Effect of Intellectual Capital Components on Organizational Entrepreneurship in Agricultural Consulting, Technical and Engineering Service Ventures in Zanjan Province

Organizational entrepreneurship as one of the main forms of entrepreneurship has a key role in success of organizations and ventures. On the other hand, among the various factors influencing the organizational entrepreneurship development, intellectual capital, as one of the valuable organization's resources, is considered an essential factor in the institutionalization and development of organizational entrepreneurship. Therefore, the main purpose of this descriptive- correlative research was to study of the effect of intellectual capital components on organizational entrepreneurship in Agricultural Consulting, Technical and Engineering Services Ventures (ACTESV). The statistical population of the research consisted of all experts in the ACTESV in Zanjan Province (N= 301). According to the Bartlett et al., a sample size of 207 was selected using stratified random sampling technique. The standard questionnaires were used to collect data. The content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by a panel of experts. The construct validity and the composite reliability of the research instrument were tested by estimating the measurement model and they were satisfied after making necessary corrections. The results showed that the main hypotheses of the research have verified and three components of intellectual capital including human, structural and relational had a positive and significant effect on dependent variable. The components totally explained about 62 percent of variances of organizational entrepreneurship in the ACTESV in Zanjan Province. Based on the findings, it can be concluded that increasing intellectual capital in the ventures directly results in reinforcing and developing organizational entrepreneurship in the ACTESV.