The aim of the chapter is to provide practitioners and researchers, who wish to investigate academic entrepreneurship in details, with the basic characteristics of the phenomenon as an introduction to further exploration. As university entrepreneurship is rooted in the broader entrepreneurship theory, the investigation encompassed a set of definitions, types, and processes pertaining to both in...

From the knowledge-based view, an organization is considered an entity that integrates and distributes knowledge to produce products and services. Knowledge is acknowledged as a sustainable basis of competitive advantage that many organizations possess. Entrepreneurial activity also has been viewed as an essential feature for organizations to survive and prosper in today’s turbulent environment...

with the entry of god and spirituality into areas of organization and management, as the challenge of the twenty-first century, managers and leaders of organizations, especially educational institutions must deal with new phenomena. therefore the purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between spirituality leadership and organizational entrepreneurship from view point o...

identifying the factors affecting entrepreneurship has always been one of the concerns of scientists. the emphasis has been changed from external and hard factors to internal and hard drives. accordingly, the present paper will investigate the effect of social capital on organizational entrepreneurship with the moderating role of job motivation. this paper, from objective point of view and type...

One of the most important factors affecting organizational effectiveness is organizational culture and entrepreneurship. The aim of the present study was to determine the relationship of organizational culture and corporate entrepreneurship with effectiveness in offices of sport and youth in Golestan Province. Research method was correlation and the statistical population included all directors...

While early neoinstitutional studies did not explicitly tackle the issue of agency, more recent studies about institutional entrepreneurship have brought it to the forefront. Institutional entrepreneurship has been presented as a promising way to account for institutional change endogenously. However, this notion faces the paradox of embedded agency. To overcome this paradox, it is necessary to...

This article attempts to extract and integrate the knowledge generated by practitioners engaged in Corporate Entrepreneurship experiments. Relying on fifteen case studies, it identifies and discusses the three key dimensions of their “theory-of-action”: autonomy, motivation and resource discipline. It argues for the inclusion of a fourth dimension – institutionalization – if Corporate Entrepren...

There are considerable debates about the existence, nature, and application of entrepreneurship within the public sector. The present survey analyzes the application of entrepreneurship in Iranian public sector organizations. For this purpose, the situation of entrepreneurship within the head offices of Iranian public service organizations was considered. Also, based on McKeinsy and Daft’s fram...