A Systems View Across Time and Space
Table 4 Articles and research designs included in the SLR
Study | Journal | Research subject | Theoretical framework | Article type | Broad contours of outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Woo (2018) | Career Development International | Study of personality traits and intrapreneurship with the mediated effect of career adaptability | Personality traits (extraversion, openness, conscientiousness), intrapreneurship, career adaptability | Empirical/quantitative | ⋅ Understanding of employees issues in developing competencies of intrapreneurship ⋅ To investigate personality traits as an antecedent of intrapreneurship |
Deprez and Euwema (2017) | Journal of Managerial Psychology | Study of employees expectations from leaders in intrapreneurship jobs | Expands knowledge of implicit leadership theory | Empirical/qualitative | ⋅ Intrapreneurial employees’ expectations include personal connection, ample freedom, sufficient feedback, and trust ⋅ Employees, irrespective of their role (engineering or managerial), seek clear direction from their leaders |
Antoncic and Hisrich (2003) | Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development | Clarification of intrapreneurial concept domains prevalent and established in the literature | Contribute towards development of the theory of intrapreneurship | Conceptual/literature-based study | ⋅ Systematically differentiate intrapreneurial concept from parallel management concepts ⋅ Highlight eight intrapreneurship dimensions in research and their theoretical background ⋅ Proposed to view intrapreneurship as a multidimensional concept |
Menzel et al. (2007) | Technovation | ⋅ Description of making engineers to perform the intrapreneurial role in large organisations ⋅ Explore origin of intrapreneurship in engineering industry settings | Not specified | Qualitative | ⋅ Who is an engineering intrapreneur? ⋅ Education and work-related consequences of making intrapreneur ⋅ Organisational and managerial support for intrapreneurship ⋅ Intrapreneurship as the basis of firm renewal and technological innovation ⋅ Engineers as a professional workforce in organisations to produce innovation ⋅ Innovation is not limited to technical knowledge, rather social and technical innovation move in parallel |
Benitez-Amado, Llorens-Montes, and Nieves Perez-Arostegui (2010) | Industrial Management & Data Systems | Analyze the relationship of technological and managerial information technology resources with intrapreneurial culture and organisation performance | Managerial and technical information technology resources, intrapreneurial culture, firm performance | Empirical/quantitative | ⋅ Use of information technology-based resources in the development of intrapreneurial culture ⋅ Generation of business value and organisation performance through intrapreneurship culture |
Augusto Felício et al. (2012) | Management Decision | Influence of intrapreneurship on firm performance | Theory of entrepreneurship and the resource-based view | Empirical/quantitative | ⋅ Intrapreneurship effects on firm performance, growth, and improvement ⋅ Multidimensional structure of intrapreneurship influenced by proactivity, innovative action, and associated challenges due to risk propensity ⋅ Lower importance of autonomy, risk uncertainty, competitive energy, and innovation capacity on intrapreneurship |
Alam et al. (2020) | Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship | Influence of knowledge sharing behaviour in relationship of personality traits and intrapreneurial behaviour | Personality traits and intrapreneurial behaviour | Empirical/ quantitative | ⋅Knowledge sharing behaviour strengthens the impact of personality traits on intrapreneurial behaviour ⋅ Comparison between employees of engineering and functional departments have been drawn with respect to intrapreneurial behaviour and personality traits |
Sinha and Srivastava (2013) | The Journal of Entrepreneurship | Impact of socio-cultural factors, work values, and personality traits on intrapreneurial orientation | Personality factors, work value, socio-cultural factors, and intrapreneurial orientation | Empirical/quantitative | ⋅ Personality traits impacted intrapreneurial orientation ⋅ Neuroticism impacts negatively on intrapreneurial orientation ⋅ Extraversion, altruism, achievement, and creativity management positive impact on the intrapreneurial orientation |
Karimi, Malekmohamadi, Ahmadpour Daryani, and Rezvanfar (2011) | Journal of European Industrial Training | Identification of factors that affect the phenomenon of intrapreneurship and outcomes of intrapreneurship in organisations | Conceptual model of intrapreneurship has been proposed and previous scholarly work presented to support the proposed model | Concept paper | ⋅ A contextual study of intrapreneurship ⋅ New insights regarding intrapreneurship in agriculture extension are developed ⋅ Various avenues for future research based on the proposed model identified |
Williamson et al. (2013) | Journal of Engineering and Technology Management | Personality traits on which engineers differ from non-engineers in their intrapreneurial role and career satisfaction of engineers | Holland (1996) vocational theory | Empirical/quantitative | ⋅ Intrapreneurship is discussed as the new role of engineers in organisations ⋅ Engineers differed from non-engineers in most of the personality traits ⋅ Engineers score low in most of the personality traits as compared to non-engineers affecting their role in intrapreneurial and innovation-related jobs |
Skovvang Christensen (2005) | European Journal of Innovation Management | Understanding of intrapreneurship based on various factors in knowledge intense established firms | Not specified | Case study/synthesis/qualitative | ⋅ Five enabling factors that inhibit intrapreneurship identified ⋅ Knowledge of intrapreneurship enablers and factors is incomplete |
Alipour et al. (2011) | European Journal of Social Sciences | Investigate learning organisation’s improvement in organisation performance | Conceptual model of intrapreneurship as the mediator between learning organisation and organisation performance is proposed | Qualitative | ⋅ Improve understanding of “knowledge of established learning organisation” and “organisation performance link” ⋅ Intrapreneurship impacts on established organisational relationships |
