Analysis of Factors Affecting Entrepreneurship Development in Agricultural Cooperatives

The purpose of this cause-cordatia study was to analysis factors influencing entrepreneurship in agricultural cooperatives in Iran. Managers of agricultural cooperatives were surveyed in order to explore their perception about the factors influencing the development of entrepreneurship in agricultural cooperatives. The statistices population consisted of 250 managers of agricultural cooperative in six provinces in Iran. Research instrument was questionnaire that codified base on theories and literature review. Validity of the questionare confirmed by content validity method with a panel of expert’s and its reliability confirmed by implication of pilot test and calculation of Cronbach’s alpha coefficient (α = 0. 86). Data were analyzed applying SPSS and LISREL. Based on the perception of the respondents and ordinal factor analysis، factors were categorized in eight groups، namely psychological/cognitive، education، economical، organizational، financial، personal characteristics، regulatory، and social، ordered by the magnitude of their impact. Result from multiple regression analysis showed that five variables economic، educational، individual، political and psychological factors، as independent variables entered in the regression equation in five steps and totally determined 31. 1% of the variance of number of new jobs created. Also the result of multiple regression showed that four variables، include individual، economic، political and structural factors، as independent variables entered in the regression equation totally expressed 39. 8% of the variance of increase in the stock value.