A Study on the Relationship between Entrepreneurial Culture and Organizational Entrepreneurship as Viewed by Employees Working at Hormozgan Province Education Department, Iran

Ali Karimi and Mehrnoosh Abedini

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This study attempts to examine the relationship between entrepreneurial culture and organizational entrepreneurship among employees. The statistical population includes a total of 202 employees working at Hormozgan Province Education Department during 2014-2015.The statistical sample was selected through stratified random procedure based on Cochran's formula, the size of which was 132 individuals. This was a descriptive-correlational study, where the data was collected through an entrepreneurial questionnaire from Payne Chatt (1985) and an organizational questionnaire from Alex and Neck (1998). The data was analyzed using statistical measures of Pearson's correlation coefficient, the results of which indicated that there is a significant relationship between entrepreneurship culture and relevant components (i.e. free choice, uncompromising, executive decision, employing unused organizational capacity) and organizational entrepreneurship.

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