The role of mentoring in developing intrapreneurship: A research in family businesses

The aim of this study is to examine relationships among the intrapreneurship, and mentoring activities at family owned manufacturing business. It is very important that supporting to intrapreneurship activities for the sustainability of family businesses. Therefore, family businesses stationed in Ankara was determined as the population of the research. However, it was not possible to reach the whole of the population, the data were collected by collected by easy sampling method, which is not based on probability sampling technique.. An individual interview was conducted by the researcher to reach the culprits of the 273 family operations (possible leading girls or boys). Within the scope of the findings of the research; demographic characteristics of the participants, descriptive statistics, and structural equality model of the research. A total of 12 hypotheses 4 were supported, 4 were partially supported, 2 were not supported and 2 were not tested. According to the findings and conclusions obtained, it is considered that the crown princesses in the family business have not made an effort to contribute to themselves and their businesses to improve with their intrapreneurship activities and that the mentoring tendency does not have any supporting contribution in this matter.