Intrapreneurial Characteristics of NGOs in Turkey


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TOPLU D., Temelli U. E., AYDINLIK A. U.

The International Journal of Business & Management, sa.5, ss.185-190, 2017 (Hakemli Dergi)

Özet

Entrepreneurship is defined as an innovative activity performed by utilizing available resources. Entrepreneurial activities

carried out in an existing business defined as intrapreneurship. In recent years, intrapreneurship practices have become an

important issue for public and private-sector institutions in development and implementation of new ideas. It is believed that

non-governmental organizations also need intrapreneurship practices in order to achieve success, reach their goals and in

order to be able to be sustain their activities, like profit-oriented enterprises, they need to carry intrapreneurship

characteristics. Based on this point, the Corporate Entrepreneurship Assessment Instrument (CEAI) scale, developed by

Hornsby, Kuratko and Zahra (2002), has been adopted to Turkish and measured whether the intrapreneurship activities

exists in non-governmental organizations.