Relationship between the Organizational Structure and the Entrepreneurial Intention of the Employees with Regard to the Mediating Role of Knowledge Management

This study aims to investigate the relationship between the Organizational Structure and the Entrepreneurial Intention of the Employees with Regard to the Mediating Role of Knowledge Management in metal industries of Kaveh Industrial City of Iran in 2012. The population of the research included 4700 employee involved in metal industries of Kavek Industrial City, among whom 355 subjects were selected as the research sample by using Cochran formula and sampling method of relational stratified random sampling method. After distributing and collecting the questionnaires we applied the Structural Equation Modeling using Smart PLS 2 to analyze the collected data and to test the hypotheses. This analysis was done in two sections: measurement model and structural model. In the first section, technical features of the questionnaire including the reliability, convergent validity and divergent validity that are specific to PLS; and the needed corrections were done. In second section, significance coefficients of the software were used to test our proposed hypotheses. Our results showed that organizational structure has a significant effect on the entrepreneurial intention of the employees. The findings also showed that the variable of knowledge management has a mediating role in the relationship between organizational structure and the entrepreneurial intention of the employees.