vahid Aliabadi; Saeed Gholamrazai
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Considering the importance of SMEs in economic development many of developed and developing countries prioritize the establishment and supporting of them. For emerging entrepreneurial activities the related competencies are necessity. Purpose of this study is predicting variables affecting to students’ ...
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Considering the importance of SMEs in economic development many of developed and developing countries prioritize the establishment and supporting of them. For emerging entrepreneurial activities the related competencies are necessity. Purpose of this study is predicting variables affecting to students’ tendency to SMEs startup with focusing the required Competencies. Statistical population the study consisted of 198 Agricultural extension and education student at Bu Ali Sina University. According to the Patton’s table, a sample size of 164 was selected using a Quota sampling method. The questionnaires were used to collect the data. Questionnaire’s reliability was confirmed by calculating Cronbach’s alpha formula and its coefficient is (α=0.88).Data were analyzed by ordinal regression equation with SPSS software. Using logistic regression, it was found that 26% of changes in the tendency to launch small and medium businesses are the most important influential variable on the tendency of students to set up small and medium enterprises, are strategic competencies. Results of U test (Mann Whitney test) showed that there are significant differences between girls and boys students in opportunity, communicative and mental competenciesOnly 17 percent of high-end students are in the of attitude small businesses.
Mohammad Mehdi Mardanshahi
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Raising agricultural graduates' unemployment and their inability to startup business and entrepreneurship is a crucial problem in Iran. The purpose of this study was to analyzing factors affecting agricultural graduates' business startup competencies. The statistical population consisted of all agriculture ...
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Raising agricultural graduates' unemployment and their inability to startup business and entrepreneurship is a crucial problem in Iran. The purpose of this study was to analyzing factors affecting agricultural graduates' business startup competencies. The statistical population consisted of all agriculture and natural resources, graduats during 2013-2016 in Mazandaran Province (N= 2550), among them 364 were randomaly selected based on Cochran Formula. The research instrument used was a questionnaire. Its validity was confirmed by a panel of experts and also its reliability was estimated to be θ= 0.912 using ordinal theta coeficient. In order to analyze the data, SPSSwin20 was used. The correlation tests, mann-whitney U and ordinal regression were used for data analysis. The results showed that, approximately 59 as percont of respondents ranked their business startup competencies at high and very high level. Appliying ordinal regression showed that, three variables including gender, education and character can estimate 67 percent of possibility of changing the dependent variable.
