Impact of Personal Characteristics on Intrapreneurs' Behaviours

• Main Authors: Chu, Vivian, Mui Shian, Noorseha Binti Ayob, Luva, Rumana Huq, Tehseen, Shehnaz *, Chong, Soon Meng*, Syed Arslan Haider, Mohar Yusof
• Format: Article
• Published: Allied Business Academies 2022
• Subjects: BF Psychology
• Online Access: http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/1981/
• Institution: Sunway University

The purpose of this research is to study the impact of personal characteristics on the intrapreneurs’ behaviour. This is to investigate the impact of personal competency, innovativeness, learning competency and previous experience on the formation of the intrapreneur behaviour. A total of 146 questionnaires were distributed to the respondents who meet the requirements through a standard self-administered online structured questionnaire. The data were analysed through the PLS-SEM approach. The findings have revealed the direct effect of personal characteristics on the intrapreneurs’ behaviour. The results of finding show a positive and significant impact of innovativeness and previous experience on the formation of intrapreneurs’ behaviour. However, the results also show that the personal competency and learning competency gives a negative impact on the formation of intrapreneurs’ behaviour however it results a high performance. The innovativeness and previous experience may influence the formation of intrapreneur’s behaviour however personal competency and learning competency will not affect the formation of intrapreneur’s