Ma`rifat Eqtesadi

In recent years, with the increasing presence of Imam Hussein (pbuh) pilgrims from Iran in the Arbaeen event, public and private companies have also played a role in this great Shiite event. These companies have been effective in holding this event more magnificently by directly participating in the transportation routes through the provision of services and distribution of food, etc., or by allocating part of their social responsibility budget to the delegations and processions present on the route; of course, this presence has been accompanied by some issues and challenges that have brought criticism. The aim of this study is to investigate the role and position of companies in the Arbaeen event (both in the field of service provision and in the field of fund allocation). In this article, using the fuzzy Delphi method and through interviews with 13 experts in this field, the damages caused by the activities of companies in the Arbaeen event have been counted and ranked. The results indicate that among the damages, three damages are more important and influential: the absence of a coordinating factor between companies due to the lack of a superior document and institutional division of labor; the lack of definition of the mechanism for separating tasks between companies; and the ambiguity in the mechanism for allocating social responsibility budgets to committees, charitable institutions, and NGOs.