Intrapreneurial Behavior Among University Employees

This book reveal that employees¿ positive deviant engagements are significantly and directly associated with intrapreneurial behavior. Major innovations and transformations rely on positive deviant¿s radical departures from the norm. Experimentation enablement by engaging novelty ecosystems partially mediate the association between positive deviance and intrapreneurial behavior. On the contrary, a full mediation in the associations between informational differences and intrapreneurial behavior. Furthermore, a partial mediation between generative influence and intrapreneurial behavior. Opportunity tension, recognition, evaluation and exploitation by individual employees emerge from individual¿s radical departures from the norm. Therefore, identifying, nurturing and enabling positive deviants is vital. This also suggest that experimentation with learning in mind, networking, interactions and adaptability are key to intrapreneurial behaviour. Mere multiplicative interactions (generative influence) and an enhanced learning from employees and social network agents¿ differences (informational difference) do not automatically guarantee creativity and innovativeness among employees.