The impact of corporate entrepreneurship culture on the quality of interventions by market systems development organisations. a case of AgroBiz.
Year: 2019
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Corporate entrepreneurship is the process by which organisations create value through \nintroduction of new products, services or processes to ensure competitive advantage. Whilst \nentrepreneurship is such an important subject and crucial for organisational performance, most \nmarket systems development (MSD) organisations have not adopted an entrepreneurial posture \nin their quest to transform market systems to work better for the poor. The MSD programmes rely \nlargely on the technical skills of staff within the Project Facilitation Unit (PFU) of development \norganisations. The objective of this study was to explore and understand the role and impact of \ncorporate entrepreneurship in MSD organisations. The study was conducted at AgroBiz, in \nMozambique. AgroBiz had a total of 20 employees (the population). Since the population size \nwas small, a census survey technique was adopted for the quantitative study, followed by a snow \nball volunteer sampling technique for the qualitative part of the study. The survey was conducted \nonline using Google Forms and the qualitative study was undertaken using telephonic structured \ninterviews. Data analysis was computed using Microsoft Excel and Statistical Package for the \nSocial Sciences (SPSS) and the results were presented in the form of charts, tables and figures. \nThe qualitative part of the study was analysed using the Grounded theory method. It was found \nthat the organisation had a mechanistic structure, characterised by bureaucracy and rigid \ndecision-making control. Even though the level of entrepreneurship was 10 out of 15, other \nstrategic factors such as resource (or capital) availability, leadership and management support \nand decision-making control were found to be the main barriers to entrepreneurial behaviours. It \nwas recommended that the leadership ought to focus on addressing key variables that prohibit \nentrepreneurship. Future research should identify the key skills that are required by leadership to \neffectively develop an entrepreneurial team. There is also an opportunity for academics to identify \nwhether the business model of MSD organisations influences how entrepreneurial the individual \nemployees can be. Lastly, there is need to explore the Hoselitz’s theory further to understand the \nrole of the individual’s socio-economic class on entrepreneurial behaviour.
Author: Caiphas. Muyambo
Language: English
Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3027615434