Reconstructing the Meaning of the Entrepreneurship as Creating Value and Gaining Social Benefit: A Qualitative Research from the Perspective of NGOs Managers

Document Type : Research Article

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1 faculty member of Urmia university

2 Urmia University

3 Imam Khomeini International University (IKIU)

10.22084/csr.2024.28570.2251

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Today, one of the concepts of interest in the field of economic sociology is the concept of entrepreneurship. From the point of view of social scientists, entrepreneurship is a process that is located in a changing network of social relations, and these social relations can regulate the entrepreneur's relationship with resources and opportunities. The purpose of this research is to qualitatively study the meaning of the structure of entrepreneurship from the perspective of NGOs managers.The research method is qualitative content analysis, and in-depth interviews were conducted with 14 managers of active and licensed sports clubs from the General Directorate of Sports and Youth of West Azarbaijan Province. NGOs managers have been selected using the purposeful sampling method and taking into account the rule of saturation and maximum diversity. The findings obtained from examining the content of in-depth interviews led to the identification of 114 primary concepts. These basic concepts were categorized into 16 subcategories. The obtained sub-categories include the optimal use of one's own and others' capacities in creating the examination and text of the interviews finally led to the identification of 6 main categories including 1) social benefit, 2) value creation, 3) social change, 4) innovation and commercialization, 5) economic independence and 6) empowerment. The obtained findings show that the NGOs managers considered entrepreneurship as gaining social benefit and they paid attention to non-economic benefits in entrepreneurship. Also, NGOs managers considered entrepreneurship not as earning economic income but as creating value in society.

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Two Quarterly Journal of Contemporary Sociological Research

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 31 August 2024

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