Designing the competency model of entrepreneurial human resources with a mixed approach in the Azad Universities of Tehran Province

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1 PhD student of Educational Management, Department of Educational Sciences, Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen, Iran

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad Universitiy, Roudehen, Iran

10.22080/eps.2026.30461.2383

Abstract

Aim:  With the spread of new technologies, digital transformation, and its various consequences, the need to pay attention to the competencies of entrepreneurial human resources has been raised.  The model of entrepreneurial human resources competencies with a mixed approach in the free universities of Tehran province
Methodology: The mixed qualitative research is exploratory and survey and 12 participants in the qualitative part were all managers and employees of the free universities of Tehran province 370. The research tools were semi-structured interviews and a researcher-made questionnaire. Using MAXQDA software, SPSS 16 and Smart PLS software.
Results: The results showed that the 13-component model includes technical, managerial, individual, entrepreneurial spirit, environmental, consulting and training
Conclusion and suggestions: 3 factors, with high priority, include the environmental domain - the component of environmental and equipment knowledge, the managerial domain - the component of human resource management, and the individual domain - the component of entrepreneurial spirit. Holding entrepreneurial training courses to improve the scientific and educational level of colleagues, creating a favorable environment and the necessary opportunity for employees and managers to have the characteristics of creativity, innovation as entrepreneurial potential, and becoming familiar with the skills of environmental analysis to recognize entrepreneurial opportunities.
Innovation and originality: This article provides a new approach in the field of a suitable model for finding entrepreneurial human resources at Islamic Azad Universitythat informal networks act as a compensatory response to bureaucratic failure, rather than a continuation of formal structural frameworks

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  • Receive Date: 12 November 2025
  • Revise Date: 13 January 2026
  • Accept Date: 28 April 2026

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