An Investigation of the Influence of Organizational Factors on Intrapreneurship Development in Iranian Agricultural Extension Organization (IAEO)

This research is basically intended to focus on identifying the effective organizational factors on intrapreneurship development in Iranian Agricultural Extension Organization (IAEO). A descriptive-correlational research was implemented to conduct the study. Statistical population was comprised of all IAEO agricultural extension experts. To draw samples, one province out of each regional category of the country was randomly selected and 250 out of 1145 extension specialists were (also randomly) selected from the six selected provinces as based on Cochran's methodology. A well constructed questionnaire comprised of two parts, first: 40 questions to assess the intrapreneurship development (Morris & Kuratko, 2002), and second: 69 questions dealing with organizational factors of direct role in intrapreneurship development was established. Validity of the questionnaire was analyzed, and the reliability coefficient calculated for the questionnaire, using Cronbach's alpha of ?=0.93 for the first and ?=0.906 for the second part). SPSSWin15 was utilized to process the data. Applying Sign Rank Test indicated that the status of the organizational factors was lower than the standard one and below the expected line. In other words, these factors were not intrapreneurial. Applying correlational analyses revealed that intrapreneurship development had a positively significant relationship with organizational factors (P=0.01). Also multivariable regression revealed that 56% of variance in intrapreneurship development was determined by: leadership style, organizational strategy, organizational control system and organizational culture. The remaining variance comes from other variables and organizational factors that have not been investigated in this research. Results finally showed that an organization with the appropriate demanding factors would be more successful in human resource management and as well can better stimulate intrapreneurship development