Assessing Entrepreneurial Capabilities Among Family Business Owners

The main purpose of this study is to assess the entrepreneurial capabilities among family business owners with a background of operating in the international market. The target population consists of all builders and mass builders of the construction industry in Tehran province with internationally active family businesses, from which 70 persons were randomly selected as a sample. The research instrument was a standard questionnaire measuring the personality traits of Iranian entrepreneurs Kordanij et al. (2007) with 95 items on a Likert scale. Calculation of Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the components used in the research questionnaire showed an acceptable level of reliability of the research tool. Data analysis was performed using SPSS26 statistical software. Findings showed that the respondents of this study due to age, as well as work experience in the international market and higher education were at a desirable level of entrepreneurship, especially in the field of internal locus of control, need for achievement, risk-taking propensity and flow notion. On the other hand, the results showed that the level of respondents' enjoyment of the components of challenge, utopism and operationalism were at a lower level than the others. Overall, the results showed that the general level of entrepreneurial capability of 35.4% of the respondents was estimated as in favorable level. These results imply the importance of having entrepreneurial capabilities at the desired level for family business owners, which needs to be considered in the programs of the ministries in charge of business development for providing relevant training.