PetroSahand International Group: the dilemma of outsourcing for EPC activities Available to Purchase

Soroush Dehghan Salmasi is based at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. He is a master student of Business Informatics programme in School of Economics and Business at University of Ljubljana. His current research interests concentrate on project-based companies, strategic decision-making, outsourcing dilemma and organizational transformation. He has published papers in highly ranked regional and international conferences. He completed his MBA at the Sharif University of Technology, Iran’s most prestigious university, and achieved to be a top-ranked student in the 2016 cohort. During his master’s and after his graduation, he served as a chief TA for more than 50 courses such as strategic planning, strategic management, strategy implementation, organizational behaviour, human resource management and research method among others as a volunteer at the Sharif Business School. In addition, during his graduate studies, he was a chief consultant for the CEO of Sam Electronics (the main and only Iranian branch of Samsung). He was the first author of “PetroSahand International Group: investigating the reasons for strategy implementation failure – focusing on organization capitals such as alignment, leadership, and organizational culture” case study, which was the first runner-up in the 2022 Emerald/CEEMAN case writing competition.

Mehran Sepehri is based at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. He is an Associate Professor at Graduate School of Management and Economics at Sharif University of Technology for the past 20 years. His specialty is project and portfolio management. He earned a PhD in engineering from Stanford University and an MSc in operations research from MIT. He was a visiting professor at ETH in Switzerland and on sabbatical at the University of Portsmouth in the UK. Sepehri is a Certified Project Manager and a Fellow of Higher Education Association.

Yashar Dadashzadeh is based at the Faculty of Arts, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He is an undergraduate student at the Faculty of Arts, University of British Columbia. His current research interests focus on strategic planning, strategy execution, organizational behaviour and leadership. He had previously worked on the “PetroSahand International Group: investigating the reasons for strategy implementation failure – focusing on organization capitals such as alignment, leadership, and organizational culture” case study as a co-author, which was the first runner-up in the 2022 Emerald/CEEMAN case writing competition and had since been published by Emerald.