Adapting corporate entrepreneurship assessment instrument for Romania
| Autor: | Cristian Vizitiu, Alexandru Agapie, Robert Paiusan, Shahrazad Hadad, Marian Nastase |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | South African Journal of Business Management, Vol 49, Iss 1, Pp e1-e7 (2018) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2078-5585 2078-5976 |
| DOI: | 10.4102/sajbm.v49i1.8 |
| Popis: | 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. |
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