Abstract
Corporate entrepreneurship brings to organizations a new working philosophy, in which the individual ability of each employee can be more effectively developed. Corporations that adopt an intrapreneurial culture will be effective in their market, with intrapreneurs generating innovations and competitive advantages. In this context, this study seeks to characterize intrapreneurial behavior among employees of two universities of Santa Catarina, Brazil, linking it to five organizational factors: managerial support, freedom in the workplace, available time, uncertainty in tasks, and rewards. It also seeks to measure organizational identity to determine if this variable is a mediator in the relationship between the factors and intrapreneurial behavior. Analysis of the data involved the use of Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Structural Equations Modeling (SEM), seeking to evaluate the relationships proposed between the organizational factors. The results shown that the factors are positively related with intrapreneurial behavior. In regard to the relationship between the factors and organizational identity, the strongest relationship was found with managerial support, followed by freedom in the workplace. The other factors showed a poorer relationship in the coefficients. Finally, the hypothesis that organizational identity is a mediator between organizational factors and intrapreneurial behavior was not supported. The theme in question is very important for providing information and support that can help managers in the strategic decision-making process, as well as increasing knowledge of practices of corporate entrepreneurialism.
Highlights
Organizations have become increasingly concerned with intrapreneurship as a competitive strategy (STEVENSON & JARILLO, 1990; KURATKO, IRELAND & HORNSBY, 2001)
In relation to individual behavior within organizations, research has focused on the different personal characteristics (SHABANA, 2010; KRAUSS et al, 2005) and some authors, like Moriano et al (2009), emphasize that this theme is still little studied, while studies that do exist fail to investigate in depth the question of “why” some people develop an intrapreneurial behavior within the organization, while others do not
Once we can find out some important relations between employeesidentification and intrapreneurial behavior, we argue that becomes possible to better managing corporations such as universities
Summary
Organizations have become increasingly concerned with intrapreneurship as a competitive strategy (STEVENSON & JARILLO, 1990; KURATKO, IRELAND & HORNSBY, 2001). Bertucci (1999), studying higher education institutions (HEI), concludes that the decision-makers, at all levels, appear as intermediaries between the environment and the organization, and their performance is directly influenced by the way in which the managers perceive and understand the university, how they communicate and initiate processes, and the way in which they promote and manage the organizational units Seeking to fill this gap, this study will replicate, in the university organizational environment, the model developed by Moriano et al (2009), focusing on the identification of the members with the organization as a psychosocial variable, that influences the development of intrapreneurial behavior. Based on the results of the research, the HEIs can demonstrate their strengths and weaknesses in relation to the corporate entrepreneur, and based on this, develop activities that stimulate creative and innovative participation, in the search for greater competitiveness in the provision of educational services
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