Intrapreneurial Characteristics of NGOs in Turkey

Abstract

Entrepreneurship is defined as an innovative activity performed by utilizing available resources. Entrepreneurial activities carried out in an existing business defined as intrapreneurship. In recent years, intrapreneurship practices have become an important issue for public and private-sector institutions in development and implementation of new ideas. It is believed that non-governmental organizations also need intrapreneurship practices in order to achieve success, reach their goals and in order to be able to be sustain their activities, like profit-oriented enterprises, they need to carry intrapreneurship characteristics. Based on this point, the Corporate Entrepreneurship Assessment Instrument (CEAI) scale, developed by Hornsby, Kuratko and Zahra (2002), has been adopted to Turkish and measured whether the intrapreneurship activities exists in non-governmental organizations