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Increasing globalization and dynamism in the economy has made it necessary for established
companies to regenerate themselves and renew their ability to compete, this is the goal of
corporate entrepreneurship activities, which involves extending the firm’s domain of competence
and corresponding opportunity set, through internally generated new resource combination.
Innovation human capital in Ethiopia is still not on par for global competitiveness. The purpose
of this study is to determine the relationship & effects of determinants of corporate
entrepreneurship in the corporate entrepreneurship of commercial bank of Ethiopia. Specifically,
this study examines the relationship among antecedents of corporate entrepreneurship with
corporate entrepreneurship. The study employed both primary and secondary data were collected
through the use of questionnaire administered to selected employees of commercial bank of
Ethiopia in different level of management. A sample of 314 employees amongst commercial bank
of Ethiopia employees were participants in this study. The sample originated from various
demographic background. The findings were tested using various statistical techniques such as
reliability analysis, descriptive statistics, and correlation regression analysis. The results of the
analysis showed that there is a relation and significant effect between corporate entrepreneurship
factors and corporate entrepreneurship of the organization. Corporate entrepreneurship was
significantly and positively influenced by work discretion and management support at 0.05
significant level. However reward and reinforcement, time availability, and organizational
boundaries had insignificant effect with corporate entrepreneurship activities. Managers should
also ensure better management of knowledge by means of documenting and disseminating
knowledge internally, this will provide employees with the tools to innovate, furthermore,
employees should be assigned a greater degree of discretionary decision making thereby
empowering employee. Empowerment of employees will further be enhanced by creating a culture
of trust, lastly, managers need to actively support the learning process of employees, for purposes
of skills development. |
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