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How traditional intrapreneurial concept can govern state-owned forest enterprise management decision toward business improvement based on forest products and services
Poduška, Zoran
Nonić, Dragan
Nedeljković, Jelena
Stajić, Snežana
Pavlović, Branka
Čokeša, Vlado
Abstract The intrapreneurial concept (also known as intracorporate entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, and corporate entrepreneurship) is a traditional perspective of forestry based on a commitment to public goods, nature and the environment, and disagreement with the concentration of wealth and power. It can be traced back to the late 19th century through Pincho's sketch as the foundation of forestry practice and forest policy. The intrapreneurial concept implies the principles of a conservation ethic, which is: "the art of producing from the forest whatever it can yield for the service of man". This concept advocates not only conservation but also the provision of public goods to society as a whole. This research aims to analyze the role of intrapreneurial concept in state-owned forest enterprises and its influence on managers’ decisions on business improvement, based on forest products and services. The main research question was what conditions must be present for business improvement in state-owned forest enterprises. We used survey to collect attitudes of managers and employees from 4 state-owned forest enterprises in Serbia. The questionnaire was a combination of a research instrument for measuring intrapreneurship in large enterprises and an instrument for measuring entrepreneurship in forestry enterprises. It showed acceptable reliability. Our conceptual framework consists of following variables: demographic characteristics of employees, need for professional training, influence of business environment, flow of information, managerial support, working autonomy, reward system, working time availability and attitudes toward forest products and services. The results were used to create a model of how selected variables affect opportunities to improve business based on forest products and services. Model shows how state-owned forest enterprise managers need to decide which forest products and services are important for business improvement. Based on the team members demographic characteristics, younger employee expressed attitudes that tourism and recreational services, hunting and fishing together with non-wood forest products are potentially beneficial to the enterprise. Women have attitudes that extension service in private forests is potentially beneficial to the enterprise, as opposed to men. The model also shows specific interactions between organizational elements (variables). Management support is positively correlated with the reward system, information flow, and working autonomy, while it is negatively correlated with employees' need for professional training. The reward system and flow of information are negatively correlated, similar to influence from busies environment and working time availability. We can conclude that there are modalities between organizational elements and demographic characteristics of employees that affect the possibility for business improvement based on forest products and services. These modalities are specific for state-owned forest enterprises where employees need to fulfill public needs in which some products and services are offered for free.
engleski
2023
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entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, business, forest products and services, state-owned forest enterprises, Pincho