Huang Lan-Ying, Yang Lin Shu-Min, Hsieh Ying-Jiun
Department of Business Administration, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua City, Taiwan.
Graduate Institute of Technology Management, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan.
Front Psychol. 2021 Oct 18;12:731990. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.731990. eCollection 2021.
Intrapreneurship has drawn research attention over the past decades considering its crucial role in innovation, organizational performance, and employee career planning. Intrapreneurial research based on various concepts also emerges. In spite of the increasing concern in the field, contributions in the field are fragmented. Particularly, intrapreneurship research is still lacking an integrated framework based on which, enablers and important facilitating mechanisms can be identified to enhance intrapreneurship. To close the above research gap, the study develops a holistic intrapreneurial framework. Specifically, the study first examines intrapreneurship in relation to other prominent concepts (i.e., innovation, entrepreneurship, and sustainability). This study then identifies enablers of intrapreneurship at both individual and organizational level. Notably, extant research largely examines intrapreneurship either at the organizational or individual level, and concentrates in corporate entrepreneurship or individual intrapreneurial employees. Research providing a holistic perspective on enablers for intrapreneurship is rare. The study further integrates these intrapreneurial enablers with facilitating mechanisms and proposes a framework of intrapreneurship. The framework makes it possible to clearly identify pivotal antecedents to intrapreneurship based on various theoretical lenses and analytical levels applied. Finally, the study addresses a list of managerial and technological challenges arising from the above framework and suggests future research agenda.
在过去几十年中，企业内部创业因其在创新、组织绩效和员工职业规划中的关键作用而受到研究关注。基于各种概念的企业内部创业研究也不断涌现。尽管该领域受到的关注日益增加，但其贡献却较为分散。特别是，企业内部创业研究仍缺乏一个综合框架，基于该框架可以识别促进企业内部创业的因素和重要推动机制。为了弥补上述研究差距，本研究构建了一个全面的企业内部创业框架。具体而言，该研究首先考察了企业内部创业与其他重要概念（即创新、创业和可持续性）之间的关系。然后，本研究识别了个体和组织层面的企业内部创业促进因素。值得注意的是，现有研究大多要么在组织层面要么在个体层面考察企业内部创业，并且集中于公司创业或个体内部创业者。提供关于企业内部创业促进因素的整体视角的研究很少见。该研究进一步将这些企业内部创业促进因素与推动机制相结合，提出了一个企业内部创业框架。该框架使得基于所应用的各种理论视角和分析层面能够清晰地识别企业内部创业的关键前因。最后，该研究探讨了上述框架引发的一系列管理和技术挑战，并提出了未来的研究议程。
