Impact of Environments Condition on Corporate Entrepreneurship and Performance: Empirical study of Iranian SMEs

ABSTRACT Modern business environments have two major features -Complexity and Uncertainty. These two characteristics can affect and create stress for young and small businesses. On one hand, remaining in such a competitive environment requires entrepreneurial capabilities, and on the other hand, aspects of corporate entrepreneurial behavior are also heavily influenced by the nature of their relations with the environment. Additionally, in recent years many more firms are looking to compete in the global market and engage corporate entrepreneurship. Therefore, it is essential to identify and analyze the environmental components.On the other hand, nowadays small and medium size enterprises play key role on economic and social growth and development process. These businesses due to having great share on national gross production, employment and reducing economic problems have crucial importance. Therefore, it is necessary for planners and policy makers to pay specific attention to this issue in order to take duly action for improving such institutes. Select volume sample it was benefit from Morgan sampling table, the number of 240 active small and medium size business managers persons were selected as volume sample, this study tries to find out the effect of Environments components and corporate entrepreneurship and performance in Iranian small and medium enterprises. Results of SEM indicated that environmental factors were effective regarding corporate entrepreneurship and performance

Impact of environmental and organizational factors on emerging corporate entrepreneurship and firm performance: A study of Iranian manufacturing SMEs

Nations such as Iran have suffered due to a kind of historical determinism, and to walk the path that others (developed and developing countries) have trodden is now a challenge. Nevertheless, corporate entrepreneurship is influenced by organization and environmental factors and is regarded as a preventive and progressive factor. Generally, corporate entrepreneurship can highly impact the organizational performance and recognizing the environmental and organizational factors can lead to entrepreneurship development and improving organizational performance. In addition, environmental and organizational factors in addition to impacting organizational performance directly can also use the corporate entrepreneurship and indirectly influence the organizational performance and by recognizing these factors, the organizational performance can be improved. Thus, on this basis and in compliance with the importance of the previously mentioned issue, this research intends to offer a corporate entrepreneurship in small and medium size enterprises in Iran. According to the Iran Statistical Yearbook (2009), there were 14007 small and medium sized enterprises, distributed across nine industries. Accordingly, the stratified sampling technique was employed in the selection of SMEs, which are involved in the manufacturing sector in Iran. In this research, the relationship between environmental and organizational factor with corporate entrepreneurship and the relationship between these variables with organizational performance as well as the mediating role of corporate entrepreneurship and organization performance is studied

Impact of Organization and Environment Components on Corporate Entrepreneurship and Firm Performance: Mediating Role of Corporate Entrepreneurship Exploring on Literature Review

ABSTRACT The corporate entrepreneurship is one of the important concepts that its benefits were remarkable in recent years for a lot of organizations and business institutions such as industry, agriculture and service sectors. It can have a significant impact on organizational performance. In this regard, corporate entrepreneurship facilitates the efforts and activities of organizations related to utilizing competitive advantages and recognizing opportunities and capabilities which are needed for exploitation of those opportunities. The corporate entrepreneurship can be influenced by different environmental and organizational factors that these factors can impact the corporate entrepreneurship development and also organizational performance. Findings revealed that systematic internal, environmental and organizational factors influence the organizational entrepreneurship. In addition, there is a positive and significant relationship between organizational entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship performance

The effects of perceived justice in service recovery on firm reputation and repurchase intention in airline industry

The purpose of this study is to assess the influence of perceived justice on repurchase intention and to examine the moderating role of firm reputation in the relationship between perceived justice and repurchase intention. Data were gathered by means of survey from airline passengers who experienced a service failure and subsequently a service recovery within past one year. The results show the effect of distributive justice on repurchase intention was stronger than procedural and interactional justice. Additionally, hierarchical regression analyses suggested that firm reputation plays a moderating role between perceived justice and repurchase intention in the distributive and interactional justice dimensions. Although, prior research has developed an understanding of the role of firm reputation on behavioral intentions, however, this study additionally examined the role of firm reputation as the moderator in this relationship. Managerial implications of these findings are briefly discussed