TY - CHAP
T1 - The Role of Employee’s Human Capital and the Work Environment on the Creation of Organizational Spin-Offs
T2 - Evidence from Spain
AU - Alrumaithi, Eissa
AU - Guerrero, Maribel
AU - Peña, Iñaki
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments A previous version of this paper was presented at the 2013 RENT Conference that took place at the University of Management and Economics in Vilnius, Lithuania on November 20–22. We are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their helpful and constructive comments. Maribel Guerrero and Iñaki Peña acknowledge the funding received from Global Entrepreneurship Research Association (GERA), Basque Ministry of Education, Basque Government and SPRI Group (Saiotek 2012–2013).
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© 2015, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Previous studies have recognized the relevance of certain individual (generic and specific human capital) and organizational (work environment) factors in the creation of new ventures from and for an existing organization. The objective of this exploratory study is to understand the roles of employee human capital and the work environment on the creation of organizational spin-offs. Adopting the human capital and the corporate entrepreneurship approaches, a conceptual framework was proposed and tested with data from the 2012 Spanish Adult Population Survey (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, GEM). Due to the nature of the data and research objective, a rare event model was used for the analysis. Our results provide evidence about the relevant roles of specific human capital (entrepreneurship educational training) and the work environment (job autonomy) on the propensity that an employee becomes an intrapreneur and leads a spin-off “from” and “for” their employer. We also show that a stronger moderation effect of job autonomy takes place in the relationship between entrepreneurship education and organizational spin-off creation. In general, these results would help employees, top managers, and policy makers take into account the relevance of these individual and organizational factors when defining their strategic decisions/planning.
AB - Previous studies have recognized the relevance of certain individual (generic and specific human capital) and organizational (work environment) factors in the creation of new ventures from and for an existing organization. The objective of this exploratory study is to understand the roles of employee human capital and the work environment on the creation of organizational spin-offs. Adopting the human capital and the corporate entrepreneurship approaches, a conceptual framework was proposed and tested with data from the 2012 Spanish Adult Population Survey (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, GEM). Due to the nature of the data and research objective, a rare event model was used for the analysis. Our results provide evidence about the relevant roles of specific human capital (entrepreneurship educational training) and the work environment (job autonomy) on the propensity that an employee becomes an intrapreneur and leads a spin-off “from” and “for” their employer. We also show that a stronger moderation effect of job autonomy takes place in the relationship between entrepreneurship education and organizational spin-off creation. In general, these results would help employees, top managers, and policy makers take into account the relevance of these individual and organizational factors when defining their strategic decisions/planning.
KW - Corporate entrepreneurship
KW - Corporate venturing
KW - Human capital
KW - Organizational environment
KW - Organizational spin-off
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-12871-9_4
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-12871-9_4
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85077033332
T3 - International Studies in Entrepreneurship
SP - 59
EP - 74
BT - International Studies in Entrepreneurship
PB - Springer
ER -