Globalization, increasing pollution and creating environmental concerns, in today's
knowledge-based, competitive, accountable and participatory environment, forced
university management to make changes in applying management models, accepting green
strategies and app
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Globalization, increasing pollution and creating environmental concerns, in today's
knowledge-based, competitive, accountable and participatory environment, forced
university management to make changes in applying management models, accepting green
strategies and applying green management as a new paradigm in all its organizational
activities. For this purpose, the present study was conducted to provide a university
management model based on green thinking. This research is "fundamental-applied" in
terms of purpose, as well as "qualitative" in terms of data type and in terms of
implementation is based on the data-driven theory ". The researcher conducts Semistructured interviews until reaching data saturation with 15 participants based on purposeful
and snowball samplings from the managers and experts of the Environmental Protection
Organization, the Renewable Energy Organization, Ministry of Oil, as well as managers of
the country's green universities. Analysis of obtained data was performed in three stages of
open, axial, and selective coding. The qualitative research model was designed base on this
analysis. The results of research extract 576 primary codes from interviews as well as 43
concepts and 16 categories which are conceptualized and categorized in the form of Strauss
and Corbin paradigm model including nuclear phenomenon, causal factors, contextual
conditions, interfering factors, strategies, and consequences
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