Organizational entrepreneurship and the organizational performance linkage in university extension

Abstract

Entrepreneurial actions are viewed as critical pathways to improved performance in organizations of all types, sizes, and ages.Within the growing body of literature there is a need to investigate entrepreneurship in order to provide theoretical and practical applications for existing organizations.This study examined the relationship between Organizational Entrepreneurship and Organizational Performance within the Cooperative Extension System, a national educational network extending the research-based knowledge of land-grant colleges and universities.This study measured both Entrepreneurial Orientation, based on Covin and Slevin's scale (1989), and Entrepreneurial Management, based on a scale developed by Brown, Davidsson, and Wiklund (2001) that operationalized Stevenson's (1983) conceptualization of entrepreneurship as a set of opportunity-based management practices.Extension Directors in the United States and territories were invited to respond to a questionnaire, reporting on Organizational Entrepreneurship and Organizational Performance based on both financial and non-financial indictors.Seventy percent of the Extension directors responded and results were aggregated by regional categories.Substantial Organizational Entrepreneurship was evident in Extension organizations in all four region.This study measured Organizational Performance based on a five year funding trend, as well as on non-financial indicators through a Performance Satisfaction v VITA 30 May 1962 . .

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