Designing a social entrepreneurship model with an interpretive structural modeling approach

Social entrepreneurship is one of the most important and expanding aspects of entrepreneurial activities at the international level and has a long history. The purpose of this study is to design an interpretive structural model for social entrepreneurship that has been done as a case study in the Social Security Organization. The research method of descriptive-correlational was applied. According to the research methodological process, in the first step, the elements of the social entrepreneurship model were extracted as a result of reviewing the research background and theoretical models, as well as interviewing a group of experts. The outcome of this stage was the identification of 19 components in the form of five main dimensions including social value, contextual factors, taking advantage of opportunities, people and resources. Some of these components include holding business coaching courses with the cooperation of social entrepreneurs, practical training with the support of educational institutions, obtaining the patterns of Social Security Organization by entrepreneurs, aligning national and religious values with social entrepreneurship, NGO support for social entrepreneurship and acceptance entrepreneurship as a value in society was more agreed upon by the respondents. In the next step, in order to establish the relationship and determine the sequence between the dimensions and, as a result to present the structural model, the interpretive structural modeling method was used. In this method, based on the opinions of experts and the results from previous stages, the social entrepreneurship model was drawn.