Antecedents of corporate entrepreneurship

Businesses should strive to identify and nurture internal organisational factors that cultivate a dynamic entrepreneurial culture. This paper scrutinizes the contribution of the internal organisational factors, measured by market orientation, flexibility and job satisfaction, to intrapreneurship, as...

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Published inSouth African journal of business management Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 65 - 78
Main Authors Van Wyk, R, Adonisi, M
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cape Town African Online Scientific Information Systems (AOSIS) 01.09.2012
Association of Professional Management (APM)
South African Bureau for Scientific Publications
AOSIS
Subjects
Corporate culture
Discriminant analysis
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
Flexibility
Job satisfaction
Market orientation
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Summary:Businesses should strive to identify and nurture internal organisational factors that cultivate a dynamic entrepreneurial culture. This paper scrutinizes the contribution of the internal organisational factors, measured by market orientation, flexibility and job satisfaction, to intrapreneurship, as measured by the Corporate Entrepreneurship Assessment Instrument (CEAI). Information from a sample of 333 managers explores the relationships of corporate entrepreneurship with different work variables by means of Product-Moment Correlation, Multiple Regression Analyses and Structural Equation Modelling. Structural Equation Modelling confirms that four of the corporate entrepreneurship factors were predicted reasonably well by means of the market orientation, flexibility and job satisfaction sub-scales. The article attempts to fill the research gap of identifying which market orientation, flexibility and job satisfaction factors play an important role in facilitating corporate entrepreneurial actions.
ISSN:2078-5976
2078-5585
0378-9098
2078-5976
DOI:10.4102/sajbm.v43i3.475