Explaining the entrepreneurial behaviors in Startup and established businesses success

Subject Areas : Ecosystems

shapur anvari ¹ (PhD student, Entrepreneurship Department, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran.)
mohammad atai ² (Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran (in charge of correspondence))
Habebolah Taherpur Kalantary ³ (3 Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration, Higher Institute of Management and Planning Education and Research, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2023-05-30 Accepted : 2023-08-31 Published : 2023-08-23

Keywords: entrepreneurship, Success, entrepreneurial behavior, Science and Technology Parks, Startups and Established Entrepreneurs,

Abstract :

Entrepreneurial behaviors play a cardinal role in achieving highly radical innovations and absolute competitive advantages by businesses and nations. Reviewing the literature around entrepreneurial behaviors leading success shows there is not a satisfactory separation between factors and behavioral aspects. Using a grounded theory approach, in this article, twenty Startups and Stablished Entrepreneurs seat in the Academic Science and Technology Park interviewed and data analyzed through three phase coding process. Both reliability and validity measures of data gathering tool were at a satisfactory level and this has been confirmed by experts. Results of the analysis interviews show that entrepreneurial behavior, triggered by predicting factors, can be categorized into four distinct groups. These groups include Informational behaviors, Relational and network-building behaviors, Strategic management behaviors and Executive management behaviors. This study also provides the reader with macro and micro-level environmental factors affecting entrepreneurial behaviors and classified the success criteria divided into both objective and subjective criteria.