Kurumsal girişimcilik ve inovasyon arasindaki ilişki ve dönüşümcü liderliğin düzenleyici etkisi

Innovation has one of the most important activities for ensuring competitiveness and development which results in sustainable economic growth. Innovation is encouraged by corporate entrepreneurship which challenges bureaucracy and promotes entrepreneurial behaviors within an organization. Corporate entrepreneurial environment is the stimulator of innovation within large companies through development of new opportunities, renewing processes, implementation of new methods, and exploitation of the new products or services. In this study, the relationship between innovation and factors such as top management support, work discretion/autonomy, time availability, organizational boundaries, and rewards/reinforcements, which are covered within the scope of corporate entrepreneurial factors, are examined. In addition, the moderation effect of transformational leadership in the relationship between corporate entrepreneurial factors and innovation is investigated. For this purpose, survey data collected from 135 unit level managers of a large defense and aviation company are examined by regression analysis. Contrary to the corporate entrepreneurship literature, no significant relationship between innovation and the corporate entrepreneurial factors have been found by this research. Moreover, a significant moderating effect of transformational leadership on the relationship between corporate entrepreneurial factors and innovation has not been found.