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Predicting sustainable corporate entrepreneurship and sustained company performance
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/50726 Predicting sustainable corporate entrepreneurship and sustained company performance Van Vuuren, Jurie Jansen muweman2@hotmail.com Mungule, Charles M. UCTD Structural equation modelling Environmental dynamism Sustainable corporate entrepreneurship Company performance Economic and management sciences theses SDG-08 Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2015. Sustainable corporate entrepreneurship (CE) is a new field attracting increasing attention from scholars of different interested disciplines. Based on an analysis of 646 cases of managers in Zambia, this research attempts to determine whether sustainable CE and sustained company performance can be predicted, and also to identify best predictors of the phenomena. Through the use of structural equation modelling, the study applied the measurement instruments for CE climate and external environmental factors to analyse the data. The study findings indicate that CE climate (management support for internal CE; management support for external CE; work discretion; rewards/reinforcement; time availability; and organisational boundaries, barriers and bureaucracies), and external environment (dynamism; hostility; and heterogeneity), are compelling determinants of sustainable CE which leads to sustained company performance. While the internal organisational antecedents largely work through entrepreneurial actions, the external contextual influences have direct effect on sustainable CE as well as indirect effects through entrepreneurial actions. Specifically the findings show that management support for internal CE and environmental dynamism are the best predictors of sustainable CE among the organisational antecedents and environmental factors respectively. Valuable management implications of the findings in relation to the pursuit of sustainable CE as well as the substantive significance of the findings are highlighted. tm2015 cb2026 Business Management PhD Unrestricted SDG-08: Decent work and economic growth 2015-11-25T09:47:27Z 2015-11-25T09:47:27Z 2015/09/01 2015 Thesis Mungule, CM 2015, Predicting sustainable corporate entrepreneurship and sustained company performance, PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/50726> S2015 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/50726 en © 2015 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Structural equation modelling Environmental dynamism Sustainable corporate entrepreneurship Company performance Economic and management sciences theses SDG-08 Predicting sustainable corporate entrepreneurship and sustained company performance |
| title | Predicting sustainable corporate entrepreneurship and sustained company performance |
| title_full | Predicting sustainable corporate entrepreneurship and sustained company performance |
| title_fullStr | Predicting sustainable corporate entrepreneurship and sustained company performance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Predicting sustainable corporate entrepreneurship and sustained company performance |
| title_short | Predicting sustainable corporate entrepreneurship and sustained company performance |
| title_sort | predicting sustainable corporate entrepreneurship and sustained company performance |
| topic | UCTD Structural equation modelling Environmental dynamism Sustainable corporate entrepreneurship Company performance Economic and management sciences theses SDG-08 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/50726 |