Agricultural Extension and Education
Hamid Rastegari; Zakaria Mohammadi Tamari; Maryam Sharifzadeh
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Nowadays, expanding entrepreneurship culture which depends on nurturing skills, abilities and entrepreneurial capabilities in societies and providing appropriate ethical business setting is regarded as one of the main factors for the economic development of societies. Thus, identifying entrepreneurial ...
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Nowadays, expanding entrepreneurship culture which depends on nurturing skills, abilities and entrepreneurial capabilities in societies and providing appropriate ethical business setting is regarded as one of the main factors for the economic development of societies. Thus, identifying entrepreneurial traits, skills, and abilities and particularly rural entrepreneurial competencies can be of great help to advance this issue. Therefore, the main objective of the present descriptive study is to identify and prioritize rural entrepreneurship skills. Key informants who participated in this research study were seven academic rural development experts who were selected based on Judgement (or Purposive) sampling to achieve theoretical saturation. The archival research technique was used to elicit and specify rural entrepreneurial skills, and then the structured protocols were used to collect information regarding the importance of the elicited skills. Data processing was done using the Artificial Neural Network technique in the MATLAB software. The results showed that social relationships, marketing and customer management skills, strategic planning, business startup and administration, and risk management ranked first to fifth, respectively. Among the five categories of entrepreneurship skills, “opportunity skills” and “management skills” ranked first and last, respectively. Some suggestions are provided in order to develop rural entrepreneurial skills based on the results obtained in this research study.
Agricultural Extension and Education
Bahman Khosravipour; Soheila Pourjavid
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Entrepreneurship is a process that plays a critical role in the continued growth and national development plays. Its importance to the point that economists, entrepreneurs are the engine of economic growth and development. Promote women's entrepreneurial activities, effective stimulus to growth and economic ...
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Entrepreneurship is a process that plays a critical role in the continued growth and national development plays. Its importance to the point that economists, entrepreneurs are the engine of economic growth and development. Promote women's entrepreneurial activities, effective stimulus to growth and economic development and improve the quality of their life is. The aim of this study was to identify factors affecting the development of entrepreneurship in small businesses (SME) Rural Women Islamabad city was using the techniques of content analysis. This form of qualitative research is done with the participation of 48 entrepreneurship Rural Women Islamabad city. Information is collected through interviews with women entrepreneurs, and Content analysis was used to analyze the data. The content analysis showed that, personal factors, environmental factors, Socio-cultural factors, motivational factors, Education and extension, Policy factors and management factors, the general factors that are influencing the entrepreneurship in small businesses (SME) Rural. Therefore, with regard to the results of the analysis has been done to increase slightly the number of entrepreneurs in rural, Quality improvement category entrepreneurship in rural small businesses (SME) and the culture of entrepreneurship And self-employed in rural communities, especially among rural women whose arms are capable of rural activities, Policy to encourage and support small businesses (SME) Rural women are recommended by the government. Therefore Regarding the variables of each of these components and strengthen them can Motivate women in rural areas and development of the business in the village.
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Ali Ghasemi Ardahaee; Reza Noubakht; Nayereh Rostami
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Entrepreneurship and sustainable rural employment are the main concerns of rural planners. One of the most basic requirements for this is that young people remain in the rural areas. Accordingly, the aim of this paper is to identify individual and structural factors that are effective in keeping young ...
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Entrepreneurship and sustainable rural employment are the main concerns of rural planners. One of the most basic requirements for this is that young people remain in the rural areas. Accordingly, the aim of this paper is to identify individual and structural factors that are effective in keeping young people in rural areas. Statistical results of the bivariate and multilevel modeling (HLM) shows that rural youth are not willing to stay in rural regions. One may cite the following individual factors contributing to this lack of interest in staying in rural areas: age, marital status, education, communication with relatives in the city, as well as employment status and job skills. People with higher human capital who have technical skills and building related non-agricultural skills are not interested in staying in rural areas. Moreover, the increased population in the villages and lack of social welfare facilities in village are highly effective in reducing the tendency of young people to stay in the villages.
