Purpose

This study aims to develop theoretical arguments about the factors promoting nascent intrapreneurship relative to role theory. These arguments principally draw on contributions from interactional and structural sociology. Fixed theoretical tools for intrapreneurship are not quite enough. So, structural and interactionist perspective of sociology is necessary to understand the intrapreneurship concept because intrapreneurs live in a society and shape their course per the expectations of others. Previous approaches depend on individual, organizations or environment to push potential employees to be intrapreneurs. Expectations may be a keystone for intrapreneurship because intrapreneurs have been trying to explain or make progress about what is seen as crucial; more importantly, they learn their roles.

Design/methodology/approach

This is a conceptual paper about explaining intrapreneurship. Foregoing literature has been trying to explain the phenomenon by individual, organizational or environment endeavors to transform employees to be intrapreneurs. Role theory stems from interactional and structural sociology. Promoting the internal entrepreneur process by overcoming resistance to switching to a more structured management approach and adopting management systems and processes in a timely way is still a vague approach. So, the structural and interactionist perspective of sociology is necessary to understand the concept because intrapreneurship is a contextual factor rather than activity.

Findings

Expectations can convey what others consider particularly important or necessary. Intrapreneurship is a type of personal entrepreneur role influenced by expectations.

Practical implications

Intrapreneurship is not solely entrepreneurship in organizations but is also governed by the specific combinations of circumstances generally outside of the organizational environment, such as families, coworkers and friends.

Originality/value

The present paper seeks to answer three primary research questions: how differentiation among subunits changes intrapreneurship role expectations, how the intrapreneurs’ role has been affected from unlike expectations and are group or team-level expectations on intrapreneurs’ roles distinctive than organization and individual levels.

中文翻译：

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组织成员的内部创业行为。概念观点：情境期望如何解释组织中的创业角色？

目的

本研究旨在就促进新生内部创业的因素相对于角色理论展开理论论证。这些论点主要借鉴了互动和结构社会学的贡献。固定的内部创业理论工具还不够。因此，社会学的结构和互动主义视角对于理解内部创业概念是必要的，因为内部创业者生活在一个社会中，并根据他人的期望塑造他们的路线。以前的方法取决于个人、组织或环境来推动潜在员工成为内部创业者。期望可能是内部创业的基石，因为内部创业者一直试图解释被视为至关重要的事情或取得进展；更重要的是，他们学会了自己的角色。

设计/方法/方法

这是一篇关于解释内部创业的概念性论文。前述文献一直试图通过个人、组织或环境努力将员工转变为内部企业家来解释这一现象。角色理论源于互动和结构社会学。通过克服转向更结构化的管理方法的阻力并及时采用管理系统和流程来促进内部企业家流程仍然是一种模糊的方法。因此，社会学的结构和互动主义视角对于理解这个概念是必要的，因为内部创业是一个情境因素而不是活动。

发现

期望可以传达其他人认为特别重要或必要的东西。内部创业是一种受期望影响的个人企业家角色。

实际影响

内部创业不仅是组织中的企业家精神，而且还受组织环境之外的特定环境组合的支配，例如家庭、同事和朋友。

原创性/价值

本论文试图回答三个主要研究问题：亚单位之间的差异如何改变内部创业者角色期望，内部创业者的角色如何受到不同期望的影响，以及团队或团队对内部创业者角色的期望不同于组织和个人层面。