This document discusses intrapreneurship and its relationship to organizational performance. It defines intrapreneurship as entrepreneurial behavior within an existing company that can lead to innovation and improved firm outcomes. The document reviews theoretical perspectives on intrapreneurship and outlines factors that encourage its development, such as supportive environments, rewards for innovators, and loose structures. When intrapreneurship is successfully implemented, the outcomes can include new products/processes, growth, learning, and increased profitability and customer satisfaction. The document concludes that intrapreneurship can provide competitive advantages and that companies should cultivate environments where employees feel empowered to act entrepreneurially.
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Paper on intrepreneurship and organization performance by Samuel Obino Mokaya
1. Intrapreneurship and Organizational Performance: Theoretical Perspectives, Approaches and Outcomes By Samuel Obino Mokaya BA, PGD, Ph.D. (Student) o’mokaya@rpe.jkuat.ac.ke, skomokaya@yahoo.com Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology, Nairobi, Kenya Paper Presented at the 5 th International Moi University Conference on “Research and Knowledge Dissemination towards building of Healthy and Socio-economically Stable Nations”, 4th to 8th August 2009, Eldoret, Kenya
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17. Proposed Model Note: The proposed model borrows heavily from those proposed by other theorists (Heinonen and Korvela, 2003; Hornsby et al, 1993).
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