Information and Knowledge Economics
Ehsan Parvin; Mohsen Nazarzadeh Zare
Abstract
The present study aimed to identify the challenges of the purposefulness of academic research towards role-playing in solving the problems and issues in Iran. The researchers used a qualitative approach by content analysis to achieve this aim. The participants in the study included 16 connoisseurs from ...
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The present study aimed to identify the challenges of the purposefulness of academic research towards role-playing in solving the problems and issues in Iran. The researchers used a qualitative approach by content analysis to achieve this aim. The participants in the study included 16 connoisseurs from universities and research institutes who were selected based on the purposeful sampling method of the type of criterion. The tool for data collection was a semi-structured interview and the method of data analysis was an inductive content analysis. To check the credibility of the findings of the study, three methods; member check, triangulation, and peer check were used. The findings showed that the challenges of the purposefulness of academic research towards role-playing in solving the problems and issues in Iran can be divided into four main categories and eight sub-categories included; institutional challenges (the weakness of the promotion regulations of faculty members in not assigning special points to applied and problem-oriented research, the lack of a monitoring system and appropriate accreditation), organizational challenges (inappropriate distribution of the ratio of faculty members to students, lack of allocation of operational and problem-oriented budgets in universities, lack of attention to mission orientation in attracting faculty members and students), environmental challenges (incomplete cycle of science, technology, and innovation, low demand from institutions and organizations to conduct applied research) and individual challenges (inability and low willingness of faculty members to solve society's problems).
