Title:
FACTORS AFFECTING ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN RURAL PRODUCTION COOPERATIVES IN ISFAHAN TOWNSHIP

Authors:
Shadi Ghobadi

Abstract:
This study considered the factors affecting on promoting and developing of entrepreneurship in rural production cooperatives in Isfahan for this purpose, descriptive and correlation methods were used. Population included the board of directors and managers of rural production cooperatives (75 members of 15 rural production cooperatives) and all of them were selected as sample group. The research instrument was a questionnaire whose validity was confirmed by the group of experts .Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used for evaluating the reliability o f the questionnaire (0.872).Data were analyzed using SPSS and LISREL version 8.5 software. The findings of the study showed that the average of study population entrepreneurship was 2.585 and most subjects(62.8) were in weak and very weak classes. Also, based on the results of one sample T-test, the level of entrepreneurship development in rural production cooperatives in the study area were much lower than average with a significant 95%.Exploratory factor analysis was used to identify the factors affecting the development of entrepreneurship in rural production cooperatives. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation model was used to investigate the research model's goodness of fit.The results showed that factors affecting the development of entrepreneurship in agricultural production cooperatives are formed of seven distinct factors including social, economic, managerial, marketing, training, psychological and cultural factors