The impact of corporate entrepreneurship on the performance of Jordanian telecom companies

Other Title(s)

أثر ريادة الشركة على أداء شركات الاتصالات الأردنية

Dissertant

Abu Karaki, Abd Allah Arif Mahfuz

Thesis advisor

Awwad, Muhammad Sulayman Uqlah

University

Mutah University

Faculty

Faculty of Business

Department

Department of Business Administration and Marketing

University Country

Jordan

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2019

English Abstract

Telecom sector in Jordan is highly competitive in a way that effects the performance of firms working in this sector, many solutions were provided to enhance performance, but corporate entrepreneurship as a solution to significantly improve performance still not have fully adopted, that’s why this research was carried to highlight the importance of such concept to improve performance.

This research was aimed at determining the impact of corporate entrepreneurship dimensions (innovation, risk taking, pro-activeness, competitive aggressiveness and autonomy), which formed the basis of the research questions, on the performance of Jordanian telecom corporates in Jordan.

Data were collected from 39 telecom corporates in Jordan.

The questionnaires entail assessing the degree of corporate entrepreneurship in relation to the performance of telecom corporates in Jordan.

Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) program was used to conduct descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (regression analysis).

The data were then presented using tables for clarity and ease of understanding.

The findings of the research indicated that corporate entrepreneurship dimensions (innovation, risk taking, pro-activeness, and competitive aggressiveness) positively affect performance of Jordanian telecom corporates except the autonomy dimension.

Also, corporate size found to moderate the relationships between all dimensions of corporate entrepreneurship and corporate performance except for the relation between innovativeness and performance.

Conclusions drawn from the research findings and related recommendations to decision makers in Jordanian telecom corporates on how to become more entrepreneurially orientated were presented.

Main Subjects

Business Administration
Marketing

No. of Pages

58

Table of Contents

Table of contents.

Abstract.

Abstract in Arabic.

Chapter One : Theoretical background.

Chapter Two : Theoretical framework and literature review.

Chapter Three : Research methodology and design.

Chapter Four : Results and discussion.

Chapter Five : Findings, discussions and recommendations.

References.

American Psychological Association (APA)

Abu Karaki, Abd Allah Arif Mahfuz. (2019). The impact of corporate entrepreneurship on the performance of Jordanian telecom companies. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Mutah University, Jordan
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1382536

Modern Language Association (MLA)

Abu Karaki, Abd Allah Arif Mahfuz. The impact of corporate entrepreneurship on the performance of Jordanian telecom companies. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Mutah University. (2019).
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1382536

American Medical Association (AMA)

Abu Karaki, Abd Allah Arif Mahfuz. (2019). The impact of corporate entrepreneurship on the performance of Jordanian telecom companies. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Mutah University, Jordan
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1382536

Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-1382536