(Identify the Factors Which Are Affecting to Exploit the International Entrepereuniral Opportunities in Energy Supply Businesses (Case of Study: National Iranian Gas Company
Subject Areas :amirhooshang karami 1 , Seyed Mojtaba Sajjadi 2 , Seyedreza Hejazi 3 , asgar khademvatani 4
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2 - University of Tehran
3 - University of Tehran
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Abstract :
International situation of Iran for providing energy sources to other countries, particularly Gas, it requires to pay serious attention for promoting the export supply efficiency of Gas products, and identifying factors which are affecting to exploit the international opportunities for such companies regarding entrepreneurial approach. In this research, we try to find out these factors thru experiences and knowledge of the experts in the international Gas market. This research is qualitative and has been developed by using content analysis technique. The data was collected through open and semi-structured interviews by 15 business owners, top managers and experts of Iranian Liquefied Petroleum (LPG) export companies, which were selected by Snowball sampling method, and analyzed by content analysis encoding. According to results, the effective factors of international entrepreneurial opportunities can be categorized in four main directions: international entrepreneurial attitude, international entrepreneurial innovation and creativity, international entrepreneurial competitive distinction, and international entrepreneurial networking. Each of these four classified factors includes their own categories and subcategories which are addressed in this study.
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