Designing and Validation of Social Entrepreneurship Model for Higher Education in Iran

Abstract

The present study was conducted to design and validate a model for social entrepreneurship of higher education in Iran. This study was conducted using a Mixed Method. In the qualitative part of this study, a questionnaire was designed using the method of Grounded Theory and also interviews with 15 experts were conducted. The designed questionnaire was conducted with 384 students in public universities of Tehran. Purposive sampling method was used in the qualitative part whereas random classified sampling method was applied in the quantitative part. In addition, analysis of Structural Equation Modeling was used in the quantitative part whereas the results of the qualitative part were analyzed through Grounded Theory. The results showed that infrastructural, designers and curriculum planning specialists, student, tenure, lack of entrepreneurship future studies, economic, higher education policies, economic and social consequences, higher education management, cultural, social and curriculum and inefficient quality factors, are the factors of social entrepreneurship in Iran's higher education system, respectively. Therefore, in a general perspective, the phenomenon of the existential agency was identified.

Keywords

• higher education
• grounded theory
• mixed method
• social entrepreneurship