Fertile Soil for Intrapreneurship: Impartial Institutions and Human Capital

Martin Ljunge and Mikael Stenkula

No 1368, Working Paper Series from Research Institute of Industrial Economics

Abstract: Intrapreneurs, entrepreneurial employees, constitute an important force behind innovations in the economy. Yet, what factors that promote intrapreneurship at the country level are an underdeveloped research area. This paper provides a seminal contribution regarding the methodological approach and the broad set of potential explanatory factors studied. Based on machine-learning techniques (LASSO and EBA methods), we investigate the influence of over 60 factors capturing institutional, demographic, cultural, and developmental factors. We find that the quality of government measured as impartiality, i.e., that the political institutions treat the citizens in a non-discriminatory fashion and do not favor some groups or individuals, and the level of human capital, measured as the average years of schooling, are the most important factors predicting the level of intrapreneurship across countries. Instrumental variable results support a causal interpretation. The findings emphasize the importance of policy to establish well-functioning and impartial institutions as well as to promote higher education.

Keywords: Intrapreneurship; Impartial institutions; Human capital; Machine-learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E02 I20 L26 O17 O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2020-11-11
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