Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Organisational Propensity to Innovate in a Public-Sector Context

Iuliia Iliashenko, Fragkoulis Papagiannis, Patrizia Gazzola, Nataliia Cherkas and Daniele Grechi

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies, 2023, vol. 32, issue 1, 111-156

Abstract: The importance of innovation, in both private and public entrepreneurial fields, is the basis of all companies’ strategic choices. This study examines entrepreneurship and innovation, as well as their dynamic interface in value creation, in the public sector. It explores entrepreneurial determinants for public-sector innovation, as collected from managers and employees involved in the water supply and sewage industries in Ukraine. The data, related to a sample of firms, were obtained from a twofold self-administered survey. Adopting an ordered logistic regression model to analyse the data obtained from a survey, it is found that the entrepreneurial determinants of self-awareness, knowledge-enabling and entrepreneurial orientation positively correlate with fostering innovation process. The findings reveal that entrepreneurial leadership and intrapreneurial self-efficacy are mediating determinants. Finally, the results demonstrate that intrapreneurial self-efficacy has more potential than entrepreneurial leadership to stimulate innovation at the individual level, which has both theoretical and practical implications.

Keywords: Public management; entrepreneurship; creativity and innovation in business (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1177/09713557231158239

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