Impact of Top Management Support on Entrepreneurial Behaviour of Employees and their Intentions to Network Ties: A Study on Selected Private Firms of Bangladesh

Abstract

Entrepreneurial behaviour of employees has received significant
attention from scholars and professionals regarding their importance in
organizational development. To enhance and support the entrepreneurial
behaviour of employees, an organization has to embrace itself in managing
people. Along with other factors, the support of top management found as a vital
factor in creating that environment which ultimately shapes the entrepreneurial
behaviour of employees. Corporate Entrepreneurship (CE) also plays a crucial
role to identify the extent of network ties and its importance in managing as well
as progression of an organization as a social unit. Network ties worked as a web
of relations among employees in managing their entrepreneurial behaviour and
innovativeness both inside and outside of the organization. This paper went for
quantitative study (survey) to pinpoint the association among CE, top
management support and network ties. SPSS has been used to calculate
correlation, reliability, regression and factor analysis. This paper found a
positive association between CE and network ties as well as between CE and top
management support. The outcome of the survey entails the need of management
support in CE and network ties as one of the crucial one. This paper found the
importance of CE in overall performance of employees and the impact of top
management support on the employees’ intention to be entrepreneurial.
Moreover, this paper tried to frame the need of network ties to catch the edge of
innovation.