Designing a Social Entrepreneurship Development Model with a Social Capital Approach (Case Study of Imam Khomeini Relief Committee in Fars Province)

Document Type : Original Article

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Department of Educational Sciences, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to design a model for the development of social entrepreneurship with a social capital approach in the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee in Fars province. The statistical population of the research in the qualitative section included (experts and managers of social entrepreneurship in the field of policy-making) to agree on the Delphi method. The sample size in the qualitative section was determined to be 17 by considering the saturation law. And in a small part of the statistical population, including the staff and organizational managers of the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee in Fars province, there were 1434 people. In the quantitative part, the sample size was determined to be 303 using Cochran's formula. The method of data collection was library method and measurement tool in the qualitative part of the interview was semi-structured and in the quantitative part included a researcher-made questionnaire, the questions of which were taken from the data obtained from the interview. The validity of the present research questionnaire was determined by two methods: face-to-face and content-based. The reliability coefficient was calculated using Cronbach's alpha test of 0.870 percent. In order to analyze the data in the qualitative part of the Delphi technique and in the quantitative part of the structural equation modeling method, SPSS and lisrel software have been used. Findings showed that the elements, components and sub-components of social capital are 75% effective in social entrepreneurship in Imam Khomeini Relief Committee of Fars province.

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