In our text, Corporate Innovation: Disruptive Thinking in Organizations, Chapter 7, page 214, the author describe the result of a survey that suggested that there are five stable antecedents of middle-managers' entrepreneurial behavior.

Describe and explain each antecedent.

IMPORTANT: Your answer to each component (i.e., 1-5) should be brief yet complete. Your answers should be college level or business level composition.

 

Answer:

The results from the studies showed that there were five consistent records of entrepreneurial behavior of managers. What are the following:

The precedents are as follows and their interpretation:

1 Top management support (the preparation of top managers, including the promotion of new ideas and the provision of tools for people to take entrepreneurial action, to encourage and promote entrepreneurial conduct));

2 Job discretion / autonomy (top management tolerance of failure, freedom of decision-making and unnecessary control, and authority

3 rewards / strengthenings (development and development)Using performance-based programs that highlight important accomplishments.

4 resource quality (assessment of the workload) Encouraging difficult work

Make sure that people and organisations have the ability to innovate and work

are designed to promote short-term and long-term organizational objectives.

5- organizational constraints (precise examples of planned results)

Organizational research and development of evaluation, collection and use mechanisms.

The author of Corporate Innovation: Disruptive Thinking in Organizations highlights the importance of their findings

Managers who receive information from senior managers concerning their status regarding the five histories and then communicate this information effectively to managers at the operational level. The implicit knowledge of effective entrepreneurial actions of managers is important for these activities and offers a competitive advantage for them to surface.