A study of the relationship between organizational characteristics and intrapreneurship

• Main Authors: Chen Jau-Lin, 陳昭霖
• Other Authors: Peirchyi Lii
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/56491696386141796057

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 管理科學研究所 === 92 === When facing saturated industrial environments, which caused increasing competition and decreasing profit, organizations will have to reconsider and select its survival niche. Furthermore, how to maintain a growing trend becomes an important topic under the intensive globalization development. Since conglomerate possesses abundant resources comparing to single business, organizations are transforming themselves into the pattern of conglomeration in order to maximize their profit. Thus, diversification and conglomeration have become a newly developed pattern for Taiwanese enterprises. The purpose of this study is to explore what organizational characteristics would be related to intrapreneurship which is instrumental to structuring a conglomerate business pattern. Major findings of this study include: 1.Environmental characteristics are significantly related to innovation. Therefore, Taiwanese enterprises pay serious attention to technology development and innovation. The environment characteristic and the innovation has reveals the relations, therefore may understand Taiwan the group enterprise quite takes technical the development and the innovation. 2.Organizational characteristics and environmental characteristics both are significantly related to self- renewal orientation. The relationship is probably caused by the popularity of the concept of organizational change and organizational reengineering in the past. 3.Organizational characteristics and environmental characteristics both are positively related to the proactive construct within intrepreneurship. This is probably because Taiwanese enterprises still preserve the conservative spirit in daily operations. It could also be triggered by the conditions and trends existed in international markets. Being proactive, Taiwanese conglomerate are more flexible than international conglomerate. And because proactive orientation encompasses innovation, it probably reveals that Taiwanese conglomerate perform better in terms of the innovation applications.