نقش مدیریت مشارکتی در کارآفرینی سازمانی تعاونی‌های کشاورزی (مطالعه موردی: شهرستان ایلام)

The role of participatory management in organizational entrepreneurship of agricultural cooperatives was studied in Ilam Township. The study was an applied study in terms of objective and a survey study in terms of data collection method. The statistical population was composed of all members of agricultural cooperatives in Ilam Township who totaled 1960 people, out of which 320 people were randomly sampled by Morgan and Krejcie&rsquo;s table. Data collection tool was a self-designed questionnaire including questions about different facets of participatory management and organizational entrepreneurship. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by a panel of experts composed of faculty members of Agriculture Extension and Management Group of Islamic Azad University of Ilam. Its reliability was estimated to be (0.77<a<0.85) by Cronbach&rsquo;s alpha. It was revealed that all four independent variables (people&rsquo;s participation in goal-setting, decision-making, problem-solving, and organization development) were positively and significantly related to the dependent variable of organizational entrepreneurship. According to the results of regression analysis, these four variables accounted for 52% of the variance of organizational entrepreneurship in agricultural cooperatives in Ilam Township.