Master Thesis submitted to the Council of the College of Administration and Economics / University of Karbala as part of a Master’s degree of Science in Business AdministrationBy
Hussain Abd Al-Ameer Alnajar
Supervisor
DR.Alaa Farhan Talib
Abstract This study aimed to test the impact of international standard ISO 26000 as an independent variable of its principles of(accountability, transparency, ethical behavior, respect for the stakeholder interests, respect for the rule of law, respect for international norms of behavior, and respect for human rights) in achieving entrepreneurial orientation as a dependent variable and its dimensions of(innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk taking), such as studying exploratory comparison between Zain and Asia Cell Iraq Telecom. The study tried to answer several questions, including: (What are the international standard ISO 26000?, What level of interest in the companies under study, the principles of International Standard ISO 26000?, what level of interest in the companies under study, the dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation?, and finally is there any effect relationship between international standard ISO 26000 principles and the dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation ?). This study try to achieve several objectives including: 1- Knowing extent of adoption of the companies under study, the concept of international standard ISO 26000 principles and its role in achieving the entrepreneurial orientation. 2- Knowing extent variance of the companies under study in the adoption of the study variables . 3- determine the correlation between international standard ISO 26000 principles and dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation. 4- Determine the impact between the international standard ISO 26000 principles and dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation . In order to achieve the objectives of the study was based scheme supposedly determines the nature of the relationship between the independent variable and the dimensions of the dependent variable, and emerged from his assumptions mainly been tested using a set of statistical tools, have been selected Zain Iraq, Asia Cell for Mobile Communications in Iraq arena for the study and test hypotheses, and questionnaire form was used as the main tool to collect data on the side of the field, has included the study sample was (71) of managers and heads of departments and team leaders. The study presented several conclusions, including: (a correlation and the effect of a statistically significant variable between the international standard ISO 26000 and entrepreneurial orientation of the companies under study) The study came out a set of recommendations comes in the forefront: (There is a necessity to interest adopt and implement the international standard ISO 26000 in in the companies under study trend contributes to the achievement of excellence and innovation of organizations).