Globalization coupled with dynamic and turbulent business environment compels corporate organizations inclusive of the health care sector to constantly look for more innovative ways to be able to maintain competitive advantage for survival. Khan, Budhaw, & Shaik (2011:1) agree that large organizations should replace corporate bureaucracy which emphasises top down command and control system with entrepreneurial empowerment to the entire workforce. The term intraprenuership was introduced by Pinchot (1985) as a principle bringing in a business ideology within large corporates which become ideal experimental platforms for the more intrapreneurial employees who are not content with status quo, and relentlessly seek new avenues that could improve performance. This new business inclined principle being quite foreign to nursing embodies autonomy, self-directedness and innovation by organizational teams (Khan et al., 2011:1). Discussions in this paper are based on part of the major study on development of intrapreneurship framework among unit nurse managers working at three public hospitals of Mangaung, within the Free State province. The study was conducted at three public hospitals operating within the district health care system model driven through Primary Health Care approach (Harrison, 2009:Online).
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