Abstract
Development and advancement of current organizations depends on Corporate Entrepreneurship (CE) and its anticipants considerably. Therefore purpose of conducting this survey is to study effective factors on corporate entrepreneurship (personal characteristics of entrepreneurship, human resource practices, organizational culture and employees' satisfaction). This survey was conducted using descriptive-field methodology. Statistical population included managers and experts of Hexa Consulting Engineers Company (Tehran/Iran) and the sample consisted of forty seven of them. Questionnaire was tool of data collection. Data was collected in cross-sectional form in July-August 2011. Descriptive and inferential (spearman correlation) statistics methods were used for data analysis. According to results, there is a positive significant relationship among all factors (personal characteristics of entrepreneurship, human resource practices, organizational culture and employees' satisfaction) and corporate entrepreneurship. In other words, the proposed variables as effective factors on corporate entrepreneurship were confirmed in conceptual model of survey.
Highlights
Serious attention to entrepreneurs and analyzing their issues in entrepreneurial viewpoint is among success factors of economic firms in the current world (Danka, 2000), as corporate entrepreneurship is a way to recreate economic and organizational capabilities (Samadaghaee, 2000)
Corporate entrepreneurship shows advancement engine of stable organizations, because new products are created, new markets are formed, modern technologies are discovered and new businesses are established through it (Zahra et al, 1999; Shepherd et al, 2008)
Questions related to personal characteristics of entrepreneurship, human resource practices and organizational culture were designed by the researcher and questions of employees' satisfaction were designed by means of nine items used in Antoncic and Antoncic (2011)
Summary
Serious attention to entrepreneurs and analyzing their issues in entrepreneurial viewpoint is among success factors of economic firms in the current world (Danka, 2000), as corporate entrepreneurship is a way to recreate economic and organizational capabilities (Samadaghaee, 2000). Corporate entrepreneurship means applying entrepreneurial behavior in a stable organization (Echols and Neck, 1998). The existing applied studies in literature show positive impact of corporate entrepreneurship on performance of organizations (Kuratko et al, 1990; Zahra, 1993; Lumpkin and Dess, 1996; Zahra et al, 1999). Conducting a survey about effective factors on corporate entrepreneurship has much importance. Some effective factors on corporate entrepreneurship have been studied in previous researches but there is no research that has studied such factors in the framework of a model. The purpose in the present survey is to study effective factors on corporate entrepreneurship more comprehensively than previous researches
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