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    An Assessment on the level of Intrapreneurship and Level of Organizational Support for Intrapreneurship (With Reference to Software Development Sector in Sri Lanka)
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2013) Asangika, R.M.T.
    The purpose of this study was to assess the level of organizational support for entrepreneurship and assess the level of entrepreneurship by identifying the differences of the level of entrepreneurship in terms of organizational support in Software development sector in Sri Lanka. To carry out the study, 42 of Sri Lanka Association of Software Industry (SLASI) registered companies have selected and the results implies that both of organizational support and entrepreneurship are at the moderate levels in the industry. The findings also verify that there are differences on level of entrepreneurship in terms of all organizational supporting factors except level of organizational structure and boundaries dimension. In accordance to the findings of the study it stimulates some important suggestions to develop the entrepreneurship environment in software development industry with a high level of organizational support for entrepreneurship. The research also provides directions to future researches by giving guidelines to perform future researches in wider background.
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    Organizational Support and Intrapreneurship: A Study with reference to Software Development Industry in Sri Lanka
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2013) Asangika, R.M.T.; Weerakoon, W.M.P.G.C.
    Intrapreneurship is also known as corporate entrepreneurship and corporate venturing (Burgelman, 1983; Burgelman, 1984; MacMillan et al., 1986) and it is the practice of developing a new venture within an existing organization to exploit a new opportunity and create economic value (Pinchot, 1985). More specifically, this refers to both creation of new ventures within existing organizations and transformation of these organizations through innovation and strategic renewal. There are evidences that intrapreneurship helps managers to renew and revitalize their businesses, to innovate, and to enhance their overall business performance (Kuratko et al., 1990, Antoncic and Hisrich, 1990). Organizational support is of greater importance for intrapreneurship since the organizational supportive environment, as an internal climate factor is described as a facilitator for organizations to spur organizational entrepreneurial activities (Miller and Friesen, 1982). Previous researchers have found that the organizational support plays a major role for the accomplishment of intrapreneurship (Lutfihak et al., 2010). Large number of Sri Lankan patents has been secured by the software industry according to the Intellectual Property Rights Office in Sri Lanka. Further, Meyer (2003) argues that the software development sector has many entrepreneurial opportunities and they have exploited those entrepreneurial opportunities by using their employees’ ideas and by using the commitment of employees. Accordingly, the first objective was to assess the level of intrapreneurship and the level of organizational support for intrapreneurship in software development sector in Sri Lanka. Second objective was to identify whether there are differences of the level of intrapreneurship in terms of organizational support. Methodology The population of this study was software development firms which have got registered in Sri Lanka Association of Software Industry (SLASI). Further, there are 70 software companies which have got registered under SLASI and the aim was to study the whole population. However, only 42 firms responded making a response rate of 60%. Data was collected by using a structured questionnaire. In addition, Cronbach Alpha reliability test was employed to assess the validity of the questionnaire. Thus, organizational support was measured by using Corporate Entrepreneurship Assessment Instrument developed by Kuratko et al. (1990), which has shown reliability level of 0.88in the study context. The questionnaire items to measure intrapreneurship developed by the researcher have shown a reliability level of 0.89 confirming that these levels are exceeding the general acceptable level. Hence, it is suitable for the further processing. Data were analyzed using Kruskal Wallis test. Results and Discussion Mean values for the dimensions of main two variables namely, Organizational support and intrapreneurship can be summarized as follows (Figure 1, 2). Accordingly, it can be observed that mean value of the proactiveness level of the surveyed firms is at a higher level with compared to maximum level a firm can be proactive (Figure1). Further, innovativeness and new business venturing are at a relatively low level. Considering the mean value of level of organizational support, except management support (70.02), all other four dimensions are operating at a considerably lower level than the maximum level a firm can do. Rewarding or reinforcing (19.14) is at the highest low level out of the weak four dimensions mentioned above which can be graphically illustrated as follows (Figure2). According to the descriptive statistics, it was found that nearly 64.3% of the sample (27 firms) was accounting for low intrapreneurship level and the rest 35.7% of the sample (15 firms) showing a high level of intrapreneurship.