THE ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET ADJUSTMENT AS A TOOL TO FOSTER INNOVATIONS IN PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANISATIONS

Abstract

The nature of the entrepreneurial behaviour exhibition within public organisations has become an important theoretical perspective in public management research. Based on the literature review in this domain we derive that prior research goes beyond the public sector entrepreneurship, providing the implication of corporate entrepreneurship concept in the public domain, excluding such an important tool as entrepreneurial mindset formation. However, the cognitive processes of the “entrepreneurial” element incorporation into public organisations are still needed to be addressed. We focus on the assessment of the legitimacy of the entrepreneurial mindset adjustment in the public context, emphasising reasoning and causality relationships of entrepreneurial behaviour manifestation with respect to the likelihood to be engaged in innovation. We introduce the framework of the entrepreneurial mindset formation in public organisation as an effective toolkit to foster innovation activity. Identifying determinants of the entrepreneurial mindset and its corresponding implications in the public context, we conceptualise revealed relationships within introduced framework into propositions, we also provide some clues for further its testing discussing directions for future research.