An analysis of an organisational strategy, structure and culture that supports corporate entrepreneurship in established organisations

South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences

 
 
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Title An analysis of an organisational strategy, structure and culture that supports corporate entrepreneurship in established organisations
 
Creator Nayager, T Van Vuuren, JJ
 
Description The environment in which a business operates is not static. Intensifying global competition and rapid technological progressput presure on business to change. Better quality and service and lower costs are no longer enough to give a competitiveadvantage. Adaptability, flexibility, speed, aggressiveness and innovativeness are increasingly necessary. This can beachieved by entrepreneurial organisations. Through corporate entrepreneurship, big business can improve its profitabilityand competitive standing. This research aims to determine the characteristics of organisational strategy, structure andculture that foster corporate entrepreneurship in large and established companies. These characteristics were applied to anestablished organisation to evaluate to what extent its strategy, culture and structure would support entrepreneurialactivities and initiatives. Data were collected through self-completion questionnaires and analysed by calculating Cronbachalpha values, t-test and ANOVA.
 
Publisher AOSIS Publishing
 
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Date 2015-01-12
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion —
Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/sajems.v8i1.1281
 
Source South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences; Vol 8, No 1 (2005); 29-38 2222-3436 1015-8812
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2015 T Nayager, JJ Van Vuuren https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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