Abstract
The challenges of poor adjustments and modifications to the exertions of the environment, amidst growing competition and market rivalry, are such that requires a re-assessment of the options available to the organization. One of such is the focus on the internal resources and creativity availed by the members of the organization. This paper investigated the role of intrapreneurship in the actualization of organizational responsiveness in 9 bottle water manufacturing firms in Rivers State, duly registered with the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Rivers and Bayelsa State chapter. The paper was designed as a cross-sectional survey and detailed the use of the structured questionnaire in the generation of data from 36 managers within the manufacturing firms. Hypotheses were tested using the Spearman’s rank order correlation. Results from the test indicate that the dimensions of intrapreneurship, namely: innovativeness, risk-taking and pro-activeness, all have significant and positive relationships with organizational responsiveness. The study based on this evidence affirmed that that the availing of platforms and supportive policies or frameworks that allow for innovative behaviour, risk-taking and pro-activeness within the organization has a strong tendency to enhance outcomes of organizational responsiveness for manufacturing firms in Rivers State, Nigeria.
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