Analyze of Rural Cooperatives Managers’ Entrepreneurial Spirit in Guilan Province

The main purpose of this study was to analyze the entrepreneurial spirit of the cooperative managers of Guilan province. This research was designed as a descriptive study. Statistic population contained all managers and board members of 170 rural cooperatives in Guilan province (N=1020). The samples was determined according to the Table developed by Bartlett et al. (2001) which included 173 members that were selected by using multi-stage cluster sampling method. A self-made questionnaire was used. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by a panel of experts and the reliability was approved by calculating the Cronbach’s alpha which has been 0.75. Descriptive statistics (mean score, standard deviation and frequency counts) and inferential statistics (Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), t-test  and correlation coefficient) were used for analyzing data according to objectives by using SPSS software. Based on the research results, 53 percent of respondents had good and excellent entrepreneurial spirit. The result of F-test and t-test indicated personal characteristics such as gender, tendency to attend training courses, work experience and managing experience had a significant effect on entrepreneurial spirit.