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Received: 2025-06-16  |  Accepted: 2025-09-20  |  Published: 2025-12-30

Title

Institutions and employee intrapreneurship: does gender matter?


Abstract

Innovation within an organization may depend on Intrapreneurship employee-related antecedents. This research draws upon institutional theory to investigate whether the external environment, in terms of formal or informal institutions, affects the likelihood of employee Intrapreneurship and to what extent gender can benefit from each side of institutions. Exploratory factor analysis and binomial logistic regression were applied to understand the relationship between institutions and employee Intrapreneurship among Genders. The findings conclude that organizations should proactively engage with and adapt to the formal institutional context to cultivate an intrapreneurial culture that encourages employee creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurial behavior. At the same time, gender plays a significant moderating role in establishing a robust connection between formal institutional factors and intrapreneurship. These findings can potentially develop intrapreneurship within organizations by tailoring the institutional environment accordingly.


Keywords

intrapreneurship, innovation, gender, institutions, Saudi Arabia


JEL classifications

M21 , L26


URI

http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/1365


DOI


Pages

143-159


Funding

This research was funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research (DSR) at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, under grant no. (GPIP:1926-849-2024). The authors, therefore, acknowledge with thanks DSR for technical and financial support.

This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Authors

Aljarodi, Abdullah M.
King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia https://csc.kau.edu.sa
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Journal title

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues

Volume

13


Number

2


Issue date

December 2025


Issue DOI


ISSN

ISSN 2345-0282 (online)


Publisher

VšĮ Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

Cited

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