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Academic Entrepreneurship. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Jan 2009, Pages: 124
The academic literature is replete with evidence of
the positive benefits associated with nurturing and
maintaining an intrapreneurial culture within
organizations. However, there is a gap in the
literature as to the role intrapreneurship plays
within academic institutions, which have historically
been reticent to foster and embrace intrapreneurial
activity. This study segments the professorate into
two groups: Academic entrepreneurs and traditional
faculty members, and captures the perceptions of each
group relative to the pay, co-worker, supervisor,
opportunity, work, and job-in-general dimensions of
job satisfaction using the Abridged Job Descriptive
Index and Abridged Job-in-General scales. The author
defines academic entrepreneurship as engaging in the
process of creating and exploiting new opportunities
from within the confines of an academic institution.
ANOVA was utilized to determine if there were
statistically significant differences in the
aforementioned dimensions of job satisfaction between
academic entrepreneurs and traditional faculty. The
findings reveal that 42.5% of respondents view
themselves as academic entrepreneurs.
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