Abstract:
Organisational trust has shown to have a net positive effect on innovation however
limited research exists on the interaction effect of organisational trust between
entrepreneurial leadership and developing a corporate entrepreneurial environment.
The quantitative cross-sectional research study was conducted on sample
population (N=393) within the technical and engineering operational business unit of
a large petrochemical organisation. Statistical analysis was conducted on the N=71
responses to confirm reliability, validity, ability to be factorised and thereafter
regression analysis to test the hypotheses. The results of the statistical analysis
confirm a positive relationship between organisational trust and entrepreneurial
leadership, organisational trust and a corporate entrepreneurial environment, and,
entrepreneurial leadership and a corporate entrepreneurial environment. The
interaction variable did not prove statistically significant and a corporate
entrepreneurial environment could not be proved to predict entrepreneurial
leadership. The research findings confirm the positive meta-cognitive effect of
organisational trust on entrepreneurial leadership and a corporate entrepreneurial
environment. Due to the low response rate the research cannot be regarded as
generalisable.
