The Mediating Role of Intrapreneurship in the Effect of Openness to Organizational Change on Innovative Behavior

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This study examines the mediating role of intrapreneurship in the relationship between organizational openness to change and innovative behavior in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Although it is known that employees’ openness to change plays an important role in the development of innovative behaviors in organizations, the mechanisms through which this relationship emerges have not yet been sufficiently clarified. The research is based on quantitative data obtained from SME employees operating in Kırşehir. The data obtained from a total of 403 participants were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM). The results of the analysis show that organizational openness to change has a positive and significant effect on innovative behavior. In addition, it was determined that openness to organizational change has a significant effect on intrapreneurship and intrapreneurship significantly affects innovative behavior. The findings reveal that intrapreneurship plays a partial mediating role in the relationship between organizational openness to change and innovative behavior. These results show that organizational environments that are open to change contribute to the emergence of innovative behaviors by encouraging employees’ intrapreneurship tendencies and reveal that intrapreneurship is a critical mechanism in the development of innovative behaviors in organizations.