Designing the Thematic Network of Individual Factors Influencing on Organizational Entrepreneurial Behaviors with Opportunity Recognition Approach

Abstract

Today, in the fourth wave of the industrial revolution and the rapidly changing world, identifying, attracting and nurturing people with special characteristics in order to opportunities recognition and as corporate entrepreneurs in various fields and levels, plays an important role for success in domestic and foreign arenas. Also, various individual factors influence on opportunities recognition that ultimately lead to entrepreneurial behavior in existing organizations; The purpose of this research is to recognize and achieve a better understanding of these factors related to organizational entrepreneurial behaviors with an opportunity recognition approach. In this research, at first, by using documentary studies and then with semi-structured interviews with selected experts and taking notes from them by qualitative method of theme analysis by extracting and categorizing themes to achieve theoretical saturation, are accomplished. The research objective is developmental and applied type which was done by field method. The statistical population consists of selected entrepreneurs of Alborz province. The qualitative section also includes the province's entrepreneurship experts and academic experts who, by purposeful sampling method and by conducting 14 individual interviews, after analyzing the data, 69 initial codes in the form of 9 themes were formed. The main themes include personality, individual and organizational risk, organizational learning & knowledge, social, critical and interactive, organizational motivation and expectations, organizational perceptions, cognition and creativity and innovation that in order to observe holism in presenting the model, the validity of all factors and indicators was confirmed by the method of calculating the two indices of content validity ratio and content validity index.