The Ethics and Social Mission of Workers and their Relationship to Social Intrapreneurship

  1. Esthela Galván-Vela
  2. Victor Mercader
  3. Rafael Ravina-Ripoll
Revista:
Anduli: revista andaluza de ciencias sociales

ISSN: 1696-0270 2340-4973

Año de publicación: 2023

Número: 23

Páginas: 137-157

Tipo: Artículo

Otras publicaciones en: Anduli: revista andaluza de ciencias sociales

Resumen

Intrapreneurship (i.e., entrepreneurship arising within established organizations) is key to the development of the entities that generate it. This is why highly posi-tive results have been attributed to it. This construct has been analyzed for more than three decades; however, social intra-entre-preneurship, which arises from the need of companies to be recognized as entities that generate social value from their mis-sion, still lacks sufficient scientific back-ground. Therefore, for the first time, this study empirically evaluates social mission and business ethics as determinants of so-cial intrapreneurship. A questionnaire was used to gather data from 603 professionals from different Baja, California, and Mexico companies. Among the data analysis tech-niques, descriptive statistics were used to verify the univariate composition of the data, and inferential statistics were used to determine the reliability and validity of the measurement scales. The data indicate a highly significant relationship between cor-porate social mission and social intrapre-neurship; however, the data indicate that business ethics is not related to acts of so-cial intrapreneurship.

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