A research report submitted to the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, University of the Witwatersrand, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Management, specialising in Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation
Johannesburg, 2016 / The prominence of international entrepreneurship in the global economy is of
great importance and interest to researchers, entrepreneurs and governments
alike. International business and accelerated internationalisation focus on
multinational companies as well as entrepreneurial ventures for growth and
innovative collaborations across borders in the global environment.
The dominant logic for any corporate organisation today is to ensure that it
facilitates and fosters an ecosystem that is conducive to innovation. The
concept of generating opportunity through creativity and exploiting it with
innovation, has proved to be extremely difficult, yet valuable. Innovation and
control systems balance each other to ensure a pro-entrepreneurial
organisational climate.
Corporate entrepreneurship (CE) has received substantial attention in
entrepreneurship research, which expands and develops a cumulative body of
knowledge. The CE strategy is conceptualised by identifying key principles and
components. This research is formulated to investigate the pro-entrepreneurial
organisational architecture, as well as the entrepreneurial process and
behaviour that individually and collectively encourage entrepreneurial
orientation (EO). The relationships between the identified variables and
moderators in a bank in the financial sector of South Africa are measured.
Stevenson’s (1983) dimensions of entrepreneurial management, defined as a
set of opportunity-based constructs, was measured by the EM measurement
scale. Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) was assessed with the Miller/Covin-
Slevin scale and linked to the entrepreneurial or innovative process of the
company.
Analysis of 178 samples (n=2229) indicated positive relationships between the
variables, confirming theories in literature on the effects or predictions of the
elements in the CE strategy on each other. The effect of success or failure in
implementation indicated no moderating effect.
Recommendations to address in future research are suggested. / MT2017
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/23092 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Coetzee, Riaan |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | Online resource (xiii, 136 leaves), application/pdf, application/pdf, application/pdf |
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