The factors affecting organizational commitment of intrapreneurs:Entrepreneurs' characteristics and intrapreneurial climate

Primary aim of this PhD thesis is, to draw attention to the problem of keeping the intrapreneurial employees within the organization, which is a necessity for big firms in the global competitive conditions of our world that is constantly changing and evolving, and to supply clues that are necessary for companies to not to lose this entrepreneur personnel, by way of testing the factors over our sampling, that are affecting their entrepreneurial intents or their organizational commitments. In this context, questionnaires that are composed of questions aimed to assess the entrepreneurial characteristics, intrapreneurial climate characteristics, organizational commitment, and entrepreneurial intentions were sent to white collar employees and employees in management positions at 68 firms within the borders of İstanbul Province, that have at least 250 employees and more; 290 of such individuals replied; and 272 of this feedback are included in the analysis in this study. Regression analysis is used to test the research hypotheses. The research results stated that entrepreneurial characteristics such as innovativeness, risk taking and need for independence are affecting the entrepreneurial intent of the employee positively, need for independence and intrapreneurial climate features such as fair reward, tolerance for risk and impact characteristics are affecting the organizational commitment positively; and finally that the organizational commitment is affecting intrapreneurial intent negatively.