Corporate entrepreneurship and job satisfaction among middle managers in the high-technology industr

A general business problem in the high-technology field is the poor retention of highly qualified and highly skilled mid-level managers, who are the change agents in corporate entrepreneurship (CE), which can profoundly influence corporations' CE and ultimately their bottom lines. The purpose of this quantitative nonexperimental study, utilizing a correlational research design, was to examine whether a culture of CE within a high-technology firm directly and indirectly influenced the job satisfaction of mid-level managers employed in the high-technology sector in the United States. The primary theoretical model guiding the research questions in this study was Karimi model of intrapreneurship. Like many complex models, the Karimi model of intrapreneurship was heavily influenced by leadership theories. The research questions originated from the need to better understand how organizational-level and employee-level CE factors may influence mid-level managers' job satisfaction in the high-technology industry. The study variables were comprised of numerical data analyzed via statistical tests; numerical data precluded the use of a qualitative research method. The study findings revealed that characteristics of CE particularly innovativeness and proactiveness had a positive correlation with job satisfaction. The results of this study may provide the high-technology industry with new insights, and contribute to the body of knowledge by helping organizations incorporate facets of CE as part of its retention strategies.