In the conceptual frame of rural and agricultural development, the emphasis on improving the quality and empowerment of rural women and advancement of their working conditions in rural communities is what needs to be carefully stressed. Entrepreneurship development and empowerment are in complementary touch with each other and lead to strengthening women in various entrepreneurial activities including social, economic and cultural fields. This research is set out to investigate the relationship between entrepreneurship, empowerment capacities and analyze the structures affecting the various aspects of rural women's empowerment in Fars province. Implementing a survey method and questionnaires, the present research is conducted among rural women entrepreneurs membered in Agricultural Activities Backing Company in Fars. Totally, a sample of 393 participants was selected through stratified random sampling. According to the findings of regression analysis, the variables of entrepreneurship motivation, entrepreneurship development, participation in training courses, entrepreneurship knowledge, the rate of applying information resources, environmental factors (business environment), supportive policies, and skills in compiling a business plan were able of predicting 56% of women's empowerment changes. The variables of entrepreneurship motivation in entrepreneurial activities, supportive policies and the skills of compiling a business plan depicted the maximum and minimum rate of predicting women's empowerment changes, respectively. The availability of raw and in process materials, ratification of the appropriate laws in line with improving women's business, women's participation in training courses held by the company, improving the conditions for selling products, increasing more positive interest and motivation among the company members and paying attention to the professional needs of membered women are among the focal suggestions of the present research.
{"title":"Relationship Between Entrepreneurship and Empowerment Dimensions of Rural Women in Fars Province","authors":"Marjan Golkar Fard, K. Rezaei-Moghaddam","doi":"10.29252/JEA.6.11.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29252/JEA.6.11.1","url":null,"abstract":"In the conceptual frame of rural and agricultural development, the emphasis on improving the quality and empowerment of rural women and advancement of their working conditions in rural communities is what needs to be carefully stressed. Entrepreneurship development and empowerment are in complementary touch with each other and lead to strengthening women in various entrepreneurial activities including social, economic and cultural fields. This research is set out to investigate the relationship between entrepreneurship, empowerment capacities and analyze the structures affecting the various aspects of rural women's empowerment in Fars province. Implementing a survey method and questionnaires, the present research is conducted among rural women entrepreneurs membered in Agricultural Activities Backing Company in Fars. Totally, a sample of 393 participants was selected through stratified random sampling. According to the findings of regression analysis, the variables of entrepreneurship motivation, entrepreneurship development, participation in training courses, entrepreneurship knowledge, the rate of applying information resources, environmental factors (business environment), supportive policies, and skills in compiling a business plan were able of predicting 56% of women's empowerment changes. The variables of entrepreneurship motivation in entrepreneurial activities, supportive policies and the skills of compiling a business plan depicted the maximum and minimum rate of predicting women's empowerment changes, respectively. The availability of raw and in process materials, ratification of the appropriate laws in line with improving women's business, women's participation in training courses held by the company, improving the conditions for selling products, increasing more positive interest and motivation among the company members and paying attention to the professional needs of membered women are among the focal suggestions of the present research.","PeriodicalId":106724,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Entrepreneurial Strategies in Agriculture","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134251869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The purpose of the present study was to identify the employment feasibilitis and effective job opportunity strategies in villages of Mashhad-e-Morghab district, Fars province which was conducted in a survey between experts and local elites. The data were collected using a protocol and a questionnaire with open and closed questions which were analyzed using SWOT technique in 96 year. The results showed that the study area faced by 39 factors pertaining to weaknesses (with weight of 0.876), 28 factors of threats (with weight of 0.952), 14 strength factors (with weight of 1.917) and three factors pertaining to opportunities (with weight of 1.659) for developing job opportunity. According to the Strategic Assesment and Spacead Matrix and the total value of strengths and opportunities, the aggressive strategy (SO), which focuses on internal strengths and external opportunities was identified as a priority of strategies for employment in rural villages of Mashhad-e-Morghab district. Therefore, in presenting job opportunity strategies in the studied area, the focus is on internal weaknesses (such as lack of adequate budget allocation for entrepreneurship, rural financial weakness, mismanagement of water resources with total value of 0.028) and external threats (drought and high banking profits with total value of 0.03). Also, in categorizing of identified capacities, the most important factor in the weaknesses and threats in creating employment are the economic factors. Finally, according to the results of the study, applied strategies for developing job opportunity in Mashhad-e- Morghab district were recommended.
