Explaining the impact of social capital dimensions on organizational entrepreneurship in Khuzestan province's Organization of Agricultural Jahad

Subject Areas : Agricultural Extension and Education Research

bahman khosravipour ¹ , masoud baradaran ² , Ameneh SavariMombeni ³ , Ali Zalaki nejad ⁴

1 - Professor, Department of Agriculture Extension and Education, University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Khuzestan, Ahvaz, Iran
2 - Khuzestan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
3 - PhD Graduate, Agricultural Extension and Education and Rural development, University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Khuzestan, Ahvaz, Iran
4 - Khuzestan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources

Received: 2023-10-23 Accepted : 2024-05-26 Published : 2024-06-18

Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Organizational Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Organization of Agricultural Jahad,

Abstract :

The main goal of the current research was to explain the impact of social capital dimensions on organizational entrepreneurship in Khuzestan Province Organization of Agricultural Jahad. The survey research method and data collection tool a researcher-made questionnaire, whose face and content validity confirmed by a group of experts, and the reliability estimate of the questionnaire was also provided by calculating ordinal alpha (α = 0.93). The statistical population of this research was all the experts working in the Agricultural Jahad Organization of Khuzestan province (N=293), of which 165 people were selected by simple random method. Data processing was done using SPSS25 software. According to the findings, the state of social capital in 3 communication, cognitive and structural dimensions (mean = 2.79 out of 5 and standard deviation = 0.86) and organizational entrepreneurship in 4 dimensions of modernization, innovation, risk-taking and pioneering (mean = 2.49 out of 5 and standard deviation = 1.02) in Khuzestan Province's Organization of Agricultural Jahad has been evaluated as less than average. The results of ordinal regression in order to determine the impact of social capital on organizational entrepreneurship in the organization of agricultural jihad in Khuzestan province also showed that based on the Nagel Karak coefficient, independent communication, cognitive and structural variables as the 3 dimensions of social capital have been able to 59% of the probability It has explained the variance of the dependent variable of organizational entrepreneurship in the Organization of Agricultural Jahad Khuzestan province.