An Investigation of the Relationship between Organizational Entrepreneurship and Learning Organization’s Features

Abstract

Entrepreneurship is the thought and process of the creation and development of economic activities through the ability to blend risk taking, creativity, and/or innovation with sound management within an existing organization or a new enterprise. One of the effective and strong factors influencing organizational entrepreneurship is the rate of organizational learning. The main purpose of the present research is to investigate the relationship between learning organization’s features and organizational entrepreneurship within the private banks of the west of Mazandaran province. The statistical population of the study includes 600 staff members of the private banks of the west of Mazandaran Province, from among whom 224 were selected as the research sample. The data were collected through the use of a questionnaire. Data analysis was done by SPSS and LISREL softwares. Results showed that the relationship between organizational learning and organizational entrepreneurship is positive and significant. Also, a positive and significant relationship was found between the dimensions of learning organization and organizational entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs keep pace with changes and attempt to discover and benefit from the opportunities created in the process of these changes. Moving along with changes calls for an appropriate cultural context and the existence of a higher level of individual and organizational learning that values and welcomes change.

Keywords

• learning organization
• organizational entrepreneurship
• private banks
• structural equation model