{"title":"Identifying Feasibilitis and Effective Strategies for Developing Job Opportunity in Rural Areas of the Mashhad-e-Morghab district","authors":"E. Kanani, M. Ahmadvand","doi":"10.29252/jea.5.10.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29252/jea.5.10.34","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the present study was to identify the employment feasibilitis and effective job opportunity strategies in villages of Mashhad-e-Morghab district, Fars province which was conducted in a survey between experts and local elites. The data were collected using a protocol and a questionnaire with open and closed questions which were analyzed using SWOT technique in 96 year. The results showed that the study area faced by 39 factors pertaining to weaknesses (with weight of 0.876), 28 factors of threats (with weight of 0.952), 14 strength factors (with weight of 1.917) and three factors pertaining to opportunities (with weight of 1.659) for developing job opportunity. According to the Strategic Assesment and Spacead Matrix and the total value of strengths and opportunities, the aggressive strategy (SO), which focuses on internal strengths and external opportunities was identified as a priority of strategies for employment in rural villages of Mashhad-e-Morghab district. Therefore, in presenting job opportunity strategies in the studied area, the focus is on internal weaknesses (such as lack of adequate budget allocation for entrepreneurship, rural financial weakness, mismanagement of water resources with total value of 0.028) and external threats (drought and high banking profits with total value of 0.03). Also, in categorizing of identified capacities, the most important factor in the weaknesses and threats in creating employment are the economic factors. Finally, according to the results of the study, applied strategies for developing job opportunity in Mashhad-e- Morghab district were recommended.","PeriodicalId":106724,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Entrepreneurial Strategies in Agriculture","volume":"17 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120860570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Entrepreneurship is a source of flexibility, innovation, job creation for the economy, and an interesting opportunity for professional development. In this research, the role of the university in creating entrepreneurship awareness among the students of Isfahan University of Technology has been studied. The statistical population of this study is graduate, postgraduate, and undergraduate students who have completed at least two years of study. The research method was descriptive and analytic and a questionnaire was used. Content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by using the Kmo coefficient and Bartlett's test and the reliability of the Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used, indicating that the instrument was stable at 91%. Sample size was determined using Cochran formula and stratified sampling method with proportional assignment was used. As a sample, 98 students were selected in faculty of agricultural engineering. To analyze the data, descriptive and inferential statistics such as frequency, mean, Kruskal test, Mann-Whitney, Pearson correlation coefficient and regression were used. The results of the crolation analysis showed that thera are 99 percent significant relationship between the variables of the characteristics of the entrepreneurial university and the level of awareness of the entrepreneurial activities of the colleges.
{"title":"Studying the Entrepreneurial Characteristics of Agricultural Students (Case Study: Isfahn Uiversity of Technology)","authors":"M. Ebrahimi, Ziba Bahrami","doi":"10.29252/jea.5.10.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29252/jea.5.10.10","url":null,"abstract":"Entrepreneurship is a source of flexibility, innovation, job creation for the economy, and an interesting opportunity for professional development. In this research, the role of the university in creating entrepreneurship awareness among the students of Isfahan University of Technology has been studied. The statistical population of this study is graduate, postgraduate, and undergraduate students who have completed at least two years of study. The research method was descriptive and analytic and a questionnaire was used. Content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by using the Kmo coefficient and Bartlett's test and the reliability of the Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used, indicating that the instrument was stable at 91%. Sample size was determined using Cochran formula and stratified sampling method with proportional assignment was used. As a sample, 98 students were selected in faculty of agricultural engineering. To analyze the data, descriptive and inferential statistics such as frequency, mean, Kruskal test, Mann-Whitney, Pearson correlation coefficient and regression were used. The results of the crolation analysis showed that thera are 99 percent significant relationship between the variables of the characteristics of the entrepreneurial university and the level of awareness of the entrepreneurial activities of the colleges.","PeriodicalId":106724,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Entrepreneurial Strategies in Agriculture","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128736101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The aim of this study was to identify the challenges of rural women entrepreneurship development in Ilam city. The statistical population of the study consisted of rural women entrepreneurs in Ilam city who were studied by census method. The data gathering tool was a researcher-made questionnaire whose content validity was confirmed by the opinion of the faculty members and experts of rural extension and development. The reliability of the research instrument was determined using Cronbach's alpha coefficient (α = . ). Data analysis was done using descriptive statistics and factor analysis with SSPS software. The results of factor analysis with exploratory approach led to the identification of four factors that explained in the form of educational training challenges, economic and legal challenges, individual and mental challenges, and socio-cultural challenges of . of the total variance. Extension and educational challenges as the first factor with a special amount of had the highest share ( . ) and social cultural challenges with a special amount of . of the lowest contribution ( . ) in explaining the total variance.
