A Systematic Review of Effective Individual Factors on Accelerators' Performance

Document Type : Management & Entrepreneurship

Authors

1 PhD Student , Islamic Azad University of Chaloos. Chaloos, Iran

2 Professor, Management department,, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran

3 Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration, Islamic Azad University of Chaloos, Iran

4 Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Islamic Azad University of Chaloos, Chaloos, Iran

Abstract

Human resources are the key elements to improve organizational performance. Among other aspects, in particular, this factor plays an important role in accelerating business agility in organizations. This study is aimed to investigate effective individual factors on the performance of accelerators. Due to research that, a Systematic Review has been implied as to the method, and pertaining this technique, coordinate and deep surfing has been done on the literature; so that, relevant qualitative and quantitative research works have been integrated together. The final examined results of this study are based on the finding of 35 papers. 39 open codes as the sum of the components of individual capabilities are extracted and from this, five main core codes are detected as demographic characteristics, psychological characteristics, job recruitment merits, personality dimensions, and Individual dynamics factors. Literature surfing has been done with more accentuation about psychological characteristics more than the other ones. As a result, it has been suggested that in order to improve the performance of accelerators, a keen eye must be kept on these three individual variables.

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