The Axial Value Components of the Entrepreneurship Policy-Making Framework in the Books of Mizanal-Hikmah and Al-Hayat

This article aimed to identify themes in available sources of Islamic value system in order to design a framework on the basis of ontological and anthropologicalfundamentals of Islam to develop an entrepreneurship policy-making framework in Iran. Thematic analysis method and MAXQDA software were used to identify the axial value components of the entrepreneurship policy-making framework in the books of Mizan al-Hikmah and Al-Hayat. The value components of entrepreneurship policy-making framework in the books of Mizan al-Hikmah and Al-Hayat comprised of twenty themes, some of which were as follows: belief in afterlife, necessity of creating value for oneself and others whether in need or not, earning and spending money in religiously legitimate (halal) ways, prohibition of monopoly, role of government in value-creation, attention to needs and their satisfaction in production and consumption, prohibition of acquisitiveness, justice, land ownership belongs to God, prophet and people. The said themes formed the network of themes for value components of entrepreneurship policy-making framework. It is possible that the themes are misinterpreted in the thematic analysis in a qualitative research and this research was no exception. Misinterpretation of themes of a value system reduces the credibility of analyses done during the research. Therefore, the researchers attempted to avoid misinterpretation to the most possible extent. This research will increase the understanding and theoreticalwisdom of policy-makers about the appeal and effectiveness of the Islamic texts. This article helps the policy-making actors (National Consultative Assembly, Expediency Discernment Counsel, etc.) to design an Islamic-Iranian model for progressand formulate and implement the entrepreneurship policies and conduct policy research on the basis of Islamic texts.