''Day-to-day" entrepreneurship within organisations: The role of trait Emotional Intelligence and Perceived Organisational Support

Leonidas A. Zampetakis, Panagiotis Beldekos and Vassilis S. Moustakis

European Management Journal, 2009, vol. 27, issue 3, 165-175

Abstract: Summary The aim of this article is to deepen the understanding of the factors, which influence individual entrepreneurial behaviour in organisations. Using a sample of 224 employees from four organisations, we tested by means of structural equation modeling the influence of personal traits (represented by trait EI or emotional self-efficacy) and contextual factors (represented by Perceived Organisational Support - POS) on entrepreneurial behaviour. Results indicate that both personal and contextual variables correlate with individual entrepreneurial behaviour. Moreover, findings demonstrate a significant negative relationship of the joint impact of POS and organisation tenure on entrepreneurial behaviour. The present effort extends theoretical and empirical research on the effects of personal and contextual factors on corporate entrepreneurship while applications of the results are discussed.

Keywords: Entrepreneurial; behaviour; Perceived; Organisational; Support; Trait; EI; Corporate; entrepreneurship; Organisational; tenure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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