Studying the effect of information technology and social networks on international entrepreneurial business (Case study: nontechnology companies

Current research has studied the effect of information technology and social networks on international entrepreneurs in nanotechnology companies business. This descriptive research in terms of purpose is applicable and in terms of nature and the methodology is a correlation and survey kind, because it studies the relationship between the variables. The statistical population of this research includes the managers and experts of small and medium active companies which are the member of nanotechnology staff. The statistical sample includes 231 persons of managers and experts of studied companies that have been selected and tested by simple random sampling method. The studied variables of this research were measured by using of research tool, standard questionnaires, information technology (researcher-made) and international entrepreneurial questionnaire (international standardized questionnaire of entrepreneurship center of « Darham» University) and social networks questionnaire. In order to determine the validity of these tools, the face validity and content validity were used. In order to analyze the data, the hypotheses were evaluated by using of linear Regression. The results obtained from the research indicate that information technology and social networks have had strong and positive effect on international entrepreneurial business of studied companies. Also there is positive and meaningful relationship between entrepreneurship and international entrepreneurial business.

information technology, social networks, international entrepreneurship, international entrepreneurial small business