نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
Abstract
The present study was conducted with the aim of identifying the components of environmental accounting with an emphasis on waste management. The qualitative research method is exploratory. The statistical sample was based on the purposeful or snowball method and consisted of 16 experts, accounting professors, managers and doctors of hospitals under the Ministry of Health through semi-structured interviews. In the first step of the research, the specialized research interviews were coded using qualitative thematic analysis and the fuzzy Delphi method for structural-interpretive analysis. Based on the results of the qualitative analysis, four categories of comprehensive categories were identified, including: causal factors of the environmental accounting model with an emphasis on waste management (strategic indicators, uncertainty indicators, commitment indicators of decision-makers and senior management), environmental accounting factors (social legitimacy, accounting information system, control and supervision), waste management factors (separation of waste at the source of production, collection of waste from different sectors, waste transportation, temporary storage of waste, waste disposal, human resource status), and environmental accounting consequences with an emphasis on waste management (improvement and optimization of environmental processes with an emphasis on waste management, cooperation with the HSE (Health, Safety and Environment) department, financial consequences). The results of the quantitative section, while confirming the research hypotheses, showed that the proposed model has appropriate validity