Entrepreneurial intensity: A comparative analysis of established companies in South Africa
South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Entrepreneurial intensity: A comparative analysis of established companies in South Africa | |
| Creator | Scheepers, Retha Hough, Johan Bloom, Jonathan | |
| Description | Entrepreneurship is gaining recognition as an important way of attaining a sustainable competitive advantage and positive financial returns. This article compares the entrepreneurial intensity (EI) of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) companies with that of listed JSE companies (excluding ICT listings). A cross-section telephone survey was conducted. The findings suggest that ICT companies are more entrepreneurial than JSE companies. Additionally, the size of a company shows no relation to EI, but age is negatively correlated to EI. By implication, the older the company, the less entrepreneurial it becomes. The findings suggest that organisational factorsinfluence EI and that EI is industry specific. The managerial implication for companies that want to become more entrepreneurial is that they should create organisational conditions conducive to the development of corporate entrepreneurship. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS Publishing | |
| Date | 2013-04-09 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/sajems.v10i2.585 | |
| Source | South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences; Vol 10, No 2 (2007); 238-255 2222-3436 1015-8812 | |
| Language | eng | |
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