Abstract:
Sustainable corporate entrepreneurship (CE) is a new field attracting increasing
attention from scholars of different interested disciplines. Based on an analysis of 646
cases of managers in Zambia, this research attempts to determine whether
sustainable CE and sustained company performance can be predicted, and also to
identify best predictors of the phenomena. Through the use of structural equation
modelling, the study applied the measurement instruments for CE climate and
external environmental factors to analyse the data. The study findings indicate that
CE climate (management support for internal CE; management support for external
CE; work discretion; rewards/reinforcement; time availability; and organisational
boundaries, barriers and bureaucracies), and external environment (dynamism;
hostility; and heterogeneity), are compelling determinants of sustainable CE which
leads to sustained company performance. While the internal organisational
antecedents largely work through entrepreneurial actions, the external contextual
influences have direct effect on sustainable CE as well as indirect effects through
entrepreneurial actions. Specifically the findings show that management support for
internal CE and environmental dynamism are the best predictors of sustainable CE
among the organisational antecedents and environmental factors respectively.
Valuable management implications of the findings in relation to the pursuit of
sustainable CE as well as the substantive significance of the findings are highlighted.
