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Organizational entrepreneurship and the organizational performance linkage in university extension

Fox, Julie M
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1133286266

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2005, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Agricultural Education.
Entrepreneurial actions are viewed as critical pathways to improved performance in organizations of all types, sizes, and ages. Within the growing body of literature there is a need to investigate entrepreneurship in order to provide theoretical and practical applications for existing organizations. This study examined the relationship between Organizational Entrepreneurship and Organizational Performance within the Cooperative Extension System, a national educational network extending the research-based knowledge of land-grant colleges and universities. This study measured both Entrepreneurial Orientation, based on Covin and Slevin’s scale (1989), and Entrepreneurial Management, based on a scale developed by Brown, Davidsson, and Wiklund (2001) that operationalized Stevenson’s (1983) conceptualization of entrepreneurship as a set of opportunity-based management practices. Extension Directors in the United States and territories were invited to respond to a questionnaire, reporting on Organizational Entrepreneurship and Organizational Performance based on both financial and non-financial indictors. Seventy percent of the Extension directors responded and results were aggregated by regional categories. Substantial Organizational Entrepreneurship was evident in Extension organizations in all four region. This study measured Organizational Performance based on a five year funding trend, as well as on non-financial indicators through a Performance Satisfaction index. Results from multivariate data analysis indicated that risk taking and tenure accounted for the highest relative contribution to the dependent variable Performance Satisfaction. Strategic orientation and risk taking accounted for the highest relative contribution to the dependent variable, percent change in total funding. As Extension organizations nationwide address more diverse audiences, an increasingly complex funding mix, and rapidly evolving technologies, the field of entrepreneurship offers principles to continuously improve performance. This study contributed to the field of entrepreneurship and to organizational development in university Extension.
Joseph Gliem (Advisor)
193 p.
Business Administration, General
entrepreneurship

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  • Fox, J. M. (2005). Organizational entrepreneurship and the organizational performance linkage in university extension [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1133286266

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Fox, Julie. Organizational entrepreneurship and the organizational performance linkage in university extension. 2005. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1133286266.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Fox, Julie. "Organizational entrepreneurship and the organizational performance linkage in university extension." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1133286266

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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