Zahra Arasti

• Associate Professor
• Faculty Member at University of Tehran

1. Background: In contrast to success, failure and its aftermaths have always received less attention in the entrepreneurship literature. In addition to social and psychological challenges for entrepreneurs, failure can also bring positive outcomes for them. These social and psychological processes after failure and their interaction with each othe...

Recently, women entrepreneurship has become of particular interest to corporate social responsibility (CSR) scholarship, however, little is known about the impact of crises on women’s business activities and how they adapt to the disruptions and new market realities caused by a crisis. To design CSR initiatives that genuinely cater to the needs of...

Women entrepreneurs have to deal with the gendered impact of crisis on their business activities. Regardless, they successfully adapt to the disruptions and new market realities caused by crisis. Given that resilience explains how individuals maintain functioning or even thrive despite challenges, it becomes crucial to understand women entrepreneur...

Considering the variety of approaches, levels of analysis, and focus points in business failure research, this bibliometric paper aims to build a knowledge map for business failure and entrepreneurial failure studies (published between 2016 and 2021) to identify related key concepts, and to develop a conceptual framework for them. In terms of metho...

Abstract: Poverty is an ever-increasing economic problem and a number of theorists have introduced entrepreneurship as a solution to poverty. However, a small number of studies have theorised, modelled, or analysed entrepreneurship’s contribution to poverty alleviation. In view of that, this study aimed to systematically review previous research on...

Poverty is an ever-increasing economic problem and a number of theorists have introduced entrepreneurship as a solution to poverty. However, a small number of studies have theorised, modelled, or analysedentrepreneurship’s contribution to poverty alleviation. In view of that, this study aimed to systematically review previous research on poverty-re...

Abstract In spite of paying much attention to social entrepreneurship in academia, such is not the case in social entrepreneurship organizations. Although to fulfill economic and social missions, managers are required to possess economic and social competencies, only few studies investigated this important subject. The present study aims to identif...

By the advent of support mechanisms and due to their significant role in augmenting the failure rate of startups, today we are witnessing the exponential growth of startup accelerators around the Globe. But, unfortunately, the main approach of these accelerators is focused on economical and not social ideas. While a great number of social startups...

Despite its long history, social entrepreneurship research and education are not old topics in Iran. In fact, the history mainly goes back to the establishment of the Faculty of Entrepreneurship in the University of Tehran. On the one hand, more generally, the roadmap of research on social entrepreneurship still remains controversial, and fragmente...

Entrepreneurship education has been suggested as to be effective in developing entrepreneurship and consequently improving the socio‐economic growth of both developed and developing countries. Scholars highly believe that entrepreneurship education creates the positive attitude towards a new business creation in students and childhood is the key ti...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the growth barriers of women’s home-based businesses (HBBs) in Iran. Design/methodology/approach The qualitative approach was used by 22 in-depth interviews with Iranian female HBBs owners/mangers. Findings Business growth barriers of women were categorized in a multi-level framework of individual...

Women account for half of the population in Iran, but in the last five years, the number of employed women has dropped by 14.2%, resulting in total women’s unemployment rate of 19.8%. According to the 2015 World Economic Forum report, Iran is among the countries with a high gender gap in economy ranking 141 in terms of women’s economic participatio...

Despite the importance of social startups, their evolution is rarely investigated. Thus, in this manuscript, the emergence of ICT-based social start-ups is studied using a multiple case study research method. To do so, five social start-ups are selected using a combination of purposive and convenience sampling and studied in detail, based on Lanter...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the growth motivations of women owning and managing home-based businesses (HBBs) in Iran. Design/methodology/approach – The qualitative approach was used by 20 in-depth interviews with Iranian female HBBs owners/mangers. Findings – The business growth motivations of women owning and managing HBBs w...

In under-developing societies and even developed economies, home-based enterprises have been used as a device for economical growth and solving the problem of unemployment particularly for women. The role of these kinds of businesses in national and regional development causes government's attention to this subject and establishing special supporti...

Small and medium Enterprises (SMEs) play a key role to innovation, employment, and competitive advantage. One of the requirements for growth, creativity as well as entrepreneurship in societies is to study their failure process. The purpose of this survey study was to investigate factors which affect business failure from successful versus unsucces...

Abstract Entrepreneurs require a variety of skills in order to manage an enterprise successfully. Aiming to explain the role of managerial skills of entrepreneurship in business success, this research studies the founders of the educational institutes of Kashan .This is a quantitative study and uses structural equation modeling method to analyze...

Development of social entrepreneurship has led to numerous changes in societies where policies are adopted to foster social entrepreneurship. This is a qualitative study on a sample of Iranian social entrepreneurs to identify the indicators of evaluation for social entrepreneurship development regulatory policies. Fourteen interviews have been anal...

Entrepreneurs require a variety of skills in order to manage an enterprise successfully. Aiming to explain the role of managerial skills of entrepreneurship in business success, this research studies the founders of the educational institutes of Kashan .This is a quantitative study and uses structural equation modeling method to analyze the conclud...

UNESCO Journal of Entrepreneurship, Tehran IRAN 2012

The entrepreneurial intention has been considered as the key element to understand the new-firm creation process. Environment is an important element in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intention is affected by environmental events. In fact, environment could be either a facilitator or an impediment to entrepreneurial intention in a society. In...

Despite the impressive growth in the number of firms run by women entrepreneurs, most of these businesses continue to remain small and women-owned firms have not grown as fast as male entrepreneurs. There are many reasons that may help explain the growth limitations in women-owned firms. Among all, growth orientation is an important factor. A commo...

Despite the impressive growth in the number of firms run by women entrepreneurs, most of these businesses continue to remain small and women-owned firms have not grown as fast as male entrepreneurs. There are many reasons that may help explain the growth limitations in women-owned firms. Amongall, growth orientation is an important factor. A common...

The majority of Entrepreneurship studies have focused on Business success while little information regarding Business failure exists. However our knowledge of entrepreneurship is not complete without recognition of the business failure. Also, more researches in this field have been done in developed countries and it is limited studies in those coun...

As stated in numerous studies, entrepreneurship education is becoming more and more important everywhere in the world and research in entrepreneurship are growing and getting legitimacy in the scientific communities, however a few scholars have focused on the subfield of entrepreneurship education. Although the key to a successful entrepreneurship...

Business discontinuation is an important feature of dynamic economies, and entries and exits of businesses are closely connected. A majority of entrepreneurship literature have focused on successful ventures, therefore, little is known about why ventures fail. Previous studies showed significant inter-country differences in SME failure rates, while...

Entrepreneurship is considered to be an important driver for economic growth. Entrepreneurial intention is, based on the literature, suggested to be a predictor of future entrepreneurial behaviour. Entrepreneurial intention is influenced by several factors including entrepreneurial characteristics. Several studies have examined the relationship bet...

research on women entrepreneurship date in 70. It has progressed in developed countries for more than 30 years but it rest in the first phase in developing countries. In spite of different socio cultural structures in developed countries and developing countries, it is necessary to study these different contexts in favor of creation of business by...

Entrepreneurship is a newly developed topic in Iran. The main purpose of the current empirical study is to compare unsuccessful men and women with the help of a questionnaire implemented face to face on a sample of 62 failed business-owners managers in Iran. The results point out the similarities and differences in characteristics of failed-busines...