WHO IS AN INTRAPRENEUR?

Using a sample that is employed from a special theme study about Entrepreneurial Employee Activity of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2011, this thesis investigates which variables are significantly correlated with an employee’s engagement in intrapreneurial activities. Following existing literature in economics, this study links such an engagement to demographic, economic and organizational characteristics. More specifically, the results show that gender, age, income, education, job function and an employees’ region of residence matter in be(com)ing an intrapreneur. In addition, perceptual variables, such as entrepreneurial self-efficacy and lack of fear of business failure are significantly associated with one’s engagement in intrapreneurial activities. Although the data do not allow the identification of causal relationships and, in particular, a generalization of the results because of the single-country set-up, the results provide some unique insights which contribute to the scarcity of empirical research on intrapreneurship, and thus, to our better understanding of the phenomenon