Networking and virtuality in entrepreneurial organisations in the age of countries without borders

Abstract

Entrepreneurial organisations continuously search for innovations and innovative ways of doing business that provide a competitive advantage in the market. In the age of countries without borders and free movement of people, organisations in Eastern European countries deal with the lack of high quality labour force caused by migration that forced to seek alternative ways of managing work and workplace. The paper analyses networking, virtual workplace, and other characteristics of job design in entrepreneurial organisation. Results of the research in Lithuanian organisations show positive correlations between corporate entrepreneurship, networking at the workplace, and virtual workplace. Moreover, more entrepreneurial and less entrepreneurial organisations differ in job complexity. No significant correlation between corporate entrepreneurship and two other characteristics of job design, i.e. multitasking and job autonomy, was found. However, they have relationships with virtual workplace as well as networking or job complexity. Current results suggest that further research on job design in the field of entrepreneurship is needed, and call organisations to use virtual workplaces and networking design at the workplace.