Social Entrepreneurship Development Model in the Higher Education System

Subject Areas : Business Strategy

Fatemeh Mostafazadeh ¹ , Jalal Haghighat Monfared ²

1 - Department of Entrepreneurship Management, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Entrepreneurship Management, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2020-06-15 Accepted : 2021-02-13 Published : 2021-03-08

Keywords: National Higher Education, Consequences of Social Entrepreneurship Development, Social Entrepreneurship Development,

Abstract :

Purpose of this study is to provide a structured model for the development of social entrepreneurship in the higher education system of humanities post-graduate. According to the research purpose, theoretical framework was established with three main dimensions including needs and incentives, features and measures and the consequences of social entrepreneurship development. This model has been led to interview protocol. Then researcher done 10 interviews with experts by telephone, Skype and face-to-face methods. These interviews were then coding and recoding and the concepts and categories were extracted. Then, the relationships between the categories were adjusted based on the model derived from the literature. Then with using the confirmatory factor analysis and ISM and SEM techniques, the dimensions and components of the designed model were confirmed and structured.

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