The spring 2023 edition of the quarterly contains the followings papers:

• “A fuzzy multiple criteria decision-making approach for green marketing audit in insurance industry” by Amaneh Khadivar, Aign Ghorbani, and Leili Niakan
•  “Designing the competences model of marketing specialists in the insurance industry using grounded theory” by Maryam Rabiei, Kambiz Shahroodi, Ebrahim Chirani, and Mahmood Shabgoo Monsef
• “The antecedents and consequences of value creation in the insurance service industry with a focus on blockchain technology: A hybrid research approach” by Akbar Hoshyar, Alireza Rousta, Farzad Asayesh, and Mahmoud Gholami
• “Contemplation on the need to link civil and criminal lawsuits in the insurance system” by Hamid Afkar and Abdollah Khodabakhshi
• “Introducing enhanced annuity product and calculating its payouts for the insureds with different cancers using adjustment approaches of possible mortality” by Mahboubeh Aalaei
• “Designing a strategic model for insurance companies intelligence” by Amin Kohyari Haghighat and Seyed Ahmad Mohammadi Hoseini

Those interested to access and read the English abstract of the Spring Edition of IJIR, can click on the following link https://ijir.irc.ac.ir/issue_21968_21971.html?lang=en.

It must be noted that IJIR is an open access quarterly and free-of-charge paper directed and published by the Insurance Research Center (IRC). Supported by the Iranian Association of Islamic Finance (IAIF), IJIR releases original research papers, reviews, case studies and short communication covering all the aspects of insurance, risk and related subjects. The quarterly is committed to follow the Ethics in Publishing Committee (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with the ethical regulations. All the submitted manuscripts are checked for similarity through trustworthy software named iThenticate to make sure of the originality of the papers rigorously peer-reviewed by a team of international reviewers. IJIR has been indexed in some well-known world databases including Directory of Open Access Journals   (DOAJ), Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) and Google Scholar. IJIR has also gained a Scientific rank "A" from the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (MSRT).