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Internet Entrepreneurship Education and its Role in Online Business: A Case From Iran

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  • Mehdi Behboudi

    (Department of Business Management, School of Management and Accountancy, Qazvin Branch Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran)

  • Nazanin Jalili

    (Management and Productivity Research Center, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin Branch, Qazvin, Iran)

  • Kobra Najafi

    (Management and Productivity Research Center, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin Branch, Qazvin, Iran)

Abstract

The present paper aims to analyze the online entrepreneurship education program and its role in developing online business, specifically in Iran. Seeking cost effective strategies from governors as well as developing ICT infrastructures makes it imperative to study how Internet-based methods could help to educate entrepreneurs in Iran. Accordingly, the authors evaluated the current situation of the existing programs on the one hand and reviewed various well-known programs all around the world on the other hand. The critical successful factors and the weakness of Iranian current entrepreneurial courses have mentioned and criticized. The authors developed a theoretical framework relating to online entrepreneurship education program with the purpose of training entrepreneurs through the Internet. The paper concludes by stating managerial implications and governments obligations.

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  • Mehdi Behboudi & Nazanin Jalili & Kobra Najafi, 2014. "Internet Entrepreneurship Education and its Role in Online Business: A Case From Iran," International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy (IJIDE), IGI Global, vol. 5(2), pages 37-46, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jide00:v:5:y:2014:i:2:p:37-46
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