Developing feasibility of women head of households self-employed Business Continuity management scenarios by future study in Chardavol Township- ilam

Authors

• Hossien mahdizade ¹
• Masomeh Jamshidi ²
• Alireza Jamshidi ³

¹ Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Rural Development, Ilam University, Ilam, Iran.

² Visiting professor of Rural Planning Entrepreneurship and Rural Development Department, Ilam University, Ilam, Iran.

³ Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran.

10.30495/jzpm.2022.5420

Abstract

Futures Studies in Planning the Self-Employed Businesses Continuity for Women-Headed Households will find the key drivers, key variables, and uncertainties in the development of women's economic empowerment, and will shape the desired future management. The purpose of this study was to identify the factors affecting the management of women's self-employed business continuity management in Chardavol Township, identifying key variables and developing effective scenarios for its realization. The purpose of this study is practical and it is a descriptive-analytical research conducted with an interpretive structural approach to measure the interactions of variables. In terms of the nature of the data, this research is a combination (quantitative and qualitative) and is based on documentary and survey data collection method. The results showed that out of the developed scenarios, there are 6 scenarios with strong adaptation to the future of self-employed women business continuity management in Chardavol. Of the six scenarios mentioned, three scenarios one, two, and three are perfectly desirable, and scenario 1 is the best-case scenario of managing self-employed business continuity of women-headed households in Chardavol.
The results showed that out of the developed scenarios, there are 6 scenarios with strong adaptation to the future of self-employed women business continuity management in Chardavol. Of the six scenarios mentioned, three scenarios one, two, and three are perfectly desirable, and scenario 1 is the best-case scenario of managing self-employed business continuity of women-headed households in Chardavol.
The results showed that out of the developed scenarios, there are 6 scenarios with strong adaptation to the future of self-employed women business continuity management in Chardavol. Of the six scenarios mentioned, three scenarios one, two, and three are perfectly desirable, and scenario 1 is the best-case scenario of managing self-employed business continuity of women-headed households in Chardavol.

Keywords

• "Self-employed Business Continuity"
• "Future Study"
• "Scenario Making"
• "Chardavol Township"
• "women head of households"

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