The Requirements of Starting up a Business in Rural Areas of Golestan Province and the Effect of Technical & Vocational Trainings on them

Document Type : علمی

Authors

• Gholamhossein Abdollahzadeh
• Peyman Kolagar
• Mohammad Reza Mahboobi
• Ahmad Abedi Sarvestani

Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources

10.22067/jrrp.v3i6.28417

Abstract

Purpose: This research aimed to identify requirements of starting up a business in rural areas and the effect of technical and vocational training on providing these requirements which carried out as a case study in Golestan province.
Methodology: The research survey method based on a questionnaire was employed. The target population of this research contains 1482 rural trainees of technical and vocational organization in Golestan province during 2009-2011. Using Cochran formula, 225 trainees were selected and cluster sampling method was used.
Findings: The results of prioritizing of effects of technical and vocational trainings on business start-up in rural areas demonstrated that "achieving technical trainings of related business" and "increasing of self-confidence in business" were the most influencing factors. Factor analysis extracted four factors for effects of technical and vocational trainings on rural business start-up which named: "gaining technical and practical skills of business", "crating entrepreneurship ability", "and motivating self-employment" and "public and social skills of business"; that these factors explained 69.355 percent of variance. The results of Logistic Regression analysis showed that education, experience in former job, self-employment intention, gaining technical and practical skills of business, and motivating self-employment have positive effects on probability of students' self-employment.
Limitation/strategies: The difficulty of access to the graduated trainees was one of the main limitations of this study, which is suggested that a comprehensive archive of self-employment trend will be provided.
Practical implications: Initial need assessment of trainees, skills and motivation, creating link between trainees after graduation and finally providing legal and administrative process to start-up own-business is strongly recommended.
Originality/values: Prioritizing needs and requirements of self-employment in rural areas and introducing the effectiveness of technical and vocational trainings on self-employment.

Keywords

• rural entrepreneurship
• technical and vocational trainings
• business start-up
• business requirements
• Golestan province

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