Keywords = Entrepreneurship

Navigating the Future: Understanding Key Success Factors and Challenges in Web 3 Entrepreneurship

Volume 28, Issue 1, April 2024, Pages 76-98

Amirali Moezzi; Ehsan Chitsaz; Majid Ahmadi

Abstract The emergence of Web 3, characterized by the integration of digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, and blockchain, has the potential to revolutionize traditional business practices. This transformative phase, referred to as Web 3 entrepreneurship, is disrupting established industries and creating new markets, thereby driving economic growth and generating employment opportunities. However, the rapid pace of technological advancement presents complex challenges that necessitate exceptional adaptability and continuous learning within the evolving entrepreneurial landscape. This study aims to identify the critical factors for growth and success, as well as to explore the implications of this modern form of entrepreneurship. To achieve this, a Delphi study was conducted involving 30 industry experts, leading to the identification of four categories of key success factors: technological, individual, environmental, and organizational. The findings of this research revealed that while there are potential adverse environmental, social, and economic consequences, such as the risk of creating a digital divide and increased energy consumption, there are also opportunities inherent in this technology. These opportunities include the potential to mitigate these consequences by fostering greater transparency and trust in transactions, creating new decentralized ecosystem-based opportunities, and developing sustainable solutions to address environmental challenges.

Effectuation, Causation and the Performance of Entrepreneurial Businesses

Volume 26, Issue 1, April 2022, Pages 88-110

Vajihe Baghersad; Ali Davari; Taraneh Farrokhmanesh

Abstract Purposefulness, feasibility and performance of entrepreneurial businesses
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Purposefulness (causality) and possibilityism (effectiveness) are two decision logics that entrepreneurs use in doing activities. Over the past two decades, much attention has been paid to these two behavioral logics that entrepreneurs use to start and develop new companies. Existing research suggests that business performance is associated with purposefulness and feasibility. The purpose of this paper is to examine the purposefulness and feasibility (with four dimensions of experimentation, tolerable loss, flexibility and pre-commitment) on business performance using structural equation modeling. This research is applied from the perspective of purpose and the data are collected by descriptive-correlation method. The statistical population of the study is businesses active in the information technology industry. The statistical sample through Cochran's formula includes 175 entrepreneurs active in this field who have been selected by random sampling method. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS26 and SmartPLS3 software. Research findings show that flexibility, goal orientation, experimentation have a positive and significant relationship with entrepreneurial performance; And tolerable losses and pre-commitments have a negative and significant relationship with performance. In other words, the relationship between tolerable losses and pre-commitments is inversely related to performance, and with the increase of either of these, the performance of the business decreases. The reason for this discrepancy may be explained in the results due to differences, and finally some suggestions for research are provided.

Designing an Entrepreneurship Development Policy Model in Iran

Volume 25, Issue 1, April 2021, Pages 163-182

MOHAMMAD MORTEZA JAVADI; mohsen rezaee mirghaed; MEHDI ALVANI; MORTEZA MUSAKHANI; Parham Azimi

Abstract The purpose of this study is to design a policy model of entrepreneurship development in Iran, this research is a mixed study. In the first part, based on library studies and specialized interviews, the policy indicators of government entrepreneurship development were identified and in the next stage, questionnaires were distributed among entrepreneurship experts. The statistical population consisted of qualitative academic experts and theoretical experts. The sampling process continued until theoretical saturation was achieved and 11 experts participated in this stage. The statistical population in the quantitative section (validation and presentation of the final model) were managers and experts of government organizations. Methods of data analysis include grounded theory, structural-interpretive modeling, and partial least squares. In this study, 9 main categories and 44 sub-categories were identified to design a policy model for government entrepreneurship development in Iran. These categories were categorized into 6 paradigms with the titles of contextual conditions, causal conditions, pivotal phenomena, strategies and actions, intervening conditions, and consequences. Following the research process, the fuzzy Delphi technique was performed in two stages of screening and validation of the criteria obtained from the qualitative analysis of the research. Then, the relationships between the criteria of government entrepreneurship development policy in Iran were identified and entrepreneurship development was identified as the first level variable. Also, based on the standard factor load and the value of t-statistic, except for hypotheses seven, nine and eighteen, all research hypotheses and the relationship between variables were confirmed.

