the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between entrepreneurial personality characteristics and small and medium-sized sport enterprises start-up (smses). the methodology of this study was descriptive-correlation. population consisted of small and medium-sized sport enterprises (n=1500) and their owners and/or managers were randomly selected as the sample (n=258). for data colle...

development of modern economy without private sector and high vigilance entrepreneurs is vital to identify opportunities and use of opportunities around the world. in this regard, identifying the influencing factors on emergence and development of entrepreneurship culture can be effective to promote entrepreneurship in our country. for this purpose, the main issue in this study is to identify t...

the purpose of this paper is to improve supply chain relationships in iranian small and medium-sized enterprises (smes) in automotive parts industry. for this reason, an importance-performance analysis (ipa) has been employed to categorized supply chain relationships metrics. also, the questionnaire method is used for gathering information. the paper identified thirteen supply chain relationshi...

Medium-sized and small enterprises play a key role in the process of economic and social development of countries around the world. In our country, the problem of financing difficulties that medium-sized and small enterprises are face with has become the main influence factors, thus blocking the medium-sized and small enterprises further development. To strengthen the study of medium-sized and ...

Large industrial enterprises had innovation rates of 84% compared to 63% of similarly sized service enterprises. In excess of 67% of medium sized industrial enterprises engaged in innovation activity in the period while 58% of service enterprises were innovation active. Small industrial enterprises (ten to forty-nine persons engaged) had an innovation activity rate of 51% compared to 38% of sma...

This study aims to explain and elaborate a new model for the business environmental hostility in small and medium enterprises in the science and technology park in Kermanshah (Iran). The research method is a mixed method. Content analysis was used in the qualitative part, and a confirmatory factor analysis was used in the quantitative section. In the qualitative section for the environmental ho...

The rapid development of information technology enables informationization to become the necessary means for medium-sized and small enterprises to improve their competitive advantages. With efforts for several years, establishment of informationization in medium-sized and small enterprises has achieved some achievements. However, because they started later, together with disadvantages of the en...

the corporate entrepreneurship (ce) of firms and enterprises is the subject of current research in the fields of management and business. however, analyses on this subject in agricultural firms are lacking. the purpose of this research was to study the relationships between corporate entrepreneurship and firm performance in agricultural small and medium-sized enterprises (asmes) in iran. specif...