Corporate entrepreneurship: A strategic and structural perspective

From: New England Journal of Entrepreneurship | Date: October 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

Recently there has been a growing interest in the use of corporate entrepreneurship as a means for corporations to enhance the innovative abilities of their employees and, at the same time, increase corporate success through the creation of new corporate ventures. However, the creation of corporate activity is difficult since it involves radically changing internal organizational behavior patterns. Researchers have attempted to understand the factors that stimulate or impede corporate entrepreneurship. They examined the effect of a firm's strategy, organization, and external environment. It ...

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