Guest editorial: the role of corporate entrepreneurship in the current organizational and economic landscape

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Research on corporate entrepreneurship (CE) has grown rapidly over the past decades. Past studies from several complementary fields such as management, strategy, finance, entrepreneurship and marketing, have contributed to a better understanding of this complex and dynamic of entrepreneurship within established organizations. Particularly, previous special issues published in well-know journals evidenced a clear evolution from building to testing theories, methods from qualitative to more sophisticated quantitative analysis and findings in different contexts (see Table 1 in Appendix). To date, there are still unexplored issues. Since 90’s, Guth and Ginsberg (1990) identified opportunities and challenges to extend the study of corporate entrepreneurship in a global context as how the changes in the international environment influence strategic management. Ten years later, Zahra et al. (1999) argued the necessity to developing better theory building in CE research. Twenty years later, Phan et al. (2009) recognized the limits of applicability of certain theories developed in CE in different contexts. Yet, little is known about the CE activity across different regions (Antoncic and Hisrich 2001; Dess et al. 2003; Gómez-Haro et al. 2011; Yang and Li 2011; Zahra and Covin 1995). …