© 2009, INSInet Publication Factors Influencing the Entrepreneurship in Iran's Agricultural Cooperatives

Abstract: Managers of agricultural cooperatives were surveyed in order to explore their perception about the factors influencing the development of entrepreneurship in agricultural cooperatives in Iran. The methodology used in this study involved a combination of descriptive and quantitative research. The total population was 250 managers of agricultural cooperative in six provinces in Iran. Based on the perception of the respondents and ordinal factor analysis, the factors were categorized into eigh