Abstract:
Despite the unwavering research that measures corporate entrepreneurship and its
consequences, such as firm performance, strategic management, and market
performance, minimal studies have explored the antecedents of corporate
entrepreneurship, especially the ones that relate to the environment and other
related organisational factors, that will ultimately drive increased positive
consequential outcomes. Therefore, this study developed a model that examines the
moderating role of transformational leadership (organisational factor) to the
relationship between environmental turbulence (antecedent), its subdimensions, and
corporate entrepreneurship. The subdimensions of environmental turbulence were
argued to be market turbulence, technological turbulence, and competitive intensity.
This study operated on a central theory that argued that transformational leadership
moderates the positive relationship between environmental turbulence, its
subdimensions, and corporate entrepreneurship. It used survey data from a sample
of 156 individuals working in organisations within the South African market across
different industries for analysis. The bivariate, stepwise hierarchal linear regression
analysis found that transformational leadership does indeed significantly moderate
the positive relationship between (1) environmental turbulence and corporate
entrepreneurship, (2) market turbulence and corporate entrepreneurship, (3)
technological turbulence and corporate entrepreneurship, and (4) competitive
intensity and corporate entrepreneurship, with varying strengths.
