A conceptual model of intrapreneurship in the Iranian agricultural extension organization

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“…The Hornsby et al (2002) Hornsby et al 2013;Karimi et al 2011;Kuratko & Audretsch 2013;Marzban, Seyed & Ramezan 2013;Nikolov & Urban 2013). This specific measure forms the focus of this research.…”

The effect of entrepreneurial personality traits of undergraduates in the area of education of physical education and sports on the entrepreneurship tendency

“…In the literature, entrepreneurship is mostly associated with innovativeness (Covin & Slevin 1991;Knight, 1997;Zahra, 1995). Karimi et al (2011) expressed entrepreneurship as forming new products, services, processes, technologies, and work models and emphasizing the developments in technology. Brenkert (2009) also defines innovation as the fact that firm supports new thoughts aiming to develop new product and service and encourages creative processes.…”

Relationship between Corporate Entrepreneurship, Market Orientation and Organizational Performance: With Reference to Small and Medium Enterprises in Southern Province

“…Considering the organization, there are five factors which conducive to intrapreneurship as communication openness, control mechanisms, environmental scanning intensity, organizational management support and organizational values were the manifestation from the literature (Antoncic, 2007). Karimi, Malekmohamadi, Daryani and Rezvanfar (2011) When compare these two researches, basically those are the factors that enforce the organizations to apply corporate entrepreneurship internally and it implies the management support for create an environment that enhance corporate entrepreneurship practices in organizations.…”

“…The relationship between corporate entrepreneurship and organizational performance had been discussed in the literature by different researchers by using different samples i.e. from different organizational settings (Zahra, 1995;Karimi et al, 2011) and different countries (Antoncic, 2007;Zain and Hassan, 2007;Aktan and Bulut, 2008;Ozdemirci, 2011;Yang, Li-Hua, Zhang, and Wang, 2007;Wang and Zhang, 2009;Felicio, Rodrigues and Caldeirinha, 2012). Zahra (1995), in his study showed the changes in a company's entrepreneurial activities which impact its performance based on the sample of leveraged buyout firms.…”

“…Adapted fromKarimi et a! 2011 An integrated model(Figure 2.7) for corporate entrepreneurship was again developed byMokaya (2012) which includes additional antecedent variables as well as dimensions of corporate entrepreneurship.…”