TY - JOUR ID - 14133 TI - Identifying Factors Affecting Entrepreneurship and Organizational Agility (Case Study: Mashhad University of Medical Sciences) JO - Future of Medical Education Journal JA - FMEJ LA - en SN - 2251-8347 AU - Sadeghpour, Mohsen AU - Cherabin, Moslem AU - Shekari, Gholam Abbas AU - Zendeh del, Ahmad AD - PhD Candidate, Department of Educational Sciences, Neyshabur Branch, Islamic Azad University, Neyshabur, Iran AD - Department of Educational Sciences, Neyshabur Branch, Islamic Azad University, Neyshabur, Iran AD - Department of Management, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran AD - Department of Statistics, Neyshabur Branch, Islamic Azad University, Neyshabur, Iran Y1 - 2019 PY - 2019 VL - 9 IS - 4 SP - 34 EP - 45 KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Agility KW - University of medical sciences KW - Organization DO - 10.22038/fmej.2019.14133 N2 - Background: Today, government agencies, including medical universities, are facing a changing environment that needs to take advantage of new approaches such as entrepreneurship and organizational agility to maintain or enhance competitive advantage. Therefore, this study was designed to identify the factors affecting entrepreneurship and agility of organizations that have a great impact on sustainability in today's changing and competitive environment of organizations. Methods: The present study is a qualitative study that was done in two stages of reviewing literature and expert opinion survey by Delphi method. In the first step, the variables affecting agility and organizational entrepreneurship were extracted by reviewing related literature. The variables extracted were then finalized by Delphi method and after reaching the consensus of experts. Based on the findings of the study, 8 dimensions for organizational agility questionnaire and 6 dimensions for entrepreneurship questionnaire were identified. For organizational agility, 27 components and 39 components for entrepreneurship were obtained. Results: The results showed that there are many different factors affecting entrepreneurship and agility of the organization, including factors affecting organizational agility, flexibility, organizational culture, human capital, organizational agility, change management, information and communication technology. Also, factors affecting entrepreneurship include human factors, entrepreneurship culture, motivational factors, accelerating variables, information technologies, and rehabilitation variables. Conclusion: It seems that, considering the need for current organizations to benefit from the move towards entrepreneurial management and agility, managers will pay particular attention to the effective dimensions of this management style identified in the present study, providing resources, facilities, and equipment needed to achieve these dimensions can help to continually improving the organization. UR - https://fmej.mums.ac.ir/article_14133.html L1 - https://fmej.mums.ac.ir/article_14133_3970aa5f4d3279ccada97d0e310260fd.pdf ER -