The Role of Organizational Factors in Enabling, and of Autonomy in Potentializing Intrapreneurial Behavior: Mechanisms and Preconditions

Objective: the study explores the complex interaction between intrapreneurial behavior, organizational factors, and individual characteristics, with a focus on a moderated-mediation model. This model incorporates individual autonomy as a key enhancer and considers organizational elements like time a...

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Main Authors: Alex de Souza Santana, Cristina Dai Prá Martens, Flávio Santino Bizarrias, Mauro Luiz Martens
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Published: Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração (ANPAD) 2025-02-01
Series:BAR: Brazilian Administration Review
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Online Access:https://bar.anpad.org.br/index.php/bar/article/view/696
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author Alex de Souza Santana
Cristina Dai Prá Martens
Flávio Santino Bizarrias
Mauro Luiz Martens
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Flávio Santino Bizarrias
Mauro Luiz Martens
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description Objective: the study explores the complex interaction between intrapreneurial behavior, organizational factors, and individual characteristics, with a focus on a moderated-mediation model. This model incorporates individual autonomy as a key enhancer and considers organizational elements like time availability, managerial support, rewards, and structure as mediating factors. Methods: data were collected through a survey of various companies, and the analysis utilized multivariate statistical methods for analyzing multiple relationships between variables, the PROCESS© macro for mediated moderation, and a complementary approach to find essential factors for an outcome, identifying the critical levels of each construct for promoting intrapreneurial actions. Results: the results demonstrate that organizational factors and autonomy conditionally influence intrapreneurship, establishing essential thresholds for these effects. This study contributes to the intrapreneurship discourse by offering a theoretical framework that integrates both individual and organizational dynamics. It employs a novel mediated-moderation approach to explore their combined impact on intrapreneurial behavior and innovates by identifying the necessary conditions for fostering intrapreneurial activities within this framework. Conclusions: the study concludes that practitioners should focus on enhancing autonomy to maximize the potential contributions of intrapreneurial individuals while also managing organizational factors that create a supportive environment. It provides specific levels of these factors for effective management, offering a comprehensive understanding of how personal and corporate dynamics interact to promote intrapreneurial behavior.
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spelling doaj-art-7e355c5b63834ef9a69bbff937a535322025-08-20T03:51:59ZengAssociação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração (ANPAD)BAR: Brazilian Administration Review1807-76922025-02-01221e240065e24006510.1590/1807-7692bar2025240065696The Role of Organizational Factors in Enabling, and of Autonomy in Potentializing Intrapreneurial Behavior: Mechanisms and PreconditionsAlex de Souza Santana0Cristina Dai Prá Martens1Flávio Santino Bizarrias2Mauro Luiz Martens3Universidade Nove de Julho, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração, São Paulo, SP, BrazilUniversidade Nove de Julho, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração, São Paulo, SP, BrazilEscola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing, São Paulo, SP, BrazilUniversidade Paulista, São Paulo, SP, BrazilObjective: the study explores the complex interaction between intrapreneurial behavior, organizational factors, and individual characteristics, with a focus on a moderated-mediation model. This model incorporates individual autonomy as a key enhancer and considers organizational elements like time availability, managerial support, rewards, and structure as mediating factors. Methods: data were collected through a survey of various companies, and the analysis utilized multivariate statistical methods for analyzing multiple relationships between variables, the PROCESS© macro for mediated moderation, and a complementary approach to find essential factors for an outcome, identifying the critical levels of each construct for promoting intrapreneurial actions. Results: the results demonstrate that organizational factors and autonomy conditionally influence intrapreneurship, establishing essential thresholds for these effects. This study contributes to the intrapreneurship discourse by offering a theoretical framework that integrates both individual and organizational dynamics. It employs a novel mediated-moderation approach to explore their combined impact on intrapreneurial behavior and innovates by identifying the necessary conditions for fostering intrapreneurial activities within this framework. Conclusions: the study concludes that practitioners should focus on enhancing autonomy to maximize the potential contributions of intrapreneurial individuals while also managing organizational factors that create a supportive environment. It provides specific levels of these factors for effective management, offering a comprehensive understanding of how personal and corporate dynamics interact to promote intrapreneurial behavior.https://bar.anpad.org.br/index.php/bar/article/view/696intrapreneurshiporganizational factorsbehavioral intentionsindirect effectsnecessary conditions
spellingShingle Alex de Souza Santana
Cristina Dai Prá Martens
Flávio Santino Bizarrias
Mauro Luiz Martens
The Role of Organizational Factors in Enabling, and of Autonomy in Potentializing Intrapreneurial Behavior: Mechanisms and Preconditions
BAR: Brazilian Administration Review
intrapreneurship
organizational factors
behavioral intentions
indirect effects
necessary conditions
title The Role of Organizational Factors in Enabling, and of Autonomy in Potentializing Intrapreneurial Behavior: Mechanisms and Preconditions
title_full The Role of Organizational Factors in Enabling, and of Autonomy in Potentializing Intrapreneurial Behavior: Mechanisms and Preconditions
title_fullStr The Role of Organizational Factors in Enabling, and of Autonomy in Potentializing Intrapreneurial Behavior: Mechanisms and Preconditions
title_full_unstemmed The Role of Organizational Factors in Enabling, and of Autonomy in Potentializing Intrapreneurial Behavior: Mechanisms and Preconditions
title_short The Role of Organizational Factors in Enabling, and of Autonomy in Potentializing Intrapreneurial Behavior: Mechanisms and Preconditions
title_sort role of organizational factors in enabling and of autonomy in potentializing intrapreneurial behavior mechanisms and preconditions
topic intrapreneurship
organizational factors
behavioral intentions
indirect effects
necessary conditions
url https://bar.anpad.org.br/index.php/bar/article/view/696
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