Organizational Entrepreneurship and its Impact on the Performance of Governmental Organizations in the City of Mashhad

Abstract

Abstract A new wave of change in societies, new technology and innovation has resulted in corporate responsibility, survival, value and performance to comply with the new requirements. To fulfil their missions and goals, organizations need to be innovative, proactive and in other words practice organizational entrepreneurship. Also it can be said that increasing new competitors, a sense of distrust in traditional management practices in organizations, leaving experts and qualified people pursuing their career as individual entrepreneurs can stimulate organization entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship can occur in products and services, or processes. Hence organizations in order to take appropriate action to overcome environmental challenges need entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. Since the units in the government sector are bureaucratic and conservative they cannot be considered as entrepreneurial. Although the governmental sector has no disagreement with the entrepreneurial type structures, in practice, the dominant culture, bureaucracy and traditional activities prevent organizational entrepreneurship. The present study is an attempt to present the conceptual model of entrepreneurship and its role in enhancing the performance of governmental Organizations in the city of Mashhad. The correlation between two variables of entrepreneurial behavior and entrepreneurial management and its impact on the performance of government organizations in Mashhad was also studied with the emphasis on the importance of organizational entrepreneurship in these organizations. The study was conducted on 70 government organizations in Mashhad. For analysis and the statistical tests for the study of relationships between variables, the SPSS and Smart PLS software were used. The main results of this study indicate that there is not entrepreneurial orientation and entrepreneurial Management in government organizations in Mashhad; hence, in these organizations, there is no organizational entrepreneurship.