Affecting Factors on Active and Premier Rural Cooperatives Manager's Entrepreneurial Intention in Neka Township

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the Affecting Factors on Rural Cooperatives Manager's Entrepreneurial intention in Neka Township. The population of this study included 29 managers of premier and active cooperative in Neka Township, who were selected by Census method. The instrument used in this research, was a questionnaire. The questionnaire validity was confirmed by a panel of experts and also its reliability was gained at 0.901 Cronbach's alpha level. In order to analyze the data, SPSS20 software was used. The results showed that there was a positive relationship between factors; Psychological, Social - cultural, Educational, Organizational and Economic and the entrepreneurship intention and the Psychological, Social - cultural, Educational, Organizational and Economic factors had most importance respectively. The multiple regression showed that Psychological and Organizational factors can estimate 34.9 % of variation of entrepreneurship intention.

Keywords

• entrepreneurial intention
• rural cooperative
• agricultural entrepreneurship
• entrepreneurship development
• neka township