Analysis of Personal Factors Influencing Spatial Planning of Entrepreneurship

Abstract

Designing and developing a proper plan for entrepreneurshipin rural areas have turned into an imperative task, which can be defined considering the capabilities, culture, and local norms in each region. The main research instrument was a questionnaire whose validity was achieved by collecting the opinions of experts and scholars through the Delphi method and whose reliability was estimated by Cronbach’s alpha to be 0.66‐0.83 for different sections. The participants were 486 individuals including rural entrepreneurs, local governor of rural district (Dehyars), Islamic Rural Council members. The exploratory factor analysis was employed to factors and determine the contribution of eachfactor in rural planning. Based on the results, the personal factors influencing entrepreneurship planning included 14 variables. After the varimax rotation of the driving factors, they were classified into four factors of pragmatism, ambiguity tolerance, creativity and ideation, and achievement motivation. From the participants’ viewpoint on the personal factors, the factors of risk‐taking, ambiguity tolerance, creation and ideation, and achievement motivation were the first to fourth important factors influencing enrepreneurship planning, respectively.