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A case study of intrapreneurship obstacles: The RAJA passenger train company

Alireza Feyzbakhsh, S ; Sharif University of Technology | 2008

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1080/08276331.2008.10593420
  3. Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd , 2008
  4. Abstract:
  5. In today's world, people, organizations and countries which have managed to foster successful entrepreneurs and utilize technical science and technology are growing wealthier and more prosperous rather steadily. Entrepreneurs establish new organizations independently while intrapreneurs create new structures within an existing organization. In Iran, huge organizations, which play the most important roles in the country'seconomy, are often run by the government. The main purpose of this research is to study of some prinicipal obstacles hindering intrapreneurial activities in Iran's big organizations. For this purpose, Raja Passenger Trains Company (Raja: I.R.I. Railways) is chosen and observed as an example. Intrapreneurship obstacles have been extracted by using Kuratko's model. The findings of this research show that in the organization under study, changes, modifications, innovations and creative activities occur by chance and unsystematically rather than according to predefined organizational procedures.We first suggest that the key to reach an entrepreneurial organization is the formulation of strategies and goal settings based on intrapreneurship. This could not be done without developing the essential insight around various aspects of intrapreneurship for all managers. © 2008, Copyright CCSBE/CCPME
  6. Keywords:
  7. Corporate entrepreneurship ; Entrepreneurial orientation
  8. Source: Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship ; Volume 21, Issue 2 , 2008 , Pages 171-180 ; 08276331 (ISSN)
  9. URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08276331.2008.10593420