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    The Mediating Role of Innovative Work Behaviors between Intraprenuerial Climate and Organizational Innovatiness: An Empiricial Study
    (2011) Samur, Seray Begüm; Bulut, Çağrı
    Increasing competitiveness both in global and domestic markets has made both academicians and firms to explore how to create and sustain a climate and culture of success. Therefore, corporate entrepreneurship (intraprenuership) and its innovative consequences have been primary study areas.The literature on intrapreneurship and organizational innovativeness has focused on the managerial competencies and managerial tools to achieve effective managerial systems leading successful innovative ideas. However, the work behaviors of employees who are the essence of organizations and the main actors of creativity and innovative ideas and /or projects have not been studied separately. In the literature there are five managerial tools that are needed to support an innovation oriented intrapreneurial climate; namely (1) management support, (2) time availability, (3) individual freedom and autonomy, (4) reward availability/reinforcement (5) management?s and employees? absorption capacity of risk.In this respect; this study aims to find how to innovative work behaviors mediate the performance impacts of intrapreneurship. As to the contribution of this study to the current literature, it took innovative work behaviors of employees with its multidimensional structure of idea generation, idea promotion and idea realization to the center as a mediator factor between intrapreneurial climate and firms? performance especially. Beside the innovative work behaviors, the interaction effect of both civic virtue as one of the promotive- affiliative types of employee behavior seeking to preserve the ongoing system and the manipulation tools of change on the frequency occurrence of innovative types of behaviors were in the focus.In order to evaluate the added value of these types of behaviors, performance was measured both by qualitative and quantitative aspects so innovative, new product, manufacturing and financial criteria were selected upon which the effects of innovative work behaviors were explored.The final sample of this study which based on the deep literature review of corporate entrepreneurship, innovation and organizational citizenship behaviors, includes 199 respondents from 45 different firms from three organized industrial zones located in İzmir and Agean Free Zone without any industrial limitations. The respondents of this study were the employees? of manufacturing firms from all hierarchical levels.The results of regression analyses indicate that intrapreneurial climate dimensions of management support and reward availability together with civic virtue are strong drivers of Innovative Work Behaviors (IWBs), these types of behaviors are also effective instruments for the Innovative Performance of the firms which lead to effective functioning of the organization in terms of manufacturing, new product and financial aspects.Key words: Intrapreneurial climate, innovative work behavior, innovative