Differentiating the effects of the institutional environment on corporate entrepreneurship

By S. Gómez-Haro, Juan Alberto Aragón-Correa, Eulogio Cordón-Pozo. 2011

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Purpose – The main purpose of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of how different dimensions of the institutional environment of a region may influence the level of corporate entrepreneurship of firms.Design/methodology/approach – The paper develops the relationship between the institutional environment, differentiated in regulatory, cognitive and normative dimensions, and entrepreneurship in existing firms, corporate entrepreneurship, via a questionnaire study covering 150 firms in Spain.Findings – The relation between institutional environment and corporate entrepreneurship can be distinct. The results show that both the normative and cognitive dimension of the institutional environment influence an organisation's entrepreneurial orientation. They also show that regulatory dimension influences what type of corporate entrepreneurial activity is carried out.Originality/value – Literature about institutional theory and entrepreneurship has been both descriptive and fragmented. This paper...

Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management

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The role of government policy in entrepreneurship development (2014, background): “Furthermore, it is generally acknowledged by numerous scholars that entrepreneurship is the engine of economic development [4, 44, 45].”
Twenty-five years of research on institutions, entrepreneurship, and economic growth: what has been learned? (2019, background): “Some poignant examples of this diversity include: female entrepreneurship (Ahl and Marlow, 2012; Collins and Low, 2010; De Bruin et al., 15 See for instance Gómez-Haro et al. (2011), Ribeiro-Soriano and Urbano (2009), Toledano et al. (2010), Turró et al. (2014), Turro et al. (2016).”
The effect of intrapreneurship on corporate performance (2012, background): “When managers perceive that the institutional environment has a good tolerance for mistakes and risks emerging from innovation, they will be more open to change organisational strategic orientation models into entrepreneurial stances (Gómez-Haro et al., 2011).”
Factors affecting the success of women entrepreneurs (2012, background): “Along the same lines, literature is emerging that supports the argument that both men and women business owners employ the same managerial styles if the situational and contextual variables are similar (Kanter 1997; Gómez-Haro et al. 2011).”