Factors affecting the entrepreneurial orientation: A research in Technoparks

Year 2022, Volume: 23 Issue: 1, 143 - 164, 01.06.2022

Osman Akarsu Musa Said Döven

https://doi.org/10.17494/ogusbd.1093800

Cited By: 5

Abstract

In this study, the factors affecting the entrepreneurial orientation were examined by considering the situation of the entrepreneurs in the technoparks of our country. The variables filtered from the Upper Echelon theory were examined by grouping them as individual, organizational, environmental and social status factors, and the variables of age, total experience and education level within the individual variables, the age of enterprise within the organizational variables, and the perceived environmental uncertainty level within the environmental variables. It has been found that there is a statistically significant effect on entrepreneurial orientation. It has been concluded that environmental and social status factors, which are considered as external factors, affect entrepreneurship orientation more than individual and organizational factors considered as internal factors.

Keywords

Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Orientation, Upper Echelon Theory

Girişimcilik Yönelimini Etkileyen Faktörler: Teknoparklarda bir Araştırma

Abstract

Bu çalışmada, girişimcilik yönelimini etkileyen faktörler ülkemiz teknoparklarında yer alan girişimcilerin durumu ele alınarak incelenmiştir. Üst Yönetim Kuramından süzülen değişkenler bireysel, örgütsel, çevresel ve sosyal statü faktörleri olarak gruplandırılarak irdelenmiş ve bireysel değişkenler içerisinde yer alan yaş, toplam deneyim ve eğitim düzeyi, örgütsel değişkenler içerisinde yer alan girişimin kuruluş yaşı ve çevresel değişkenler içerisinde yer alan algılanan çevresel belirsizlik düzeyi değişkenlerinin girişimcilik yönelimi üzerinde istatistiksel açıdan anlamlı etkide bulunduğu ortaya çıkmıştır. Dış faktörler olarak ele alınan çevresel ve sosyal statü faktörleri, iç faktörler olarak değerlendirilen bireysel ve örgütsel faktörlerden daha fazla girişimcilik yönelimini etkilediği sonucuna ulaşılmıştır.

Keywords

Girişimcilik, Girişimcilik Yönelimi, Üst Yönetim Kuramı

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