Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Abstract

There is an increasing interest of research on the area of corporate entrepreneurship recently. But much focus is given to specific areas. like the definitional issues in the field of corporate entrepreneurship (Sharma P, Chrisman JJ 1999),developing and refining an instrument (Kuratko et al,1990; Hornsby et al,2002;Morris et al 2001; Tasika. M.Davis 2006; Adonisi 2003),linking corporate entrepreneurship to strategy, structure, and process(Lumpkin and Dess 1999) the relationship between corporate entrepreneurship and strategic management (Barringer and Bluedorn,1999). An investigation of the internal organizational entrepreneurial climate and its relationship with innovativeness is generally scarce. Thus, by developing a model which relates corporate entrepreneurial variables with innovation, this study investigates the functional relationship between the two. Furthermore, the study tries to analyse the prevalence of corporate entrepreneurship and the level of innovation in Ethiopian leather footwear industry. Using analytical survey design in a cross sectional time, 6 leather footwear companies were selected judgmentally from Addis Ababa. The descriptive analysis showed that all the corporate entrepreneurial variables are below average on a five point likert scale measure. The level of innovation is also rated as average on a similar scale. Results of correlation matrix also indicated a positive association between the corporate entrepreneurial variables and innovation. furthermore, Regression analysis showed that reward system

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