TY - JOUR T1 - Identifying and Ranking Key Factors in the Success or Failure of Greenhouse Enterprises in Iranshahr Township AU - Valinafs, Abdulaziz AU - Ghazi, Eisa AU - Shardry, Islam AU - Khudestan, Amin JO - International Business Management VL - 10 IS - 6 SP - 999 EP - 1006 PY - 2016 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1993-5250 DO - ibm.2016.999.1006 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ibm.2016.999.1006 KW - Small and medium-sized enterprises KW -entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector KW -greenhouse enterprises KW -Iranshahr KW -papulation AB - The main objective of the present study is to investigate factors affecting the success and failure of greenhouse enterprises in Iranshahr Township. The present study is applied in terms of objective and regarding the subject matter and in terms of methodological classification, it is a descriptive-analytical research based on operational data. The population of the study included all individuals owning greenhouse enterprises in Iranshahr Township whose number was estimated as 86 individuals. To select the sample size, 76 individuals were selected as participants using Cochran formula and by the simple random sampling. To investigate research variables, two researcher-made questionnaires were used. The reliability of the first questionnaire (related to factors affecting the failure of greenhouse enterprises) was 83% and the reliability of the second one (related to factors affecting the success of greenhouse enterprises) was 87%. The data obtained from these questionnaire were analyzed at the level of inferential statistics (Chi-square and Friedman tests). ER -