Abdolhamid Sharafi - Ph.D. Student, Public Administration Department, Rafsanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rafsanjan, Iran.
Malike Beheshtifar - Associate Professor, Public Administration Department, Rafsanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rafsanjan, Iran.
Mohamad Ziaaddini - Assistant Professor, Public Administration Department, Rafsanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rafsanjan, Iran.

The main purpose of this study is to develop a model of strategic unlearning of sharing knowledge in Iranian state-owned banks. This qualitative study is developmental in terms of purpose. In the first part of this research, the content related to the concepts of unlearning and strategy were extracted from library sources. The second part refers to the interview process with ۲۱ managers, executives, and experts conducted in the winter of ۲۰۲۱. The statistical population of the research includes experts from the university department who have published at least two articles in the field of unlearning and related research plans. Furthermore, the executive team comprises individuals with a university degree and a minimum of ۴ years of work experience in the field of banking education. Judgmental sampling was implemented based on the opinions of professors and experts in this field and continued until theoretical saturation was achieved. The interviews were then analyzed using Atlas.ti ۸ software. Findings identified ۱۱ components, ۱۸ indicators, and ۷۶ selected codes. The results also indicated that some components, such as employee development, management, economics, knowledge management, education, organizational structure, legal aspects, marketing strategies, cultural factors, consolidation, rigidity, and unlearning, are essential in the strategic unlearning process of Iranian state-owned banks.

Unlearning, strategy, Strategic Unlearning, Sharing Knowledge, Iranian State-Owned Banks