Designing an entrepreneurial model based on enablers for Iran
Subject Areas : Financial EconomicsDawod Mukhtarpour 1 , Fardin Shuraj 2
1 - Department of Strategic Management, Faculty of Strategic Management, National Defense University and Higher Research Institute, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Strategic Management, School of Strategic Management, National Defense University and Higher Research Institute, Tehran, Iran
Keywords: Creativity, Keywords: entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Empowerment, Innovation JEL Classification: J11 , G32, O31 , G1,
Abstract :
AbstractThe purpose of this study was to design an entrepreneurial empowerment model in Iran. In this study, a combined method (qualitative and quantitative) was used. The statistical sample of the study included 33 entrepreneurship experts, 110 micro and macro business managers and 163 entrepreneurship students. The tools of this research were Delphi questionnaires, interpretive structural modeling and entrepreneurial performance. Validation of questionnaires using expert opinion and validity using factor analysis. The reliability of the questionnaires was also confirmed by Cronbach's alpha method. Delphi method and interpretive structural modeling were used to identify entrepreneurial enablers and to examine the relationship between them, and structural equation modeling method was used to test research hypotheses. According to the results, a total of 9 empowerment (cultural factors, economic factors, information, political factors, contextual factors, structural factors, institutional factors, personality and individual characteristics, and the use of the global community) and 52 identifications. Were. The final results of ISM showed that the underlying factors and the benefit of globalization are at level 1 and the cultural factors are at level 6. Also, the results of sub-hypotheses showed that all entrepreneurial enablers affect entrepreneurial performance.
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