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Department of Management, Institiute for Humanities & Social Stdies, ACECR
10.22059/jomc.2025.384769.1008736
Abstract
Despite the governance system’s efforts to prevent corruption and promote transparency in the country’s administrative system, these efforts have yielded limited success in practice, and transparency indicators continue to decline. The purpose of this study is to identify and extract the barriers to transparency in the governance order based on research conducted over the past decade using the meta-synthesis method. A total of 200 articles were initially reviewed, which were narrowed down to 30 articles after summarization. To ensure reliability, agreement among three coders was used, and interpretive and theoretical validity were employed to ensure the study’s validity. Following the identification and aggregation of transparency barriers, expert consultations were conducted to rank the importance of each barrier. According to the findings, transparency barriers were classified into five categories: environmental and external barriers, organizational and institutional barriers, legal barriers, executive and supervisory barriers, and conceptual ambiguity and theoretical confusion. The ranking of transparency barriers showed that the most critical obstacles to enhancing organizational transparency include the prevalence of administrative corruption, political and partisan interference, conflicts of interest, the confidentiality of organizational information, dependence on natural resources like oil and gas, nepotism in the management system, lack of media freedom, weak spirituality and absence of ethical leadership, inefficiency in whistleblower protection mechanisms, and weaknesses in the legal system’s judicial responses. The results indicate that these five categories of barriers collectively contribute to the erosion of social capital, public trust, and satisfaction, and perpetuate a cycle of non-transparency.
Heidari, H. , Mennati, H. and Shahbazi, Z. (2025). Identifying Organizational Transparency Barriers and the Cycle of Reproducing Non-Transparency: A Meta-Synthesis Approach. Organizational Culture Management, (), -. doi: 10.22059/jomc.2025.384769.1008736
MLA
Heidari, H. , , Mennati, H. , and Shahbazi, Z. . "Identifying Organizational Transparency Barriers and the Cycle of Reproducing Non-Transparency: A Meta-Synthesis Approach", Organizational Culture Management, , , 2025, -. doi: 10.22059/jomc.2025.384769.1008736
HARVARD
Heidari, H., Mennati, H., Shahbazi, Z. (2025). 'Identifying Organizational Transparency Barriers and the Cycle of Reproducing Non-Transparency: A Meta-Synthesis Approach', Organizational Culture Management, (), pp. -. doi: 10.22059/jomc.2025.384769.1008736
CHICAGO
H. Heidari , H. Mennati and Z. Shahbazi, "Identifying Organizational Transparency Barriers and the Cycle of Reproducing Non-Transparency: A Meta-Synthesis Approach," Organizational Culture Management, (2025): -, doi: 10.22059/jomc.2025.384769.1008736
VANCOUVER
Heidari, H., Mennati, H., Shahbazi, Z. Identifying Organizational Transparency Barriers and the Cycle of Reproducing Non-Transparency: A Meta-Synthesis Approach. Organizational Culture Management, 2025; (): -. doi: 10.22059/jomc.2025.384769.1008736
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