TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract Middle managers’ intrapreneurial actions can be a powerful source of organizational adaptation and strategic renewal. Better understanding what drives such intrapreneurial actions is important, yet requires data, which allows testing directional claims. For example, whereas autonomy and supportive leadership might be antecedents to such intrapreneurial behavior, it equally seems possible that firms delegate more autonomy to individuals behaving entrepreneurially (rather than being “lazy”) or that senior managers are more inclined to show support for individuals engaging in entrepreneurial action. Lagged or longitudinal survey evidence to test whether autonomy and leadership support are antecedents of intrapreneurship or consequences, is – like for many other questions in research on strategic responsiveness – hard and expensive to collect. Vignette experiments (also called factorial surveys or conjoint studies) may be a way out – especially when combined with cross-sectional evidence. The present chapter illustrates this approach by studying the relations among autonomy, supportive leadership, and intrapreneurship by means of a vignette experiment and a cross-sectional field survey. The findings suggest that autonomy and supportive leadership are indeed antecedents to intrapreneurial behavior and illustrate the value of vignette experiments for research on strategic responsiveness.
SN  - 978-1-78973-011-1, 978-1-78973-012-8/
DO  - 10.1108/978-1-78973-011-120191004
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-011-120191004
AU  - Linder Stefan
ED  - Torben Juul Andersen
ED  - Simon Torp
ED  - Stefan Linder
PY  - 2019
Y1  - 2019/01/01
TI  - Autonomy and Leadership Support as Antecedents to Intrapreneurship: Value of Vignette Experiments for Research on Strategic Responsiveness
T2  - Strategic Responsiveness and Adaptive Organizations: New Research Frontiers in International Strategic Management
T3  - Emerald Studies in Global Strategic Responsiveness
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 41
EP  - 59
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -