An investigation into the Factors influencing corporate entrepreneurship in provincial boards of directors of Iranian Nursing Organization

Subject Areas : مدیریت

Mohammad Ataei ¹ (استادیار، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد قزوین، گروه مدیریت، قزوین، ایران)
Katayon Por Mahdi ² (استادیار، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد تهران جنوب، گروه مدیریت، تهران، ایران)
Ali Ahmadi ³ (کارشناس ارشد، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد قزوین، گروه مدیریت، قزوین، ایران (عهده دار مکاتبات))

Received: 2014-02-07 Accepted : 2014-07-09 Published : 2015-02-20

Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Corporate Entrepreneurship, Iranian Nursing Organization,

Abstract :

The phenomenon of the field of health services only entrepreneurship entered lately and it still has not been able to achievedstatus it deserves corporate. This study aimed to investigate the factors influencing corporate entrepreneurship in provincialboards nursing organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the year 2012.Factors examined were organizationalstructure, research and development system, leadership style, organizational culture, staff characteristics and, organizationalstrategy. This is descriptive and a sample, of 270 members of the Board of Directors of 30 provinces. The informationgathering tool was the questionnaire. Data management and analysis was performed using Spss 18 (2010).The results ofcorrelation analysis showed a significant relationship between corporate entrepreneurship the six factors and also, theresults of stepwise multiple regression showed that in spite of the significant relationship between organizationalstructure, research and development system, staff characteristics and organizational culture on the one hand and corporateentrepreneurship, on the other these indices are not among the factors affecting corporate entrepreneurship. Rather, leadershipstyles and organizational strategy were found to be effective factors. Finally, the contributing factors were ranked,with the organizational strategy gaining the highest average rating.