The Relationship between Corporate Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management: The Case of Food Processing Firms in Addis Ababa
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2016-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the results of a survey that aims to explore and
identify the thread between strategic management practices of food processing
companies in Addis Ababa and their corporate entrepreneurship intensity.
Design\methodology: The research followed deductive approach, survey as a strategy, a crosssectional
time horizon and questionnaire as data collection instrument. It also employed
factor analysis (explanatory and confirmatory factor analysis) to analyze the data. Both
primary and secondary data were used to gather data. Primary data were used for data
analysis while the secondary sources of data included extensive review of literature.
Findings: Major findings revealed that most of strategic management practice component (i.e.
locus of planning, planning horizon, strategic control and planning flexibility) has
positive impact on core corporate entrepreneurship dimensions (i.e. innovativeness, proactiveness
and risk taking) whereas some SM dimension (i.e. financial control) has
negative impact on CE dimensions.
Research limitation: The research is temporally and contextually limited to food processing sub
sector specifically in Addis Ababa city only which might limit its generalizability into
other industries, sectors, small, medium, and large-scale business organizations and
other cities and country level as a whole.
Originality/value: As far as the researcher's knowledge is concerned, the absence of similar
empirical studies specifically on the relationship between a firm’s strategic
management practices and its corporate entrepreneurial intensity in Ethiopian context
also motivated the researcher to put his own contribution since Ethiopian manufacturing
sector in not yet well strong as developed countries and need empirical study on this
area.
Key words: Strategic management, corporate entrepreneurship intensity, food processing firms
Paper type: Research paper
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