Assessment of entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial orientation constructs: An analysis of past research

Abstract

Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) can act as a predictor and indicator of firm-level entrepreneurship in organisations of different sizes. Intrapreneurial Orientation (IO), as an offspring of EO, describes an individual employee's inclination to act entrepreneurially. Yet while the importance of an organisation's EO cannot be overstated, a lack of clarity exists as to which common constructs underpin these concepts, as no study has attempted to analyse the shared conceptual basis underpinning EO, IO and other connected concepts. The purpose of this study is to analyse the underlying constructs of past EO and IO studies. The study is qualitative in nature by utilising a narrative review methodology. The review was conducted in prominent international databases. Discovered articles were analysed by means of content and thematic analysis. Results reveal that EO studies mostly utilise three constructs, namely risk-taking, innovativeness and proactiveness, while competitive aggressiveness and autonomy are less frequently utilised. Instruments developed by Miller (1983), as well as Covin and Slevin (1989) were the most frequently utilised instruments to assess EO. Studies investigating IO lack commonality in constructs, with only innovativeness representing a common construct. Entrepreneurial Attitude Orientation was found to act as an extension to IO, utilising similar constructs and one underlying instrument only. Findings of this study provide researchers and academics with an up-to-date identification and analysis of the main constructs underlying popular EO and IO instruments, thereby assisting in the development of instruments in future EO and IO studies.

Entrepreneurial Orientation in Micro and Small Enterprises of Traditional Food Centers in Bandung, West Java

“…It can support any kinds of entrepreneurial activities which is adopted by the organizations directly or indirectly (Stambaugh, Martinez, Lumpkin, & Kataria, 2017). In that term, EO is usually as the conservative concept that can measure the entrepreneurship of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) (Cuevas-Vargas, Parga-Montoya, & Fernández-Escobedo, 2019; Mohamad & Chin, 2019;Zhu, Liu, & Chen, 2018;Aloulou, 2019), micro-enterprises (Schachtebeck, Groenewald, & Nieuwenhuizen, 2018;Al Mamun, Kumar, Ibrahim, & Bin Yusoff, 2017;Neneh & Van Zyl, 2017;Kozubíková & Zoubková, 2016), and family firm (Kallmuenzer, Strobl, & Peters, 2018;Imran, Jian, Haque, Urbański, & Nair, 2018;Sung & Park, 2018;Kee & Rahman, 2018;Micheels & Boecker, 2017;Jansson, Nilsson, Modig, & Hed Vall, 2017). Besides that, EO has become one of the most established constructs in entrepreneurship and management research (Covin & Miller, 2014;Wales, Shirokova, Sokolova, & Stein, 2016).…”

“…Besides that, EO has become one of the most established constructs in entrepreneurship and management research (Covin & Miller, 2014;Wales, Shirokova, Sokolova, & Stein, 2016). The growing popularity of entrepreneurship studies in the worldwide have motivated interest of many researchers in understanding the manifestation and application of EO in diverse socio-cultural contexts (Wales, Cox, Lortie, & Sproul, 2019;Schachtebeck et al 2018) and industries (Imran et al, 2018;Schachtebeck et al 2018).…”

Application of Intention-Based Models in the Context of Intrapreneurship: A Literature Review

“…Intrapreneurship mainly focuses on innovation venturing and strategic renewal, these two dimensions together constitute organizational renewal (Zahra, 1993). Intrapreneurship has emerged under entrepreneurship (Schachtebeck, 2021) and encourages individuals to practice entrepreneurship within an established and large scale organizations. Intrapreneurship can be accomplished with the emerging behavioral intentions and behaviors exist in an organization regardless of its size.…”

“…At present, the importance of Innovative behaviors and innovations have been widely recognized and discussed under inrapreneurship (Kamran & Ganjinia, 2017). ISSN 2332-8851 2023 Entrepreneurship is all about planned behaviors (Kautonen et al, 2015;Khan, Chen and Fatema (2022) and intrapreneurship is a sub field emerging under thereof (Schachtebeck, 2021).…”