A new approach to develop entrepreneurship of the industry using fuzzy DEMATEL


Younos Vakil alroaia, Mohammad Hemati and Mojtaba Javidnia


Today, development of economic activity and employment is known as an effective strategy for economical and social development of the countries. Entrepreneurship in Iran is also as the most executive and practical strategy to exit the economical and social deadlock and problems. However, entrepreneurship development needs identifying and removing existed obstacles and problems. There are a lot of researches about obstacles and restrictions on entrepreneurship but, to the best of our knowledge, there is no research to identify vital factors and degree of their effect on the network of factors.


DOI: j.msl.2012.02.011

Keywords: Entrepreneurship ,Vital factors ,DEMATEL ,Fuzzy method

How to cite this paper:

alroaia, Y., Hemati, M & Javidnia, M. (2012). A new approach to develop entrepreneurship of the industry using fuzzy DEMATEL.Management Science Letters, 2(4), 1279-1288.


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