Administrative corruption and the challenges of entrepreneurship development

Objective: In recent years, the study on the corruption in the governmental sector has been concerned and grown. Corruption is an endemic and global phenomenon and therefore, it should be acknowledged that the corruption and dealing with it are challenge in many countries of the world. Methodology: Given the plans have been accomplished to deal with this phenomenon by the countries, but we witness its growing trend in different sectors of the society again. The entrepreneurship subject is one of the topics emphasized in the economic development. The economic development publicly and entrepreneurship specifically are from the domains which are not immune from these effects. Results: This research explains the role of administrative corruption on the entrepreneurship development. In the first part, a summary of the concepts of corruption, entrepreneurship, correlation between corruption and entrepreneurship is presented and in the second part, the situation in Iran is examined based on data collected from International Transparency Institute and Global Development Entrepreneurship Institute. Conclusion: Research findings suggest that corruption can have a positive or negative impact on entrepreneurship, but its impact is more severe and more harmful. Also, according to the statistics provided, it can be concluded that with an approximate fixation of the rate of corruption over the past few years, entrepreneurship development in Iran has grown modestly.