The Integrated Application of Analectic Hierarchical Process (AHP) and Linear Assignment Techniques in Evaluating the Importance of Entrepreneurs’ Characteristic Criteria

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One of the most important words used commonly in the context of secular development is entrepreneurship. Although entrepreneurship is not the best and last solution for all economical problems in every country, but it is a new subject in the context of economical development.
The purpose of this paper is to scientifically review the seven characteristic criteria related to entrepreneurs that were first introduced by Jennings and his colleagues in 1994. Initially we formulated a mathematical model in order to rank the criteria on the basis of their values for different people. Then the weights or importance of ten experts’ ideas including 6 faculties and 4 successful entrepreneurs that we introduce them as entrepreneurial experts about entrepreneurial criteria were considered and were ranked using analectic hierarchical process (AHP) method. In the next level, we formulated and solved a mathematical model called linear assignment in order to rank and evaluate entrepreneurs’ characteristic criteria. In conclusion it was found that the characteristics of entrepreneurial creativity for the first stars, risk taking second, third need to achievement Fear of failure and fourth place respectively in the next rating criteria for independence Welfare orientation, and power tendency the fifth to seventh grades are given....

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