Corporate entrepreneurship: the role of middle-level management on corporate entrepreneurship within the telecommunications industry in South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorEngelbrecht, Andre
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-27T13:16:14Z
dc.date.available2017-01-27T13:16:14Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionA research report submitted to the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, University of the Witwatersrand, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Management in Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation March 2015en_ZA
dc.description.abstractGuth and Ginsberg (1990) stressed that Corporate Entrepreneurship (CE) encompasses two major phenomena: new venture creation within existing organisations and the transformation of on-going organisations through strategic renewal. Zahra (1991, p. 262) observed that Corporate Entrepreneurship may be formal or informal activities aimed at creating new business in established companies through product and process innovations and market developments. The research study was quantitative and data was collected through an online questionnaire, which used closed-ended questionnaires. The questionnaires entail assessing the degree of CE within the telecommunications industry in South Africa. The analysis involved 172 samples of responses to the online questionnaire. The research indicated that that there is a correlation between the dependent variable (entrepreneurial orientation) and the independent variables (innovation, performance, risk taking, and pro-activeness). The findings of the research contribute to the South African telecommunications industry in terms of innovation, regulation, external collaboration and entrepreneurial orientation literature and studies.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianMT2017en_ZA
dc.format.extentOnline resource (141 leaves)
dc.identifier.citationEngelbrecht, Andre (2016) Corporate entrepreneurship: the role of middle-level management on corporate entrepreneurship within the telecommunications industry in South Africa, University of the Witwatersrand, <http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle/10539/21773>
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/21773
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshEntrepreneurship--South Africa
dc.subject.lcshTelecommunication--South Africa
dc.titleCorporate entrepreneurship: the role of middle-level management on corporate entrepreneurship within the telecommunications industry in South Africaen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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