Cultivation of Intrapreneurship: A Framework and Challenges

Abstract

Intrapreneurship has drawn research attention over the past decades considering its crucial role in innovation, organizational performance, and employee career planning. Intrapreneurial research based on various concepts also emerges. In spite of the increasing concern in the field, contributions in the field are fragmented. Particularly, intrapreneurship research is still lacking an integrated framework based on which, enablers and important facilitating mechanisms can be identified to enhance intrapreneurship. To close the above research gap, the study develops a holistic intrapreneurial framework. Specifically, the study first examines intrapreneurship in relation to other prominent concepts (i.e., innovation, entrepreneurship, and sustainability). This study then identifies enablers of intrapreneurship at both individual and organizational level. Notably, extant research largely examines intrapreneurship either at the organizational or individual level, and concentrates in corporate entrepreneurship or individual intrapreneurial employees. Research providing a holistic perspective on enablers for intrapreneurship is rare. The study further integrates these intrapreneurial enablers with facilitating mechanisms and proposes a framework of intrapreneurship. The framework makes it possible to clearly identify pivotal antecedents to intrapreneurship based on various theoretical lenses and analytical levels applied. Finally, the study addresses a list of managerial and technological challenges arising from the above framework and suggests future research agenda.

Chief Executive Officer Tenacity and Employee Intrapreneurial Behavior: The Mediating Role of Corporate Social Responsibility

“…Then, CEO tenacity is relevant to all three elements, because it influences employees’ attitudes and judgments at the individual level through the social information processing process, and it may have an impact on resource availability and culture at the organizational level through CSR. Its direct impact on employee intrapreneurship and its indirect impact through CSR complements the five incentives proposed by Huang et al (2021) .…”

“…Based on social information processing theory, this study investigates the direct and indirect ways in which CEO tenacity affects employee intrapreneurship. Huang et al (2021) constructed a framework for the literature on employee intrapreneurship and considered individual enablers, organizational enablers, and facilitating mechanisms. According to them, CSR may be an organizational-level element that, based on the previous discussion, may form a supportive structure that drives employee intrapreneurship.…”

“…Meanwhile, more recent evidence suggests that employee intrapreneurship, including employee strategic renewal behavior employee venture behavior, helps organizations improve performance and build competitiveness ( Criado-Gomis et al, 2018 ; Gawke et al, 2019 ; Pellegrini et al, 2019 ; Luu, 2020 ). The antecedents driving employee intrapreneurship as a focus of internal strategic innovation have attracted much attention at present ( Huang et al, 2021 ), such as employees’ personality ( Mahmoud et al, 2020 ), organizational support ( Chouchane et al, 2021 ), and spiritual leadership ( Usman et al, 2021 ), but empirical studies on CEO psychological traits need to be further developed. Therefore, it is novel for this study to examine whether and how CEO tenacity can have an impact on employee intrapreneurship.…”

Entrepreneurship Education and Training Programmes: A Lifespan Development Perspective

“…This will be particularly salient during adulthood and late adulthood and may help to shape the career of adults and lead them to change jobs and seek self-employment in the start-up or new venture. In addition, organisations may encourage intrapreneurship (Huang, et al, 2021) whereby employees are encouraged to pursue new ventures and alternative career options. Again FB lit may support here.…”

Liderança Compartilhada, Intraempreendedorismo E Inovação: Um Estudo De Caso Com Os Grupos De Trabalho Do Ideialab/Bndes

“…Estudos têm associado o intraempreendedorismo a melhorias no desempenho organizacional por meio do desenvolvimento de uma cultura de inovação e sustentabilidade (HUANG;YANG LIN;HSIEH, 2021). No contexto do intraempreendedorismo, os desafios de inovação exigem a reunião de habilidades, conhecimentos e experiências variadas e que não são mais atendidas por um indivíduo ou equipe isolada.…”