Corporate entrepreneurship upshot on innovatation performance: the mediation of employee engagement

More than three and half decades of studies are available in the corporate entrepreneurship (CE) domainhowever, the relationship of CE with innovation performance (IP) and employee engagement (EE) is rarely scrutinized though CE is increasingly drawing the attention of different scholars of organizational innovation. Hence, this manuscript tries to contribute to the literature through investigating the role of corporate entrepreneurship on innovation performance of the firms in connection with employee engagement. Based on past studies a model is drown and a quantitative research design is used to study the relationship between corporate entrepreneurship, innovation performance and employee engagement constructs of the firms. To do so, survey was conducted as well as perceptions of 300 employees working in two major mobile communication service provider (i.e. Grameenphone Limited and Robi Axiata Limited) were obtained to analyze the relationships. The data is analyzed and hypotheses were tested by using IBM-SPSS-AMOS package 25.0. The study found the direct upshot of corporate entrepreneurship on innovation performance of the firms is positive and significant (?=0.369, P=.000)corporate entrepreneurship has a positive significant upshot on employee engagement of the firms (?=0.749, P=.000) and employee engagement has a positive significant upshot on innovation performance of the firms (?=0.311, P=.000). However, employee engagement does not mediate the relationship between corporate entrepreneurship and innovation performance by the data of this study as indirect effect is smaller than the direct effect (i.e. Indirect Effect = 0.735 x 0.318 = 0.233< the Direct Effect = 0.369). The originality of the manuscript goes back to studying the concept in an emerging market, i.e. Bangladesh. Also, technology indicators are rarely discussed in the literature, which are studied in this research. It is advised, based on the findings, to improve process innovation as well as product innovation, along with technology indicators through improving corporate entrepreneurial activities