Developing Entrepreneurial Government and Promoting Organizational Capacities in the Public Sector: The Entrepreneurial Government Boost in the Public Sector of Sistan and Balouchestan in Focus

In recent decades, the issue of entrepreneurship has attracted a lot of attention in the public sector, creating a new approach to government management called entrepreneurial government which has been raised to address the chronic problems of administrative and government services. Hence, there is a need to study and identify the drivers that affect this approach. Accordingly, the present study aims to investigate the drivers for developing entrepreneurial government in the country. To this end, after defining the subject and conducting initial exploratory and library studies, the relevant factors and components were considered by experts using the Delphi method and a researcher-made questionnaire. Having revised the factors and their components qualitatively and quantitatively based on related statistical methods, the experts reached a consensus on the balance among the model, its components, and combination of factors. The study sample in this section included 33 academic experts and professionals familiar with the subject who were recruited through non-probability, judgmental sampling. Then, in order to test the designed model, a researcher-made questionnaire was distributed among 335 managers and experts of the selected public sector organizations in Sistan and Balouchestan province who were recruited through random cluster sampling. Finally, PLS 3 was performed to analyze the data. The results showed that three categories of structural, content and contextual drivers are effective on the development of entrepreneurial government in the country, from among which content factors with an impact factor of 43.6 have the greatest impact on the development of entrepreneurial government.