Key Success Factors on Social Entrepreneurship in Iran - Expert's Perspective

Many issues have been raised with the idea of social entrepreneurship. This idea fits with today's conditions and Consistent with other types of entrepreneurship are moving towards the development. Today, every activity of social interest can be named as social entrepreneurship, so, social entrepreneurs can play as change agents and make social and economic progress. Therefore considering this concept and idea according to the social conditions of the country is very essential. According to the conceptual model of the scholar, this study looks for factors and components influencing social entrepreneurship from experts’ point of view and activists in this field. In this study, six factors were selected as affecting factors that include social capital, social awareness, social needs, social virtues, social mission and social commitment.In this study, library research, interviews and questionnaires have been used as research tools. In analyzing the test data’s, including Spearman correlation, Binominal test, KMO index, Bartlett's test and finally, Confirmatory factor analysis (LISREL) software. As regards the information based on the findings five factors that include social virtues, social mission, social awareness, social commitment and social needs have been introduced as influencing factors of social entrepreneurship based on priority.