies in other process‑based industries.

کلیدواژه‌ها English

Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Neutrosophic Interpretive Structural Modeling
Neutrosophic Set Theory
Petrochemical Industry
Sustainable Production Systems
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