Design and Explanation of E- Entrepreneurial Organization Model in Iranian Banking Industry (Case Study: Refah Bank)

Volume 23, Issue 2, July 2019, Pages 28-53

majid eshqi; hasan darvish; mohammad mosavi

Abstract Considering the crucial position of the banking system is in the country's economic development and the competitive environment prevailing in the banking industry, designing and defining a new institutional pattern make this face on the banks to be felt. Therefore identifying the main components of the e-entrepreneurial organization dimensions and its pattern and delivering it to run on the banking system is the main aim of this paper.    The statistical society of the research has been 214 members of the managers and experts of the Refah Bank's headquarters offices in Tehran. At first the conceptual model of e-entrepreneurial organization was drown from implementation of Delphi Method. Statistical Analysis has been used in the following of identification the relationship between variables and testing 7 hypotheses considered for this study (which has been conducted through SPSS and Lisrel).     In accordance to findings of this research, if organization elements get influenced by the entrepreneurship process and the acquisition of e-readiness process, under the influence of values ruling the society and banking industry, the result will be a new face of organization which can call it “the electronic entrepreneurial organization”. Due to providing customers with new products and creating electronically values for them, EEO has more efficacy than traditional organizations.  

The Relationship between Managers’ Entrepreneurship and Quality of Staff’s Working Life in Higher Education Institutions

Volume 17, Issue 2, May 2013, Pages 223-242

Fattah Nazem

Abstract The main objective of the present study is to investigate the relationship between the managers’ entrepreneurship and the quality of the staff’s working life and determining math pattern for the employee's quality of work life based on the managers' entrepreneurship. The research population includes all managers of Islamic Azad University employed in different branches of the university. Using the stratified and cluster random sampling, 456 mangers, along with three employees under the supervision of each manager (total 1368 staffs) were chosen from different branches of Islamic Azad University. The assessment tools were the researcher-made questionnaires of entrepreneurship and the quality of work life. The questionnaire of entrepreneurship was administered to the managers, and the questionnaire of the quality of work life was administered to three staffs under the supervision of each manager. The results of the analysis of the multi-variation regression showed that there is a relationship between the managers’ entrepreneurship and the quality of the staff’s working life (p £ 0.05 & β= 0.10), and the math pattern for the quality of the staff’s working life based on the  managers’ entrepreneurship in the branches of Islamic Azad University is as follows: The quality of the staff’s working life = 0.10 × the managers’ entrepreneurship + 135.621.

-Management Strategies and view of Iranian women entrepreneurs to success

Volume 12, Issue 1, March 2008, Pages 55-77

Zahra Arasti; Mohamadreza Akbarijokar

Abstract Entrepreneurship is a new phenomena Iin Iiran and the research in this subject especially in women entrepreneurship is very limited. In spite of the fact that most of the Iranian Women coperate in economic and, social aspects and especially in higher education, the society is not reaping the rewards of all their cooperations and efforts in economic affairs. On the other hand, different strategies of men and women entrepreneurs in start up process and business management as well as their different views to success are the sources of differences in their businesses. In favor of total knowledge of Iranian women’s businesses and the factors that influence the process of start-up, a vast and national research on educated women entrepreneur population was done through a questionnaire built for this subject. The questionnaire was and corrected by the experts and a pretest. This article presents a part of the results about strategies and views of Iranian women entrepreneurs to success. The results point out that Iranian women entrepreneurs start their businesses by planning and presentation of the best quality of products or services. This planning results in prosperity of their businesses. Iranian women entrepreneurs also view success of business in obtaining personal satisfaction and improvement of their abilities, then in profit.

Investigation of Corporate Entrepreneurship Obstacles; An Empirical Evidence from North Wood Industry Company

Volume 11, Issue 20, December 2007, Pages 141-159

Asadollah Kordnaie; Hassan Akbari; Ali Rezaeian

Abstract It’s well known that today’s organizationsens counter the national, regional and international dynamic and complex changes.The survival and development of all organizations require to provide some new methods, alternatives, innovations (new products and services)processes and so on. Since Corporate entrepreneurship involves promoting the entrepreneurial behaviors in an organization, therefore, the organizations have to consider the "corporate entrepreneurship" as a critical success factor. In this paper, the authors atlempted to recognize the corporate entrepreneurship obstacles. Thus, organizational culture, supervision and control, attention to short & long term profits and the ways of giving rewards were studied. The obtained results based on the statistical analysis showed that the conservative organization al culture, close supervision and control, attention to short term profits, and giving unappropriate rewards are the fundamental obstacles of corporate entrepreneurship.

Designing the Organizational Structure of Entrepreneurship Centers: An Empirical Case Study in Islamic Republic of Iran

Volume 9, Issue 2, July 2005, Pages 119-156

Asadollah Kordnaiej; Mahmood Ahmadpour Dariani; Shahabeddin Shams

Abstract Todays, Entrepreneurship is considered as the Economic Development engine and all countries attempt to develop it in their countries. With respect to the high importance of entrepreneurship and the necessity of its development in our country, this research is aimed to study and design the organizational structure of entrepreneurship in Iran. In this research, using the comparative studies of sucessful entrepreneurship centers and with considering the theorical fundaments of designing organizational structure and local and reginal conditions of I. R. Iran, the appropriate organizational structure of entrepreneurship centers has been designed.