Corporate Entrepreneurship: Linking Strategic Roles to Multiple Dimensions of Performance
27 Pages Posted: 28 Feb 2005
Abstract
Using data from a large European financial services firm which engaged in an entrepreneurial initiative to enhance its competitiveness, this paper explores the strategic role of middle managers in the context of corporate entrepreneurship and its link to multiple dimensions of performance. The findings indicate that middle managers' role can be decomposed along four reliable and stable dimensions that are consistent with those suggested by the literature. Building on a stakeholder approach, the paper relates the identified roles to multiple dimensions of performance, namely to financial performance, customer satisfaction and employee satisfaction. Canonical correlation analysis - a useful and powerful method to explore relations among multidimensional variables - indicates a significant but weak relationship.
Keywords: corporate entrepreneurship, strategic roles, middle managers
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