Organizational culture and academic intrapreneurship at the University of Guayaquil-Ecuador

Abstract

Objective: this paper aims to show the relationship between the organizational culture, some determining aspects, group behavior and the transformational leadership and the analysis in relation with academic intrapreneurship focuses on innovation and research contextualized in the Foreign Trade Engineering of Administrative Sciences Faculty from Guayaquil. Method: the methodology is based on methods and techniques (questionnaire) applied to teachers using a canonic correlation statistical model in order to set a relationship among variables. Results: the results show teachers’ perception in relation with suggested variables, associated with improvement proposals for their organizational models. These results might be reference for forward researches in order to help to design strategies to manage higher education in context of high technological availability with renew point of views. Discussions: intra-entrepreneurs are incipient in some of the higher education institutions from developing countries, for this reason it is necessary to promote spin-offs and academic entrepreneurship networks in order to create new technology-based companies. Conclusions: it is then concluded, that Higher Educations Institutions (IES) must focus on innovation and entrepreneurship as transversal axes in their academic and professional activities, making possible to achieve the organization’s objectives for the benefit of the society.