Analysis of the Process of Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Development in Khuzestan Province

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

1 Associate Professor Department of sociology Economy and Social Sciences Faculty, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz

2 Assistant Professor Department of sociology Economy and Social Sciences Faculty, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz

3 Phd Student of Sociology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz

Abstract

Introduction: The use of the term entrepreneurial ecosystem has replaced other concepts such as entrepreneurial environment. It also highlights the mechanisms, institutions, networks and cultures that support entrepreneurs. Ecosystems are a set of centralized cultural perspectives, social networks, financial support, academic institutions, and active economic policies that create a risky environment to support entrepreneurship and have recently gained attention in the entrepreneurship field. In fact, entrepreneurship in the three main dimensions of the innovation system, which include the entrepreneur (including, behavior, competencies and patterns of mentality as well as personal) results and consequences of entrepreneurial activity), entrepreneurial process (including activities related to digitization in management processes Organizational and developments within it are strategic and operational activities and digital deployment. and ecosystems as an approach to understanding the entrepreneurial context at the macro level of an organizational community. Thus, the phenomenon of entrepreneurship is a desirable social behavior that can be not only the product of social creativity, but the result of a constructive interaction of individuals in the context of society. This qualitative study was conducted to understand the dimensions and aspects of entrepreneurial ecosystem development in Khuzestan province. The method used in this research is the theory of data basis.
Method: The data of this study were collected and analyzed through in-depth interviews and purposive theoretical sampling with 37 experts in the field of entrepreneurship, managers of knowledge-based enterprises and professors of economics, management and sociology in Khuzestan province. The five stages of open coding, concept recognition, concept development in terms of feature dimensions, data analysis for context, and introduction of the process into category analysis and integration were used.
Findings: The resulting model includes three dimensions of conditions, action interactions, and consequences. The conditions dimension includes bureaucratic structure, enabling and enabling actions, performance of relevant institutions, and weaknesses in law formulation and implementation. The localization approach, the implementation of training, the encouragement of provincial actors to work in groups, the production leap, the participation of entrepreneurs and knowledge-based enterprises in decisions related to entrepreneurship, youth and the respect for professional discretion, strengthening organizational responsibility In terms of entrepreneurship, the “consequences” include reducing the rate of out-of-province migration, improving indicators of psychological empowerment of actors, sustainable economic development, public safety, spreading entrepreneurial culture, reducing social harm, human, social and economic development. A core category called "multi-level support” was formed.
Conclusion: Entrepreneurial policies to promote entrepreneurial activities, create a favorable entrepreneurial atmosphere and culture, encourage people to start a business and provide the necessary information about the entrepreneurial process and improve the required skills, create non-financial reinforcers such as networks, support services, education, support in the early stages and during the critical years of business creation in a forward-looking process.

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