Factors that promote corporate entrepreneurship within the First Rand Bank

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dc.contributor.advisor Adonisi, Mandla en
dc.contributor.postgraduate Chaka, Christopher Tshepo en
dc.date.accessioned 2013-09-06T15:42:34Z
dc.date.available 2010-06-22 en
dc.date.available 2013-09-06T15:42:34Z
dc.date.created 2007-04-06 en
dc.date.issued 2006 en
dc.date.submitted 2010-03-30 en
dc.description Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2006. en
dc.description.abstract The environment in which a business operates is not static. Intensifying global competition and rapid technological progress put pressure on business to change. Better quality and service are no longer enough to give a competitive advantage. This can be achieved by entrepreneurial organisations. Through corporate entrepreneurship, an organisation can improve its competitive standing. This research aims to identify the factors that promote corporate entrepreneurship in First Rand Bank. The Corporate Entrepreneurship Assessment Instrument (CEAI) developed by Hornsby, Kuratko and Zahra (2002) was used to measure corporate entrepreneurship (CE). The instrument contains 48 Likert-style questions that were believed to assess a firm’s internal entrepreneurial environment. Data were gathered from 186 respondents representing the three divisions of a large bank.The results showed that although corporate entrepreneurship exists in First Rand Bank, it is not supported by a clear strategy. Employees do not have time to engage meaningfully in CE. New and young employees in particular do not believe CE is promoted to the same extent as those employees that have been in the organisation longer. en
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dc.description.department Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) en
dc.identifier.citation Chaka, CT 2006, Factors that promote corporate entrepreneurship within the First Rand Bank, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23618 > en
dc.identifier.other G10/203/ag en
dc.identifier.upetdurl http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03302010-123216/ en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23618
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher University of Pretoria en_ZA
dc.rights © 2006 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria en
dc.subject UCTD en_US
dc.subject Entrepreneurship en
dc.title Factors that promote corporate entrepreneurship within the First Rand Bank en
dc.type Dissertation en


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