Vol. 4 No. 3 (2016): BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT STUDIES: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
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THE IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL SLACK IN ORGANIZATIONS ON ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION

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  • Nurdan Gürkan,
  • Ahmet Ferda Çakmak
Nurdan Gürkan
Bülent Ecevit Üniversitesi, İİBF, İşletme Bölümü
Ahmet Ferda Çakmak
Bülent Ecevit Üniversitesi

Published 2016-12-26

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THE IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL SLACK IN ORGANIZATIONS ON ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION. (2016). Business & Management Studies: An International Journal, 4(3), 341-365. https://doi.org/10.15295/bmij.v4i3.174

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THE IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL SLACK IN ORGANIZATIONS ON ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION. (2016). Business & Management Studies: An International Journal, 4(3), 341-365. https://doi.org/10.15295/bmij.v4i3.174

Abstract

The concept of entrepreneurial orientation, which emerges with the development of strategic management, refers to entrepreneurship orientations of businesses. The businesses need resources in other words organizational slack in order to develop their entrepreneurial trends. The organizational slack consists of three slack type. These slack types are available slack, recoverable slack and potential slack. The purpose of this study is to examine whether organizational slack in the businesses has an effect on entrepreneurial orientation. The relationship between organizational slack and entrepreneurial orientation was investigated through 20 companies that were traded in Borsa Istanbul Corporate Governance Index for 2010-2014 period using panel data analysis method. The results of the study indicate the existence of a statistically significant relationship between and the available slack and the recoverable slack with the entrepreneurial orientation in the businesses. According to findings; there was no statistically significant relationship between potential slack and entrepreneurial orientation.

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