Adapting corporate entrepreneurship assessment instrument for Romania

• Main Authors: Cristian Vizitiu, Alexandru Agapie, Robert Paiusan, Shahrazad Hadad, Marian Nastase
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: AOSIS 2018-06-01
• Series: South African Journal of Business Management
• Subjects: corporate entrepreneurship; psychometric instrument; CEAI; cross-cultural portability; factor analysis; emerging economies
• Online Access: https://sajbm.org/index.php/sajbm/article/view/8

Background: The study adapts the corporate entrepreneurship assessment instrument (CEAI), a notable North American psychometric instrument used to evaluate entrepreneurial culture, and investigates its construct validity scale, taking into account that psychometric instruments have limited cross-cultural portability.   Objectives: We aim at identifying the perceived internal management key factors in the Romanian entrepreneurial culture (private sector) and applying CEAI to emergent economies.   Method: The corporate entrepreneurship assessment instrument uses a 48-item Likert scale questionnaire to collect information from a large sample of employees working in different companies. The questions, seen as random variables, are then factor analysed in order to get a reduced more manageable structure. Factors are finally interpreted with respect to the entrepreneurial propensity of the business sector in study. The software used for statistical analysis was SPSS.   Results: The survey conducted on 175 professionals from Romanian technology-based companies yielded a 10-factor structure for this particular business environment: reinforcement and work discretion, dynamic environment and decreased formalisation, delegation, time availability, strategic awareness, management support, stress, vertical communication, horizontal communication and knowledge sharing.   Conclusion: The study provides a thorough understanding of the Romanian post-communist corporate culture, and, together with a similar analysis recently performed in South Africa, aims to create a clearer picture of cross-cultural portability of entrepreneurship psychometric instruments.