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01.09.2013

Corporate entrepreneurship in a dispersed setting: actors, behaviors, and process

verfasst von: Olga Belousova, Benoît Gailly

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Abstract

Although conceptual models of the corporate entrepreneurship process are numerous, our current empirical knowledge regarding it remains fragmented, especially concerning the contributions of individual employees to corporate entrepreneurship. Thus, two important questions remain unanswered: How do employees from different managerial ranks of an organization contribute to the corporate entrepreneurship process, and how do these contributions change as the project unfolds over time? In the current research, we aim to answer these questions and offer an integrative framework for the corporate entrepreneurship process that would account for dynamic contributions of multiple actors through their activities and behaviors. We approach these questions in a specific context by studying three cases within a large company in a dispersed corporate setting.

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Fußnoten
1
In Entrepreneurship research, micro level can be understood as both firm and individual. (Davidsson and Wiklund 2001). In this paper micro level is understood as individual.
 
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USD 9.3 to 17.3 billion
 
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The privacy agreement signed by the authors precludes disclosure of specific details concerning the projects and the company. Therefore, the names of the people, products and entities have been disguised.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Corporate entrepreneurship in a dispersed setting: actors, behaviors, and process
verfasst von
Olga Belousova
Benoît Gailly
Publikationsdatum
01.09.2013
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal / Ausgabe 3/2013
Print ISSN: 1554-7191
Elektronische ISSN: 1555-1938
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-013-0259-2

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