The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Wellbeing is a comprehensive and cutting-edge work providing the latest insights into a range of perspectives on organizational wellbeing, as well as highlighting global wellbeing issues and exploring new contexts. Topics covered include: digital working and social media, LGBTQIA+ identifications and work, suicide at work, refugee workers, and mental health. A multi- and inter-disciplinary work, this handbook embraces ideas and empirical work from a range of fields including psychology, business and management, economics, and science. This handbook draws together current knowledge whilst also outlining emerging issues and directions, making this an invaluable resource for students and researchers spanning a wide array of disciplines. Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives; Part 2: International Issues and Contexts; Part 3: Developing Organizational Wellbeing; and Part 4: Emerging Issues and Directions.

Intrapreneurship and Wellbeing in Organizations

Intrapreneurship and Wellbeing in Organizations

Intrapreneurship and wellbeing in organizations
Elliroma Gardiner Jonas Debrulle

Introduction

Organizations internationally have recognized the potential that employee contributions to innovation and opportunity recognition can have on firm growth (Antoncic and Antoncic, 2011) as well as on the community (Portales, 2019). The dedicated efforts of global companies, such as Apple, Amazon and Google, to stimulate and support entrepreneurship from within are well known, so much so that even small- to medium-sized enterprises see the merits of investing in employees to think like an ‘entrepreneur’ (Hughes and Mustafa, 2017). Employee efforts to initiate and manage changing requirements in response to shifts in the global economy are seen as a source of strategic competitive advantage ...

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