Intrapreneurs, high performers, or hybrid stars? How individual entrepreneurial orientation affects employee performance

Coen Rigtering, Thomas Niemand, Vinh Phan and Jason Gawke

Journal of Business Research, 2024, vol. 176, issue C

Abstract: Recently, scholars have extended the concept of entrepreneurial orientation to the individual level. Yet, how individual entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) contributes to employee performance is not well understood. Building on role theory, we develop a novel typology of employee performance that distinguishes between employee behavior aimed at achieving in-role performance and employee engagement in intrapreneurial activities. To test how IEO affects the different performance prototypes of this typology, we collected survey and archival data on IEO, entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE), employee in-role performance, and engagement in intrapreneurship in a Dutch subsidiary of an international consultancy firm. Our results show that IEO is positively associated with in-role performance and intrapreneurship. ESE is also positively associated with in-role performance and intrapreneurship, albeit indirectly via IEO. These results mark an initial step in unraveling the impact of IEO on employee and firm performance, as well as why different outcomes occur as a result of IEO.

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Orientation; Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation; Intrapreneurship; Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy; Employee Work Performance; Extra Role Behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M19 M50 M54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114596

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