University of HoustonENTR 3312

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.

 

ANSWER:

Five stable antecedents of middle-managers' entrepreneurial behavior are as follows :

1. Management support - The willingness of top-level managers to facilitate and promote entrepreneurial behavior, including the championing of innovative ideas and providing the resources people require to take entrepreneurial actions.
2. Work discretion/autonomy - Top-level managers commitment to tolerate failure, provide decision-making latitude and freedom from excessive oversight, and to delegate authority and responsibility to middle-level managers.
3. Rewards/reinforcement - Developing and using systems that reward based on performance, highlight signi?cant achievements, and encourage pursuit of challenging work.
4. Time availability - Evaluating workloads to ensure that individuals and groups have the time needed to pursue innovations and that their jobs are structured in ways that support efforts to achieve short- and long-term organizational goals.
5. Organizational boundaries - Precise explanations of outcomes expected from organizational work and development of mechanisms for evaluating, selecting, and using innovations.