RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COMPONENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE AVIATION INDUSTRY

Abstract

The objective of this study was to investigating the relationship between information technology component and organizational entrepreneurship in the aviation industry. The method of this research was descriptive. The statistical population of the study included all employees of the administrative department of Iran Civil Aviation Organization of Tehran province which was 140 employees. Due to the limited size of the population, the whole population was selected as a sample and examined. The present research is descriptive-survey type. The instruments of this study are researcher-made questionnaires of information technology and organizational entrepreneurship questionnaire whose validity and reliability in this study were obtained based on Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.89. In order to analyze the data, Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regressions were used to test the hypotheses and Cronbach's alpha method was used to calculate the reliability coefficients.  Results of testing research hypotheses showed that there is a significant relationship between information technology and the tendency to organizational entrepreneurship. According to results we say that this is a educational research that information technology is one of the tools of entrepreneurship that cannot replace real development, but provides tools that can accelerate development of organization. It is suggested that information technology and entrepreneurship training and retraining classes be held simultaneously in order to develop and based on proper planning for the use of computers in entrepreneurship.