Osman, Noordin, Daud, and Hashim (2017) | Advanced Science Letters | Talent retention and intrapreneurship among engineers | Not specified | Quantitative | ⋅ Intrapreneurship, innovativeness, and risk-taking as a powerful platform for engineers in response to the prevalent business environment ⋅ Intrapreneurship as engineers’ behavioral expectations and retention outcomes ⋅ Intrapreneurship implications on engineers in idea generation and capability to transform ideas into doable business results |
Chan et al. (2017) | Frontiers in Psychology | Investigate the relationship between entrepreneurial, professional and leadership career motivations and intrapreneurial motivation | Not specified | Empirical/quantitative | ⋅ Intrapreneurship is not unique to entrepreneurial employees only ⋅ High entrepreneurial, professional, and leadership motivation leads to high intrapreneurial motivation |
Antoncic and Prodan (2008) | Technovation | CE importance for organisational performance | Conceptual model developed and tested | Quantitative | ⋅ Strategic alliances for development of corporate technological entrepreneurship activities consequence performance |
Rule and Irwin (1988) | Journal of Business Strategy | Cultivation of entrepreneurial qualities of creativity and innovation in established organisations | Not specified | Qualitative | ⋅ Pioneer articles of intrapreneurship area of research ⋅ Intrapreneurship—entrepreneurial capability in an established corporation ⋅ Intrapreneurship—organisations identify new products, philosophies, and ideas |
Russell (1999) | Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice | Cognitive mapping approach used to build CE model from the organisational perspective | Not specified | Qualitative/cognitive mapping approach | ⋅ Understanding of innovation process generation in intrapreneurial firms ⋅ Application of Maruyama (1963) concept of “morphogenetic” system provide an explanation of intrapreneurship characteristics |
Sayeed and Gazdar (2003) | The Journal of Entrepreneurship | Attributes of intrapreneurs | Not specified | Empirical/quantitative | ⋅ Access and validate scale comprising conceptual intrapreneurial dimensions of designer, change agent, entrepreneur, innovator, and leader |
Kassa and Raju (2015) | Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies | Investigation of the relationship between employee engagement and CE | Social exchange theory | Pragmatic | ⋅ Reinforcement of Saks (2006) proposition that social exchange theory provides a theoretical basis for understanding employee engagement ⋅ Organisation and employees relationship as a mutually beneficial reciprocal exchange |
Antoncic (2007) | Industrial Management & Data Systems | Comparative study of testing of two models of intrapreneurship in two countries | Zero-means model and latent-means model | Empirical/quantitative | ⋅ Highlights limitations of previous research on intrapreneurship which focused on coefficients of model or patterns of relationships as compared to the level of measurement of intrapreneurship ⋅ Examine patterns and levels of the relationship of intrapreneurship in two countries by testing two models |
Corbett and Hmieleski (2007) | Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice | Differing mental processes of corporate entrepreneurs | Social cognitive theory | Qualitative | ⋅ Examine the relationship between role and event schemas necessary for intrapreneurship ⋅ The theoretical framework for explaining the interplay between role and event schema of intrapreneurs that are distinct from entrepreneurs |
Kansikas and Murphy (2010) | International Journal of Learning and Change | Intrapreneurial education possibilities in the adaptation of learning organisation’s behavior and climate | No theory used | Qualitative/content analysis | ⋅ Self-management skills and individual’s motivation importance in increasing learning organisation credentials through intrapreneurial education ⋅ Importance of theoretical and practical skills in the achievement of aims of intrapreneurial education |
Kacperczyk (2012) | Administrative Science Quarterly | Re-examines the view that large organisations stifle an employee’s motivation and ability to become an entrepreneur | No theory used | Quantitative | ⋅ Large organisations employees exhibit higher propensity of intrapreneurship ⋅ The high rate of intrapreneurship in large organisations averaged stultification process of entrepreneurship of employees |
Del Vitto (2008) | Online Journal for Global Engineering Education | Cross-cultural soft skills and the global engineer role, corporate best practices, and training methodologies | No theory used | Qualitative | ⋅ Examine best practices of international companies and engineering university programs to develop better standards for training of global engineers ⋅ Importance of development of “cross-cultural adaptive soft skills” which assist engineers in collaborative assignments and internships expatriate ⋅ Highlight inadequacies of engineering programs offered by universities on the development of hard technical skills |
Farrukh et al. (2016) | Management & Marketing | Personality traits impact on intrapreneurial behavior | No theory used | Empirical/quantitative | ⋅ The positive impact of extroversion, emotional stability, and openness on intrapreneurial behavior while the negative impact of agreeableness and conscientiousness on intrapreneurial behavior ⋅ Consideration of personality traits by management during the recruitment process of employees in organisations to ensure innovation and intrapreneurship |
Ağca, Topal, and Kaya (2012) | International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal | Investigate relationship among intrapreneurship, external environment, and performance in manufacturing firms | No theory used | Empirical/quantitative | ⋅ Environment factors impact positively on intrapreneurial activities ⋅ Profitability and growth are positively related to intrapreneurship ⋅ Innovation impacts significantly on customer and employee satisfaction |
Alpkan, Bulut, Gunday, Ulusoy, and Kilic (2010) | Management Decision | Investigate the impacts of the internal environment for intrapreneurial ventures on the innovative performance of firms and the role of human capital | No theory used | Empirical/quantitative | ⋅ Management support for intrapreneurial venture and risk-taking tolerance have a positive impact on innovative performance ⋅ Performance-based reward and availability of free time have no impact on innovation ⋅ Human capital is an important driver of innovative performance in the limited organisation support |