Making of intrapreneurial managers: Investigating unethical behavior, risk-taking, and decision-making speed as antecedents
PURPOSE: The entrepreneurship-ethics nexus draws considerable interest from researchers and practitioners with little resolution. Our purpose with this paper is to contribute to the debate by shedding light on the relationship between managers’ attitudes toward unethical behavior and their subsequen...
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| author | Rrezon Lajçi Gentrit Berisha Besnik Krasniqi |
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| description | PURPOSE: The entrepreneurship-ethics nexus draws considerable interest from researchers and practitioners with little resolution. Our purpose with this paper is to contribute to the debate by shedding light on the relationship between managers’ attitudes toward unethical behavior and their subsequent entrepreneurial intention (EI) in an emerging economy context. Given the complex and multifaceted interplay between unethical behavior and EI, we extend our investigation by including decision-making speed and attitude toward risk to explain the relationship further. We take a granular approach to facets of unethical behavior to gain deeper insights into the specificity of influences they pose on subsequent behavioral intentions. METHODOLOGY: Primary data were collected from 214 Kosovan managers employed in companies from different industries. Hypothesized relationships were tested by conducting hierarchical regression analyses. FINDINGS: Our results indicate that managers with higher EI are not necessarily unethical overall. We did not find support for the hypothesis that managers with stronger attitudes toward unethical behavior demonstrate higher entrepreneurial intentions. Focusing on dimensions of unethical behavior, we find that managers who favor bribery are more entrepreneurially inclined. Furthermore, we find that managers who are quick decision-makers and risk-takers express higher EI. IMPLICATIONS: Theoretically, we add to the existing body of research on ethics and entrepreneurship by empirically examining the relationship between attitude toward unethical behavior and EI and the viability of the Theory of Planned Behavior as a framework for integrating unethical behavior in entrepreneurship research. Our study affirms the extension of the theoretical and empirical underpinnings concerning ethics and entrepreneurship, contemplating that they are pervasive across contexts. We provide important practical implications for managers, especially in the corporate entrepreneurship and training context. Managers are encouraged to foster an entrepreneurial-friendly environment that abides by ethical standards. Our study also informs policymakers of the importance of formal education on entrepreneurship as a mechanism to enforce ethical awareness in future entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs. ORIGINALITY AND VALUE: This study is among the first attempts to test the relationship between unethical behavior and EI in a managerial sample and non-western context. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-bcabcffce5984af8ba8a21788dc084562025-01-03T01:10:11ZengCognitione Foundation for the Dissemination of Knowledge and ScienceJournal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation2299-73262024-01-01202537410.7341/20242023Making of intrapreneurial managers: Investigating unethical behavior, risk-taking, and decision-making speed as antecedentsRrezon Lajçi0Gentrit Berisha1Besnik Krasniqi2Ph.D Candidate and Research Assistant, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Department of Economic Sciences and Media, Management/Organization Research Group Helmholtzplatz 3, 98693 Ilmenau, GermanyProf. Dr., Assistant Professor, University of Prishtina, Department of Management, Prishtina, Republic of Kosovo, Agim Ramadani Street, nn, 10000 Prishtina, KosovoProf. Dr., Full Professor, University of Prishtina, Department of Management, Prishtina, Republic of Kosovo and Staffordshire University, Department of Economics, Stoke-On-Trent, UK, Agim Ramadani Street, nn, 10000 Prishtina, KosovoPURPOSE: The entrepreneurship-ethics nexus draws considerable interest from researchers and practitioners with little resolution. Our purpose with this paper is to contribute to the debate by shedding light on the relationship between managers’ attitudes toward unethical behavior and their subsequent entrepreneurial intention (EI) in an emerging economy context. Given the complex and multifaceted interplay between unethical behavior and EI, we extend our investigation by including decision-making speed and attitude toward risk to explain the relationship further. We take a granular approach to facets of unethical behavior to gain deeper insights into the specificity of influences they pose on subsequent behavioral intentions. METHODOLOGY: Primary data were collected from 214 Kosovan managers employed in companies from different industries. Hypothesized relationships were tested by conducting hierarchical regression analyses. FINDINGS: Our results indicate that managers with higher EI are not necessarily unethical overall. We did not find support for the hypothesis that managers with stronger attitudes toward unethical behavior demonstrate higher entrepreneurial intentions. Focusing on dimensions of unethical behavior, we find that managers who favor bribery are more entrepreneurially inclined. Furthermore, we find that managers who are quick decision-makers and risk-takers express higher EI. IMPLICATIONS: Theoretically, we add to the existing body of research on ethics and entrepreneurship by empirically examining the relationship between attitude toward unethical behavior and EI and the viability of the Theory of Planned Behavior as a framework for integrating unethical behavior in entrepreneurship research. Our study affirms the extension of the theoretical and empirical underpinnings concerning ethics and entrepreneurship, contemplating that they are pervasive across contexts. We provide important practical implications for managers, especially in the corporate entrepreneurship and training context. Managers are encouraged to foster an entrepreneurial-friendly environment that abides by ethical standards. Our study also informs policymakers of the importance of formal education on entrepreneurship as a mechanism to enforce ethical awareness in future entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs. ORIGINALITY AND VALUE: This study is among the first attempts to test the relationship between unethical behavior and EI in a managerial sample and non-western context.https://jemi.edu.pl/uploadedFiles/file/all-issues/vol20/issue2/JEMI_Vol20_Issue2_2024_Article3.pdfentrepreneurial intentionunethical behaviorbriberyrisk-takingdecision-making speedintrapreneurial managersentrepreneurship-ethics nexushierarchic regression analysiscorporate entrepreneurshiptheory of planned behaviorethical standardsentrepreneurship |
| spellingShingle | Rrezon Lajçi Gentrit Berisha Besnik Krasniqi Making of intrapreneurial managers: Investigating unethical behavior, risk-taking, and decision-making speed as antecedents Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation entrepreneurial intention unethical behavior bribery risk-taking decision-making speed intrapreneurial managers entrepreneurship-ethics nexus hierarchic regression analysis corporate entrepreneurship theory of planned behavior ethical standards entrepreneurship |
| title | Making of intrapreneurial managers: Investigating unethical behavior, risk-taking, and decision-making speed as antecedents |
| title_full | Making of intrapreneurial managers: Investigating unethical behavior, risk-taking, and decision-making speed as antecedents |
| title_fullStr | Making of intrapreneurial managers: Investigating unethical behavior, risk-taking, and decision-making speed as antecedents |
| title_full_unstemmed | Making of intrapreneurial managers: Investigating unethical behavior, risk-taking, and decision-making speed as antecedents |
| title_short | Making of intrapreneurial managers: Investigating unethical behavior, risk-taking, and decision-making speed as antecedents |
| title_sort | making of intrapreneurial managers investigating unethical behavior risk taking and decision making speed as antecedents |
| topic | entrepreneurial intention unethical behavior bribery risk-taking decision-making speed intrapreneurial managers entrepreneurship-ethics nexus hierarchic regression analysis corporate entrepreneurship theory of planned behavior ethical standards entrepreneurship |
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