Rural Development
naser seifollahi; golsum akbari arbatan
Abstract
The modern world has already taken the first step towards a fundamental technological reality, the digital economy. The modern global labor market is a complex multi-component and dynamic system that is constantly influenced by information technology and requires changes in the content of the work process, ...
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The modern world has already taken the first step towards a fundamental technological reality, the digital economy. The modern global labor market is a complex multi-component and dynamic system that is constantly influenced by information technology and requires changes in the content of the work process, its organization, the structure of employment and social and labor relations. This article examines the role of the digital economy on women's home businesses. In this article, "working women" are considered as an integral part of the labor market and a determining factor in the innovative development of the digital economy. Previous studies show that women's participation in domestic work is largely influenced by technological developments. This research challenges this issue by relying on the perspective of digital transformation, paying serious attention to the contribution of women in the continuation of rural jobs. Women have been the drivers of economic growth in the world, but most of the existing entrepreneurship researches have studied male entrepreneurs, so that there has been less focus on women. Most women entrepreneurs start their own businesses for economic progress or to gain more independence, which has affected the growth of female entrepreneurs in home businesses as one of the largest types of businesses in the global economy.
Considering the importance of this issue, it is important to identify the opportunities and challenges of the digital economy in rural women's home businesses. We highlight key challenges and opportunities as well as policy recommendations to support women's home-based businesses in rural areas. With this aim, this research has compiled and validated a conceptual framework using the qualitative method of thematic and thematic analysis (theme analysis) in a descriptive way and through in-depth semi-structured interviews. The statistical population includes experts, experts, and business owners of rural women, among whom 12 people were selected and participated in this research through purposive sampling. The number of samples follows the law of saturation. Considering that the reliability level is more than 60%, the reliability of coding was confirmed and it can be claimed that the reliability level of the current interview analysis is appropriate. In order to ensure the validity of the research, it was tried to be a statistical sample of people who have the necessary knowledge and expertise in the context of the research, as well as to minimize the intervention of researchers in the research, and also to obtain the coding results from a number of experts, their reference and final approval regarding the extractive framework
Based on the results of the analysis technique, the challenges and opportunities of the digital economy in rural businesses, which include two comprehensive and central themes, 10 organizing themes and 52 basic themes. The opportunities facing the digital economy in rural businesses with 5 organizing themes and 21 basic concepts that include things such as job value creation, convergence of technology with economic goals, global customer orientation, networking capability, business resilience, which transform capability into potential value. They provide in the implementation of digital economy.
The theme of challenges and factors affecting the digital economy in rural businesses refers to the challenges and problems and factors affecting the implementation of digital technologies. The conceptual categories related to the challenges theme include 5 organizing themes and 31 primary concepts, which are: digital process gaps, creating a black economy for rural businesses, adverse social effects, cultural aspects, technological risks that make the implementation of the digital economy more difficult And finally, in order to develop a digital economy, a model of rural women's home businesses was proposed. that the conceptual framework of the research has been developed based on a survey of experts in this field, and the conclusions, suggestions and limitations of the research have been stated.
The theme of challenges and factors affecting the digital economy in rural businesses refers to the challenges and problems and factors affecting the implementation of digital technologies. The conceptual categories related to the challenges theme include 5 organizing themes and 31 primary concepts, which are: digital process gaps, creating a black economy for rural businesses, adverse social effects, cultural aspects, technological risks that make the implementation of the digital economy more difficult And finally, in order to develop a digital economy, a model of rural women's home businesses was proposed. that the conceptual framework of the research has been developed based on a survey of experts in this field, and the conclusions, suggestions and limitations of the research have been stated.
Women's Studies
Karim Naderi Mahdy; Hajar Vahdat Moadab
Abstract
This study is an applied research using qualitative research method. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of social capital components on the empowerment of rural women engaged in home businesses. The study area of this research is Razan County. The statistical population is the 460 women ...
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This study is an applied research using qualitative research method. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of social capital components on the empowerment of rural women engaged in home businesses. The study area of this research is Razan County. The statistical population is the 460 women engaged in home businesses. We have selected 266 women through stratified sampling as the sample group. In addition to a deep documentary survey, the necessary data and information were collected from the field using a structured questionnaire. The validity of the study instrument was confirmed by a panel of relevant experts and its reliability was determined by Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The reliability in all parts of the questionnaire was estimated 0.85. We used Lisrel and SPSS20 software to analyze the data collected. The results of cluster analysis indicated that 63.25% were poor in terms of capacity and 21 percent were relatively strong, while only 14.84 percent of the sample was quite formidable. Based on the results of diagnostic analysis, it can be said that the most important factors distinguishing these groups are as follows: ensuring community participation, social trust and social cohesion.
economics
Ahmad Yaghoubi Farani; Hajar Vahdat Moaddab; Somayeh Latifi
Abstract
Home business is one of the best fields of women's economic activity and considered as an important strategy for job creation, particularly for rural women. Nonetheless many barriers avoid addressing rural women to these businesses. The main purpose of this study was to analyze the most important barriers ...
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Home business is one of the best fields of women's economic activity and considered as an important strategy for job creation, particularly for rural women. Nonetheless many barriers avoid addressing rural women to these businesses. The main purpose of this study was to analyze the most important barriers for trends of rural women and girls to home businesses. The statistical population of this study was rural women that are over 18 years in Sardrod district in Razan county, Hamedan province. 187 people were studied randomly according to Cochran formula. The most important data collection tool was a questionnaire that its validity was confirmed by panel of experts and Its reliability was tested by Cronbach's alpha coefficient. According to results of factor analysis, barriers to rural women trend to establish home businesses were classified in six factors that were: social and cultural, infrastructure and finance, personality, support, domestic and training. Social and cultural factors as the most important factor was introduced.
