DESIGNING AND TESTING AN ASSESSMENT MODEL OF THE ANTECEDENTS OF CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COMPANIES

The purpose of the paper is to analyze instruments for the evaluation of individual entrepreneurial characteristics and organizational conditions and to test these instruments in large organizations. These objectives were established from the literature, lavish in references emphasizing the importance of stimulating entrepreneurial initiatives in large organizations. As the CEAI test has been improved, it was initially chosen to subject the Gletest to a statistical evaluation of validity and reliability. The second part involved applying those instruments to managers of large companies and verify the possible correlations between these antecedents of Corporate Entrepreneurship. The first observation is that the majority of the correlations between the constructs is positive, presenting a tendency to observe higher scores of the entrepreneurial behaviors (Gletest) where higher scores of the organizational factors (CEAI) are observed. Statistical analyses do not identify whether the organizational factors influence the personal entrepreneurial characteristics (PECs) or the other way around.