The Effects of Corporate Entrepreneurship on Organizational Performance: In small and medium leather product manufacturing enterprises in Addis ketema sub city
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2020-06
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A.A.U
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The aim of this study is to examine the effects of five dimensions of corporate entrepreneurship; innovation, risk taking, pro-activeness, competitive aggressiveness and autonomy on organizational performance of small and medium leather and leather product manufacturing enterprises in Addis ketema sub city. The study adopts explanatory research design with quantitative method. The total population of the study is 178 small and medium leather product manufacturing enterprises in Addis ketema sub city which are considered as the population for data collection. Primary data was collected through questionnaire with 5-point Likert scale. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation and regression analysis with the support of statistical software program Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS version 21) for analyses and summarization purposes. The finding of the study correlation and regression result shows that there were positive and significance effect of corporate entrepreneurship dimensions on enterprise performance. Therefore the enterprises should implement all corporate entrepreneur dimensions into their businesses to increase sales growth and profit
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A Thesis Submitted to Addis Ababa University College of Business and Economics, Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Management Specialization in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship
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Corporate entrepreneurship, Small and medium enterprises