Analysis of factors affecting the development of entrepreneurship in the oil industry

Many large organizations today use entrepreneurship as a way to gain a long-term competitive advantage. The importance of entrepreneurship in different industries and areas is not the same for governments and some parent industries such as the oil industry have a special place, so the purpose of this study was to analyze the factors affecting the development of entrepreneurship in the oil industry. This research was applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-survey in terms of implementation method, which was performed by mixed exploratory method. In the qualitative stage, the research team consisted of 28 university experts who were selected by judgment and snowball method. In the quantitative stage of the statistical population, all oil industry experts were 3710 people. The sample size according to Krejcie and Morgan table was 348 people and simple random sampling method was used. The Delphi method has been used to identify the factors and the structural equations method with the Smart Payals software has been used to analyze the relationships of the variables. The results showed that the effective factors on entrepreneurship development include 27 components in the form of six dimensions (environmental-institutional, blue ocean strategy, opportunity, human factors, organizational factors, managerial factors). Also, the analysis of structural equations showed that environmental-institutional (0.386), blue ocean strategy (0.423), opportunity (0.342), human factors (0.318), organizational factors (0.370), managerial factors ( 0.455) have a positive and significant effect on the development of entrepreneurship in the oil industry. Finally, it can be said that the entry of entrepreneurship into this industry can save the oil industry from the current inefficiency and lead to solving problems such as oil equipment and oil sales.