Investigation of relationship between entrepreneurship and individual innovativeness in nurse academicians
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2018
Yazarlar: Khorshtd, Leyla, Baysal, Ebru, Leblebicioğlu, Hülya
Bursa Uludag University - AVESIS, Uluslararası, 2018
Özet
Background: There is little evidence to guide the relationship between entrepreneurship and individual innovativeness for nurse academicians, crucial to the implementation.Objectives: This descriptive research was carry out to analyze the correlations between entrepreneurial characteristics and individual qualities of innovativeness among nurse academicians in Turkey. Methodology:The sample of the descriptive study consisted of 216 nurse academicians.The data were collected using the "Information Form", "Entrepreneurship Scale", "Individual Innovativeness Scale".Results: It was found a statistically weak but positive correlation between the overall entrepreneurship scale and the overall innovativeness scale.Accordingly, as the overall entrepreneurship score increased, the individual innovativeness level increased as well.In addition, statistically positive relationships between general entrepreneurship sub-dimensions such as management and organizational incentives, individual motivation, transparency and openness, individual competence, constructive business environment, innovation incentives, development and general individual innovativeness were found to be significant.Conclusions: It was determined that individual innovativeness levels were effective in increasing entrepreneurship in nurses academicians.Also it was found there were significant relations between variables and they were effective on individual innovativeness dimensions although not entrepreneurial dimensions were all.