{"title":"Challenges for Rural Women Entrepreneurship Development (The Case Study: Ilam City)","authors":"nasrin koohi, hamed chaharsoughi amin","doi":"10.29252/jea.5.10.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29252/jea.5.10.55","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study was to identify the challenges of rural women entrepreneurship development in Ilam city. The statistical population of the study consisted of rural women entrepreneurs in Ilam city who were studied by census method. The data gathering tool was a researcher-made questionnaire whose content validity was confirmed by the opinion of the faculty members and experts of rural extension and development. The reliability of the research instrument was determined using Cronbach's alpha coefficient (α = . ). Data analysis was done using descriptive statistics and factor analysis with SSPS software. The results of factor analysis with exploratory approach led to the identification of four factors that explained in the form of educational training challenges, economic and legal challenges, individual and mental challenges, and socio-cultural challenges of . of the total variance. Extension and educational challenges as the first factor with a special amount of had the highest share ( . ) and social cultural challenges with a special amount of . of the lowest contribution ( . ) in explaining the total variance.","PeriodicalId":106724,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Entrepreneurial Strategies in Agriculture","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130471137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Amirnejad, Fatemeh Mazrae, Roghoyeh Zahedian Tajanki
Now, the role of cooperatives in socio-economic development, equipping capital and thoughts, and then changing them to effective powers in the process of socio-economic development, distributing the benefits of this process in a more equitable manner among people specially the poor and low-income masses, is obvious for all of us. For determining the level of cooperative success to achieve their goals, it is necessary to investigate their activities. The study of financial situation of cooperative is one of the important case in the study of cooperative conditions. So, this research will investigate the effective factors on financial success of agricultural cooperatives in Sari, Babol, and Amol cities during 1395 and 1396. Requirement data was collected by filling in questionnaire, then analyzed by SPSS and Eviews software. The results showed the level of staff's education, the level of manager's education and manager's experience have positive and significant effect on stockholder's profit. In other words, if manager experience and the number of educated staff increase, stockholders profit will increase 5.73 and 1.25 Million Tomans, respectively. Also the result showed if manager education increase for one year, stockholders profit will increase 42.14 million Toman. The finding also showed active agricultural cooperatives in Sari will pay more profit to their stockholders than cooperatives in Babol and Amol cities.
{"title":"Investigating the Factors Affecting the Financial Success of Agricultural Enterprises (Case Study of Agricultural Cooperatives in selected cities)","authors":"H. Amirnejad, Fatemeh Mazrae, Roghoyeh Zahedian Tajanki","doi":"10.29252/jea.5.10.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29252/jea.5.10.20","url":null,"abstract":"Now, the role of cooperatives in socio-economic development, equipping capital and thoughts, and then changing them to effective powers in the process of socio-economic development, distributing the benefits of this process in a more equitable manner among people specially the poor and low-income masses, is obvious for all of us. For determining the level of cooperative success to achieve their goals, it is necessary to investigate their activities. The study of financial situation of cooperative is one of the important case in the study of cooperative conditions. So, this research will investigate the effective factors on financial success of agricultural cooperatives in Sari, Babol, and Amol cities during 1395 and 1396. Requirement data was collected by filling in questionnaire, then analyzed by SPSS and Eviews software. The results showed the level of staff's education, the level of manager's education and manager's experience have positive and significant effect on stockholder's profit. In other words, if manager experience and the number of educated staff increase, stockholders profit will increase 5.73 and 1.25 Million Tomans, respectively. Also the result showed if manager education increase for one year, stockholders profit will increase 42.14 million Toman. The finding also showed active agricultural cooperatives in Sari will pay more profit to their stockholders than cooperatives in Babol and Amol cities.","PeriodicalId":106724,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Entrepreneurial Strategies in Agriculture","volume":"272 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114478709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Entrepreneurship as the capacity of exploring and exploitation of profitable opportunities is the center of gravity of the work and development in the present era. This study sought to answer the question of why, when, and how some people recognize and exploit opportunities, while others do not have this ability. Accordingly, this survey study was conducted to study the effects of emotional intelligence on rural entrepreneurship. For this purpose, two standardized questionnaires (Bar-on's Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i) and Scarborough and Zimmerer's Entrepreneurship Questionnaire) were used to collect data from rural residents of Gallehdar district, Fars province. After confirming the validity of research tool by experts, to assess its reliability the pilot study was conducted and Cronbach's alpha coefficient was estimated from . to . . The results showed that there was a significant positive correlation between emotional intelligence and entrepreneurship among participants. So, people who were better and more able to identify, control and appropriately manage self and others' emotions were more likely shown entrepreneurial tendency in comparison to others. Also, regression analysis revealed that the components of intrapersonal relationships, interpersonal relationships, adaptability and the general mood were able to predict . of the variance of the rural entrepreneurship.
