Factors Affecting the Entrepreneurship Development in Fars Province with an Emphasis on Cooperatives Sector

Authors

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Abstract

     Nowadays, special attention to enterprenuers in most countries.Foster entrepreneurship and create a favorable environment are particularly considered necessary tools to develop economic progress in developing countries.The aim of this study is to investigate the factors affecting the development of enteprenurship in the cooperative sector in the geographic area of the Fars province.The study sample is consisted of 48 top enterprenures from Fars province during the years 1388-92 that the required information was collected by using questionnaire. Its validity is confirmed by experts and its reliability is approved through Cronbach's alpha after evaluating the completed questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed by different statistical methods such as Spearman correlation coefficient and exploratory factor analysis and the software spss 18. The results of exploratory factor analysis showed that the variables were summarized after 7 operating rotation. In other words, there are 7 factors that were statistically significant with special value more than 1 by indicating 743/88 percent of the total variance between variables and factors. Factor analysis results showed that the "general legislation" was the most influential factor for the development of entrepreneurship by indicating more than 16% of the total variance. But, "cultural factors" is the least factor by indicating 822/8 percent of the total variance

Keywords

• : Human resource development
• enterpenure
• cooperative
• Fars province

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