Understanding and Measuring Entrepreneurial Organisational Culture

This study provides a definition of a firm-level construct— entrepreneurial organisational culture (EOC)—and takes important steps toward specifying EOC’s dimensionality, measurement, and construct validity. A multi-dimensional EOC instrument was developed and tested, yielding evidence of the instrument’s content, convergent, concurrent and discriminant validity. EOC was found to be positively related to the type of business strategy espoused by CEOs, firms’ degree of entrepreneurial strategic posture, and certain entrepreneurial outcomes, including revenue from new sources. Implications for corporate entrepreneurship research and practice are discussed.