Strategic Model of Empowering and Making Economic Priorities for Medium-sized Businesses in Students Supported by Imam Khomeini Relief Committee

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

• ali shojaeifard

Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship Management, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Economic of medium-sized businesses is one of the potential areas for increasing employment, especially for the vulnerable. This study aimed to identify the main dimensions and components of economic empowerment of clients supported by Imam Khomeini Relief Committee. The research method was survey and the data were collected through reference to existing documents and questionnaires. The sample size is 384 designs based on Cochran model. Research questions have also been inferentially analyzed using the structural equation method. The conceptual model of the research is presented by examining the existing models of empowerment and economic priorities in the field of agriculture and the usual methods in the process of empowerment and employment. The main dimensions of the model include preparation and preparation for project implementation, job creation, job stabilization, self-sufficiency and exit support, all path coefficients are significant and acceptable variance explained and structures are above 0.5. Is. Therefore, the model variables have a predictive capability of over 30%

Keywords

• Economic Empowerment
• Employment
• Medium Business
• Agricultural Economic Development

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