The effect of intrapreneurship on social entrepreneurship in family owned business: A research in Afyonkarahisar

Intrapreneurship is described as the entrepreneurship efforts of the businesses already in action and it is claimed that intrapreneurship has positive impacts on organisations and gives some opportunations them such as strategically renewal and obtaining sustainable competitive advantages. On the other hand in the most general definition social entrepreneurship is described as activities of innovative social value creation in non-profit, for-profit and public sector, accordingly making huge contribution to the businesses sustainability. In that regard that for-profit businesses those shaping their basic strategies through the needs and expectations of the society, making effort to create economical and social added value would obtain more accomplishment in the future. This study aims to investigate the descriptive effects of the intrapreneurship activities in family owned business over social entrepreneurship tendency. The fundamental of intrepreneurship dimensions are evaluated as "innovativeness, risk taking and proactiveness" in the study. Social entrepreneurship dimensions are analyzed under the contexts as "having social mission and social vision, creating social value, recognition the opportunities of social entrepreneurship, innovativeness, resource acquisition, sustainability and using social networks" as well. In addition, an emphirically research has been realised in application section to specify the intrepreneurship level of family owned businesses and to identify the impact of intrepreneurship activities over social entrepreneurship tendency performing in the city of Afyonkarahisar. The data used in the study was collected via a survey containing information of the 203 family owned businesses which have at least 10 or more employees. Analysis results show that there is a smooth descriptive impact for intrepreneurship activities in the family owned business through the social entrepreneurship tendencies. Accordingly, there are obvious positive and meaningful correlations between social entrepreneurship's dimensions and intrapreneurship's dimensions such as innovation, risk taking and proactiveness. Key Words: Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship, Family Owned Business