Evaluating Faculty Member's Attitudes Regarding to Entrepreneurship Obstacles in Agricultural Faculties of Iran

Fallah Haghighi, Negin; Razavi, Seyed Mostafa; Rezvanfar, Ahmad; Kalantari, Khalil

doi:10.22059/jomc.2014.51186

Evaluating Faculty Member's Attitudes Regarding to Entrepreneurship Obstacles in Agricultural Faculties of Iran

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

Negin Fallah Haghighi ¹

Seyed Mostafa Razavi ²

Ahmad Rezvanfar ³

Khalil Kalantari ³

¹ Assistant professor, Department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST), Tehran

² Associate professor, Department of Management, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran

³ Professor, Department of Agricultural extension and education, Faculty of economics and agricultural development, university of Tehran, Karaj

10.22059/jomc.2014.51186

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigating Faculty member's attitudes regarding to Entrepreneurship Obstacles in Agricultural Faculties of Iran. Statistical population was faculty members of Agricultural Faculties of Iran that by using stratified random sampling method, 344 of them were selected as sample. The instrument of data gathering was questionnaire and analyzing gathered data were done by SPSS software. Factor Analysis technique were used as the main technique to recognize the challenges of entrepreneurship in agricultural faculties of Iran. On the basis of factor analysis results, 5 infrastructural factors were recognized as the most important Obstacles of Entrepreneurship in Agricultural Faculties that were: "Educational Obstacles", "Individual – Characteristic Obstacles", "Law – Support Obstacles", "Facilities Obstacles" and "Communication Obstacles”, which totally defined 70.395 percent of total variance that among the recognized obstacles, "Educational Obstacles" had the highest percent of variance definition.

Keywords

Agricultural Faculties

Entrepreneurship

Faculty Members

Iran

Obstacles