Authors

• Seyyed Ali Akbar Afjehi ¹
• Vajholah Ghorbani Zadeh ²
• Elham Heydari ³

¹ Professor of Business Management, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Allameh Tabataba’i University

² Associate professor of Public Management, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran

³ Phd Student of Business Management, Faculty of Management and Accounting, allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran

Abstract

The aim of present research is to explore the environmental factors that affect the Iran’s parliament members’ perceptions in legislation process. To conduct the study, grounded theory approach was used. Judgmental Sampling method was applied and continued until theoretical saturation was reached. We gathered data using semi-structural interviews with sixteen parliament members and collecting parliament related documents. 53 codes, 9 concepts and 3 categories were emerged during coding process. The relationship between categories was described through six propositions which were grouped in two main propositions. The results show that the environmental factors that affect parliament members’ perception consist of two categories of external and internal environmental factors. External environmental factors include political-legal pressures, economic pressures, social-cultural pressures and technological pressures. Internal environmental factors include organizational structure and procedures, and organizational culture. Perception was the core category of the research which consists of two sub-categories of direct and indirect cognition and three concepts of sense-making, sense-giving and sense-breaking

Keywords

• : perception
• External environmental factors
• Internal environmental factors
• Grounded Theory approach