the purpose of this study is to examine the relationship among job satisfaction, organizational entrepreneurship and organizational growth. the study was a descriptive-co relational, survey research. insurance experts of tehran province was included in this study. a questionnaire was designed and employed to gather the required data. instrument was given to the faculty of the department of insu...

Growth has been described as the essence of entrepreneurship. Organizational ecologists theorize an inevitable progression from growth through maturity, revival, and eventually decline. During the organizational life cycle entrepreneurs choose between growth, stability, or retrenchment strategies to overcome deteriorating trends in performance. Using survey data, this study tests a contingency ...

there are considerable debates about the existence, nature, and application of entrepreneurship within the public sector. the present survey analyzes the application of entrepreneurship in iranian public sector organizations. for this purpose, the situation of entrepreneurship within the head offices of iranian public service organizations was considered. also, based on mckeinsy and daft’s fram...

In the today′s changing environment, firms are hardly competing with each other to achieve a competitive advantage that can differentiate them from others and improve their organizational performance. In this sense, it is crucial to develop corporate entrepreneurship and promote strategic variables that

Recently there has been a growing interest in the use of corporate entrepreneurship as a means for corporations to enhance the innovative abilities of their employees and, at the same time, increase corporate success through the creation of new corporate ventures. However, the creation of corporate activity is difficult since it involves radically changing internal organisational behaviour patt...

This paper asks how we can predict entrepreneurship, an individual’s participation in the founding of a new organization. We advance a model that combines aspects of two distinct perspectives on entrepreneurship: the social structural view that sees context as the driving force in new venture formation, and the perspective that each founding is an idiosyncratic event attributable to the charism...

This paper focuses on the questions to what extent agglomeration effects and localized inter-organizational linkages influence different types of innovative performance of firms. Doing so adds to the relatively scarce firm-level literature regarding the role of regional environment for the innovative performance of firms by disentangling the often conflated effects of agglomeration effects and ...