Reconstructing the Role of Principals in the Schools by Entrepreneurial Tendency

The purpose of the present research was to reconstruct the role of principals in schools that tend to have entrepreneurial structures. Because in any organization, including schools that are intend to entrepreneurial structure, the role of principal is one of the determining and guiding roles.

This study was a qualitative one with a phenomenological approach. For this purpose, ten entrepreneurial experts with practical experience in school systems were purposefully invited based on purposeful sampling and until theoretical saturation. A semi-structured interview was used to collect the data. The content of the interviews was analyzed using the content analysis method.

On the basis of basic coding, 97 components were recognized, and finally, 16 organizing constructs were formulated into 5 global themes as constituent components of the role of administrator in schools with a tendency for entrepreneurial structures. These roles were titled as Entrepreneurial Leadership, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Designer, Balancing between All School Stakeholders, Individualizer of School Schedules, and Network Culture Developer. These global roles have the capacity to reconstruct the role of entrepreneurial school principals. Also, school management focused on entrepreneurial roles is able to increase efficiency and create innovative values.