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Year: 2016, Volume: 14(3)

Ghasem Sadeghi,

Masoud Ahmadi,

Maryam Taghvaee Yazdi

Problems and Perspectives in Management, Journal Year: 2016, Volume and Issue: 14(3), P. 317 - 324

Published: Oct. 15, 2016

The main purpose of this study is analyzing the relationship between organizational citizenship behavior and market orientation. This study is an applied research in terms of the purpose based on a descriptive correlational method. The statistical population included all employees of Agricultural Jihad Organization of Mazandaran province consisting of 1923 persons. 391 people (male and female) were selected using random stratified sample. Data were collected through two standard questionnaires: Podsakoff’s (2003) organizational citizenship behavior (24 questions) and Fazel’s (2012) organizational performance (13 questions). Validity of questionnaires was confirmed by experts and reliability of them was confirmed using Cronbach’s coefficient alphabet. …

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Cecile Nieuwenhuizen,

Leon Janse van Rensburg,

Chris Schachtebeck,

Cecile Nieuwenhuizen,

John Davids

Problems and Perspectives in Management, Journal Year: 2016, Volume and Issue: 14(3), P. 528 - 536

Published: Oct. 29, 2016

This study identifies and discovers best practices in entrepreneurship education from highly-ranked universities and business schools globally. The study has been qualitative in nature, utilizing semi-structured interviews with 23 respondents at 12 higher education institutions. The study has made use of non-probability sampling by means of a convenience sampling approach. Data have been analyzed by means of thematic analysis. Results indicate that best practices in entrepreneurship education include little to no specialization at undergraduate level, with a strong preference for generic and widely applicable entrepreneurship modules. Individual entrepreneurship-related modules contain distinct individual themes. These modules are most commonly structured as …

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