Understanding Organizational Change Into Entrepreneurship: A Theoretical Frameworks and Integration

This qualitative study is to examine the process of organizational change into new entrepreneurship such as corporate spin-offs or intrapreneurship. In the study, the organizational change process is divided into two phases; Change initiation and change diffusion and key issues that should be considered in the future studies are suggested. In change initiation process, individual change agent are the change initiators who are responsible for identifying opportunities, realizing need for change and taking action. In change diffusion procedure, five different contextual factors are to be considered: (a) organizational environment, (b) change inertia or momentum (c) international and cultural atmosphere (d) resistance or receptivity to change and (e) time, sequencing, rhythm or pace. Then change initiation and diffusion processes are integrated into a single theoretical framework.