Background: Organizational entrepreneurship focuses on proactive actions, which may lead to the new productions, new services and/ or new processes. Implementation of organizational entrepreneurship plans has many benefits including organizational cost reduction and the increase of organizational capital assets. Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the organizational entrepreneurship status in view of the managers of Ahvaz University of Medical Sciences. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed on 67 of the managers of Ahvaz University of Medical Sciences. Data were gathered by a 30-item standard questionnaire. Reliability efficient of the questionnaire was 0.77. Ten dimensions of organizational entrepreneurship including innovation, conditions for demonstration of entrepreneurial behavior, detection and discovery of opportunities, level of flexibility, decision-making system, organizational learning, organizational culture, staff training, reward and incentive system and managerial support system for innovative ideas were studied. Finally, the data were analyzed by using the SPSS version 18. Data analyzing was performed by one-way ANOVA and χ² tests. Results: Among the 10 dimensions studies in this study, innovation (with mean score 11.47 ± 2.56) and decision making system (with mean score 11.47 ± 2.65 score) had the highest rank. The dimension of managerial support system for innovative ideas and organizational culture had the lowest ranks, respectively. Overall status of organizational entrepreneurship was desirable (with mean score 104.9 ± 24.4). In addition, the results showed that there was not a significant relationship between organizational entrepreneurship status and demographic and job characteristics of the managers, except educational level (P > 0.05). Conclusions:The status of the organizational entrepreneurship was assessed in view of managers in Ahvaz University of Medical Sciences. The overall evaluation resulted in a desirable scores; however, some dimensions of organizational entrepreneurship such as innovation and decision-making system had better status than other parameters.
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