Designing Employee Empowerment Model for Imam Khomeini Relief Committee Based on Social Entrepreneurship Approach: A mixed study

Subject Areas : Entrepreneurship

mansour izadi ¹ , mansoureh aligholi ² , gholamhossein hosseininia ³

1 - Department of Entrepreneurship Management, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran.
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Business Management, Central Tehran Branch , Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Entrepreneurship Management, Faculty of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran

Received: 2022-12-26 Accepted : 2023-02-19 Published : 2023-08-23

Keywords: Grounded Theory, Empowerment, Social entrepreneurship,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study is to design the empowerment model for Imam Khomeini Relief Committee Based on Social Entrepreneurship Approach. To achieve this goal, relying on the grounded theory approach, to collect qualitative data through semi-structured interviews with 10 experts, university professors, entrepreneurs and related officials based on the sample method targeted sampling was done until theoretical saturation was reached and then the model of empowering the patients of Imam Khomeini Relief Committee (RA) based on the social entrepreneurship approach was presented after going through the stages of open, central and selective coding. Next, in the quantitative section, a questionnaire was designed and completed by 361 people of the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee (RA) throughout the country. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to analyze the data. The research results show that all six hypotheses were confirmed; In other words, conditions have a positive effect on action/interaction, consequences and success. Also, the effect of action/interaction on outcome and success and the effect of outcome on success were confirmed.