企业家精神作为一种探索和利用盈利机会的能力，是当今时代工作和发展的重心。这项研究试图回答为什么，何时，以及如何一些人认识和利用机会，而其他人没有这种能力的问题。因此，本研究旨在探讨情绪智力对农村创业的影响。为此，采用Bar-on’s Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i)和Scarborough and Zimmerer’s Entrepreneurship Questionnaire两份标准化问卷对法尔斯省Gallehdar区农村居民进行数据收集。在专家确认研究工具的有效性后，为评估其信度，进行了初步研究，并估计Cronbach's alpha系数。To…结果表明，被试情绪智力与创业精神存在显著的正相关关系。因此，能够更好地识别、控制和适当管理自我和他人情绪的人比其他人更有可能表现出创业倾向。此外，回归分析显示，人际关系、人际关系、适应性和一般情绪的成分能够预测。农村企业家精神的变异。
{"title":"An Analysis of the Influence of Emotional Intelligence Components on Rural Entrepreneurial Opportunities: The Case of Fars Province","authors":"Morteza Nouri, M. Sharifzadeh","doi":"10.29252/jea.5.10.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29252/jea.5.10.1","url":null,"abstract":"Entrepreneurship as the capacity of exploring and exploitation of profitable opportunities is the center of gravity of the work and development in the present era. This study sought to answer the question of why, when, and how some people recognize and exploit opportunities, while others do not have this ability. Accordingly, this survey study was conducted to study the effects of emotional intelligence on rural entrepreneurship. For this purpose, two standardized questionnaires (Bar-on's Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i) and Scarborough and Zimmerer's Entrepreneurship Questionnaire) were used to collect data from rural residents of Gallehdar district, Fars province. After confirming the validity of research tool by experts, to assess its reliability the pilot study was conducted and Cronbach's alpha coefficient was estimated from . to . . The results showed that there was a significant positive correlation between emotional intelligence and entrepreneurship among participants. So, people who were better and more able to identify, control and appropriately manage self and others' emotions were more likely shown entrepreneurial tendency in comparison to others. Also, regression analysis revealed that the components of intrapersonal relationships, interpersonal relationships, adaptability and the general mood were able to predict . of the variance of the rural entrepreneurship.","PeriodicalId":106724,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Entrepreneurial Strategies in Agriculture","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134584398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Job Motivation and Optimal Occupational Decision Making: The Case of Farmers in Marvdasht Township","authors":"T. Azizi-Khalkheili, G. Zamani, E. Karami","doi":"10.29252/jea.5.10.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29252/jea.5.10.27","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":106724,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Entrepreneurial Strategies in Agriculture","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134360906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Bahmani, Seyed Mehdi Mousavi Davoudi, Mehdi Vaezi
{"title":"Investigating the Role of Green Entrepreneurship Orientation in Increasing the Performance of Agricultural Jihad Organization","authors":"A. Bahmani, Seyed Mehdi Mousavi Davoudi, Mehdi Vaezi","doi":"10.29252/jea.5.10.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29252/jea.5.10.45","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":106724,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Entrepreneurial Strategies in Agriculture","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126851820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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