Modeling the factors influencing the management of fear of entrepreneurial failure in Iranian start-up businesses

Subject Areas : Water Resource Management

ALiAsqar Karami ¹ , Javad Mehrabi ² , Parviz Saketi ³

1 - PhD student, Department of Management, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor , Department of Management and Educatinal Planing,University of Shiraz, Shiraz, Iran

Received: 2023-01-18 Accepted : 2023-04-10 Published : 2023-11-22

Keywords: fear of failure, Startup Businesses, Fear of failure in entrepreneurship,

Abstract :

Regarding the role of entrepreneurship in the economic and social growth of developed countries, analyzing the entrepreneurial process and the factors affecting the management of the fear of failure in entrepreneurship would contribute to the successful advancement of entrepreneurship, creating new job opportunities and exiting the single-product economic situation. The main goal of this research is to modelling the factors influencing the management of the fear of entrepreneurial failure in Iranian start-up businesses, by determining their effectiveness. Based on this, the research method of this research is applied in terms of purpose and mixed-exploratory in terms of information gathering. This research has two qualitative parts to identify the factors affecting the management of the fear of entrepreneurial failure and a quantitative part to determine the effectiveness of the factors. Sampling method in both quantitative and qualitative sections done purposefully and using snowball method. In the qualitative part, first, a semi-structured interview with 10 experts used to identify the factors influencing the management of the fear of failure in entrepreneurship in the quantitative analysis part of the DEMATEL method. For this purpose, DEMATEL questionnaire given to 12 experts and using DEMATEL modeling, the effect of factors was calculated. The research results show 7 important and effective factors in managing the fear of entrepreneurial failure of Iranian start-up businesses. Among these factors, legal factors were the most influential variables and personal and personality factors were the most influential variables.