Adapting corporate entrepreneurship assessment instrument for Romania
South African Journal of Business Management
Field | Value | |
Title | Adapting corporate entrepreneurship assessment instrument for Romania | |
Creator | Vizitiu, Cristian Agapie, Alexandru Paiusan, Robert Hadad, Shahrazad Nastase, Marian | |
Description | Background: The study adapts the corporate entrepreneurship assessment instrument (CEAI), a notable North American psychometric instrument used to evaluate entrepreneurial culture, and investigates its construct validity scale, taking into account that psychometric instruments have limited cross-cultural portability. Objectives: We aim at identifying the perceived internal management key factors in the Romanian entrepreneurial culture (private sector) and applying CEAI to emergent economies. Method: The corporate entrepreneurship assessment instrument uses a 48-item Likert scale questionnaire to collect information from a large sample of employees working in different companies. The questions, seen as random variables, are then factor analysed in order to get a reduced more manageable structure. Factors are finally interpreted with respect to the entrepreneurial propensity of the business sector in study. The software used for statistical analysis was SPSS. Results: The survey conducted on 175 professionals from Romanian technology-based companies yielded a 10-factor structure for this particular business environment: reinforcement and work discretion, dynamic environment and decreased formalisation, delegation, time availability, strategic awareness, management support, stress, vertical communication, horizontal communication and knowledge sharing. Conclusion: The study provides a thorough understanding of the Romanian post-communist corporate culture, and, together with a similar analysis recently performed in South Africa, aims to create a clearer picture of cross-cultural portability of entrepreneurship psychometric instruments. | |
Publisher | AOSIS | |
Date | 2018-06-28 | |
Identifier | 10.4102/sajbm.v49i1.8 | |
Source | South African Journal of Business Management; Vol 49, No 1 (2018); 7 pages 2078-5976 2078-5585 | |
Language | eng | |
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