Factors Affecting Entrepreneurial Behavior Among Employees in Organizations: Mediating Role of Affective Commitment

Muhammad Anwar ul Haq (), Yan Jingdong (), Muhammad Usman () and Shaista Khalid ()
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Muhammad Anwar ul Haq: Department of Management Sciences, University of Gujrat, Pakistan
Yan Jingdong: School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology, P. R. China
Muhammad Usman: Department of Management Studies, University of Malakand, Pakistan
Shaista Khalid: Department of Education, University of Sargodha, Pakistan

Journal of Enterprising Culture (JEC), 2018, vol. 26, issue 04, 349-378

Abstract: This paper finds the role of perceived failure tolerance, communication openness, work discretion, and reward fairness in influencing the entrepreneurial behavior of employees. We also study the mediating role of affective commitment between entrepreneurial behavior and its antecedents. Data were collected using survey design from 381 telecommunication professionals in Pakistan. The analysis, using SEM, shows that predictor variables have a significant positive influence on organizational entrepreneurial behavior. Furthermore, affective commitment partially mediates the relationship between failure tolerance, communication openness, work discretion and organizational entrepreneurial behavior, whereas, it fully mediates the effect of reward fairness. On the basis of our results, managers are advised to lead their followers in such a way that the employees offer their innovative potential for the organization by becoming internal entrepreneurs.

Keywords: Entrepreneurial behavior; affective commitment; perceived failure tolerance; reward fairness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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