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Introduction
For organizations to successfully adapt to a rapidly changing environment, the capabilities that will capture and commercialize opportunities for new businesses are being considered as core resources for achieving competitive power (Gawke et al., 2017; Sinha and Srivastava, 2015). Thus, organizations have begun to pay attention to entrepreneurship as a motivating force that is fundamental to building and growing startup enterprises. If entrepreneurship could be drawn into organizations and internalized, they would overcome the threatening issues that they currently face in the turbulent business environment.
Studies of entrepreneurship have been conducted up to this time to determine the critical factors that lead to the discovery and realization of business opportunities (Pérez-López et al., 2016). Recently, as the interest in entrepreneurship has increased, the concepts of entrepreneurship are being expanded into the previously considered unrelated area of business ownership. That is, studies have been diversified beyond startup firms and into existing organizations (e.g. Boon et al., 2013), in-company venture teams (e.g. Dushnitsky and Lavie, 2010), and joint ventures (e.g. Espinosa and Suanes, 2011).
The present study focuses particularly on intrapreneurship. Intrapreneurship is an entrepreneurship that is fulfilled inside existing organizations (Antoncic and Hisrich, 2001; Douglas and Fitzsimmons, 2013), which is sometimes also called corporate entrepreneurship (Burgers and Covin, 2016; Dess et al., 2003). It involves innovation, venturing, and strategic renewal activities for growth and revitalization in mature organizations (Ling et al., 2008; Sinha and Srivastava, 2015).
However, the studies which have examined intrapreneurship in existing organizations are still insufficient. Furthermore, the limited number of studies does not reflect the accumulated outcomes of the preceding studies of entrepreneurship. For instance, the literature indicates that psychological temperaments of business founders are an important antecedent that affects entrepreneurship (Leutner et al., 2014; Zhao et al., 2010). Nevertheless, the follow-up studies which examined the strength of association between psychological traits and intrapreneurship are quite scarce. To supplement this evident research gap, it is necessary to explore which dimensions of personality could boost intrapreneurship.
Based on the previous research, the hypothesized research model in this study was developed to include career adaptability as a mediator of the relation between employees’ personalities and intrapreneurship. Career adaptability is a contemporary competence where employees utilize resources...