İç Girişimcilik Olgusunun Yenilik Yapabilme Becerisine Etkisi: Gaziantep'te Faaliyet Gösteren Yenilikçi Örgütlerde Bir Uygulama

Intrapreneurship is the concept used to describe the entrepreneurial orientation and activities inside existing organization and it has been attracting lots of attention in the field of management in the recent years. Intrapreneurship is a very important factor for innovation activities. The concept of intrapreneurship is defined as ‘the process of developing new products and new markets’, in order to emphasize the relationship between intrapreneurship and innovation. In this context, basic aim of this research is to determine the effects of intrapreneurship level in organizations on innovation capacity and to demonstrate the relationship between intrapreneurship level and innovation activity. This research shows that there is a positive and meaningful relationship between intrapreneurship and innovation; and intrapreneurship has a determining influence on innovation. Also sub-dimensions of intrapreneurship ‘encouragement by management and organization’, ‘individual motivation’, ‘enabling working environment’ and ‘encouragement to innovation’ has a positive and meaningful relationship but ‘transparency, openness and communality’, ‘individual competence’ and ‘development’ has a negative relationship with the innovation capacity in organizations.