Intraprenader i kommunal verksamhet
En explorativ fallstudie
AbstractOur study deals with intrapreneurship in local activity. The main purpose of this study is to understand, explain and develop the concept of intrapreneurship in local activity with the help of existing information, our discussion, and reasoning and with the help of theoretical concepts. One reason for the choice of this topic was our pure curiosity towards this quite unique and unexplored phenomenon. We know that the term intrapreneurship in local activity has not existed longer than about ten years and the amount of existing thesis of intrapreneurship in local activity is very few. The information about intrapreneurship in local activity is mainly collected by studying Örebro´s intrapreneurship policies but also by studying other local authorities in Eksjö, Umeå and Västra-Götaland. One purpose of this study was also to create an overall picture of intrapreneurship in local activity by studying our pictures from reality. This process can be called as hermeneutical spiral and the way we see our environment is based on hermeneutics. Another purpose was to find out and develop the knowledge of our interviewees about their intrapreneurship in local activity. We have deep interviewed four people in local activity to find out and to understand their views about intrapreneurship. Our theoretical framework, for example, consists of organisation structure and change, decentralization, creativity and learning organizations. In our conclusion part we have developed our own definition of intrapreneurship in local activity inspired by our advanced knowledge. We have also found out that there are two important reasons for the local authorities to choose intrapreneurship as their operational mode. The first one is economical and the other one is based on cooperation.