Organizational support for intrapreneurship and its interaction with human capital to enhance innovative performance

Alpkan, Lütfi; Bulut, Çağrı; Günday, Gürhan; Ulusoy, Gündüz; Kılıç, Kemal

doi:10.1108/02517471080000697

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“…Similarly, our purpose is to replicate this study with more recent GEM data at the national and/or subnational levels. Additionally, the inclusion of other variables may allow a more detailed assessment of the relative probabilities to state entrepreneurial intentions for several specific groups of respondents, such as women (Pardo-del-Val 2010), intrapreneurship (Alpkan et al 2010;Arendt and Brettel 2010) or franchise businesses (Lindblom and Tikkanen 2010;Gámez-González et al 2010). In particular, this analysis may be applied to assess high-tech (Lin et al 2010) and innovation-driven start-ups (Sundbo 2009;Zhang and Duan 2010;Baregheh et al 2009;Huang et al 2010;Abreu et al 2010;Meliá et al 2010;Rubalcaba et al 2010;Toivonen and Tuominen 2009).…”

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The influence of perceptions on potential entrepreneurs

2011

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Much research has tried to explain why some people, but not others, choose to become entrepreneurs. The cognitive approach provides a useful insight to explore the entrepreneur-related phenomena through perceptions and intentions. Cross-national studies of this kind are rare, since large international surveys are needed. In this sense, the GEM-project questionnaire includes some questions about entrepreneurial perceptions of the adult population. Thus, the main objective of this paper is building a theoretical framework of entrepreneurial perceptions and testing their influence on entrepreneurial intentions with GEM data. This may allow overcoming some of the weaknesses of previous studies in entrepreneurial intentions. Three kinds of perceptions are identified: individual perceptions, perceptions about entrepreneurial opportunities, and socio-cultural perceptions. Their effect on intentions is tested along with some control variables. Results confirm that these perceptions are relevant variables in explaining the entrepreneurial intention of individuals across nations. At the same time, results from this paper would contribute to the opening up of a new line of analysis using GEM-project data: the conception stage of the new venture process; that is, the study of potential entrepreneurs.

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“…The former study deals with the rural environment, while the latter examines the role that legitimacy or social acceptance plays in entrepreneurship, as well as that of the entrepreneurial function in men and women. Gender differences analyzed in both theoretical and empirical studies that have attempted to examine the impact of sexual stereotypes on attitudes, perceptions and intentions in terms of starting a new business (Brush et al 2004;Kirkwood 2007;Gupta et al 2008) have been refuted by other authors who claim that individual differences represent the main reason why certain individuals undertake entrepreneurial activities and others do not (Baron 1998;Douglas and Shepherd 2000;Shane and Venkataraman 2000;Alpkan et al 2010;Martinez-Gomez et al 2010;Mas-Verdu et al 2010;Un and Montoro-Sanchez 2010).…”

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Perceptions and attitudes towards entrepreneurship. An analysis of gender among university students

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The present article analyzes the existence of gender differences in the perceptions and attitudes of university students towards entrepreneurship. It measures perceptions of the public image of the entrepreneur, along with the desirability, viability and intentionality of students towards creating their own business. The empirical data for this research comes from a sample of university students who have attended a Business Creation program run by the venture capital association known as Fostering Entrepreneurs hip in Extremadura, Spain. Data analysis using bivariate and multivariate techniques reveal significant results, indicating that gender plays a significant role in how the figure of the entrepreneur is perceived and on the intention to generate new business. Problem statement and research objectivesGiven the importance of entrepreneurship in helping to solve problems of unemployment, economic growth and innovation, all aspects related to new companies and new business owners has attracted interest from both government agencies and scientists in recent decades.

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“…In this case, the improvement of human capital, social capital, and property rights, and the reduction of corruption, tax burden, inflation, and macroeconomic instability would be adequate principles to take into account. This is important in the case of transtion economies (Smallbone et al 2010), to promote female entrepreneurship (Pardo-del-Val 2010), to support intrapreneurship (Alpkan et al 2010) and to take into account the differences between entrepreneurs and small business owners (Wagener et al 2010). 2.…”

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Relationship between organizations, institutions, entrepreneurship and economic growth process

2011

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The main goal of this paper is to show that organizations and institutions play a relevant role in the economic growth process, both directly and indirectly. Human capital plays a direct role by facilitating the introduction and use of new technologies. A more indirect role is play by entrepreneurial activity in three ways: 1) supplying monetary funds; 2) creating an adequate social climate and 3) encouraging trust in the society. The hypotheses introduced are tested using the data on eleven countries.

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Organizational support for intrapreneurship and its interaction with human capital to enhance innovative performance

Cited by 121 publications

References 68 publications

The influence of perceptions on potential entrepreneurs

The influence of perceptions on potential entrepreneurs

Perceptions and attitudes towards entrepreneurship. An analysis of gender among university students

Relationship between organizations, institutions, entrepreneurship and economic growth process

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