Talent development through intrapreneurship in Russian and Swedish organisations

Sammanfattning: Background Intrapreneurship was never called a “growth strategy” directly. Probably, in the past it was rather anopportunity than a strategy, but nowadays it is a “reality”. A company’s performance is one of the mostimportant consequences of intrapreneurship that is reflected it in terms of growth and profitability.Even more, intrapreneurship contributes to a company’s performance through creation or introductionof innovations, through changes and competition. But how does this inner growth strategy affectemployees? Can we use it in order to develop people? Purpose The purpose of the study is to determine and analyze certain intrapreneureal skills that are positivelyaffected by the process of intrapreneurship. Striving toward this purpose is caused by the currentsituation in modern business in Russia. Thus, Russian companies can compete on the world market,there is still a huge gap in understanding of modern managerial and entrepreneurial strategies that arepopular in Europe and the US. This is related not only to the lack of Russian studies in business andmanagement, but also with a problem of cultural adaptation of those strategies. Method A qualitative approach was used in this paper. The empirical findings were conducted by aquestionnaire and in-depth personal interviews with respondents who are connected tointrapreneurship in Russia and Sweden. Conclusion In conclusion the term intrapreneurial talent is determined; composes part of the intrapreneurial talentare analysed. The skills that are affected by intrapreneurship were found in the analyses of gatheredduring interviews data. The reason for talent development through intrapreneurship is determined bythe possibilities that gives intrapreneurial process.