How the Managerial Environment Effects on Corporate Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Turkey

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the mediating role of organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) betweencharismatic leadership (CL) and corporate entrepreneurship (CE), as well as to examine the moderator effect ofethical climate on the relationships between charismatic leadership (CL) and corporate entrepreneurship (CE).Structural equation modeling ıs performed to test the proposed relations using data collected from 425 white-collarworkers in Istanbul. The analysis results show charismatic leadership, organizational citizenship behaviors, andethical climate to positively and significantly correlate with corporate entrepreneurship. Meanwhile, principled localethical climate has a moderator effect between charismatic leadership and organizational citizenship as it strengthensthe positive relationship between them. This means that better ethical environmental conditions strengthenthe positive effect of charismatic leadership on corporate entrepreneurship. This study contributes to the literatureby attempting some novelties such as: (a) testing the impact and importance level of ethical climate in the workenvironment of an emerging country such as Turkey, (b) investigating the moderating role of ethical climate onthe relationship between charismatic leadership and corporate entrepreneurship, and (c) analyzing the mediatingrelationship among charismatic leadership, organizational citizenship behavior and corporate entrepreneurship andchecking the mediating role of organizational citizenship behavior over them.