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Training corporate entrepreneurs: an action learning approach

verfasst von: Janice Byrne, Frédéric Delmar, Alain Fayolle, Wadid Lamine

Erschienen in: Small Business Economics | Ausgabe 2/2016

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Although training and development is recognized as an important means to nurture corporate entrepreneurs in organizations, extant research has focused primarily on efforts to develop entrepreneurial leaders and nurture business creation in a school or university setting. We report on the findings of an inductive case study of corporate entrepreneurship training in a large multinational corporation. We explore the learning outcomes which participants experienced, and outline how an action learning approach enabled these learning outcomes. Our emergent model of corporate entrepreneurship training is based on an episodic view of training, recognizing that individual, group and situational influences, need to be considered if a more complete understanding of what makes for effective training in this domain is to be developed.

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Also called ‘intrapreneurship training’(Kuratko and Montagno 1989; Thornberry 2003).

Looking to research on entrepreneurship education and training more generally, we can see that there are three broad types of human capital assets which may emerge from such interventions: entrepreneurial knowledge and skills, positive perceptions of entrepreneurship and intentions to start a business (Martin et al. 2012). In our proposed definition, we group perceptions and intentions under the broader umbrella term of ‘attitudes’.

Sometimes referred to as intrapreneurs here for variety.

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Titel: Training corporate entrepreneurs: an action learning approach
verfasst von: Janice Byrne
Frédéric Delmar
Alain Fayolle
Wadid Lamine
Publikationsdatum: 01.08.2016
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Small Business Economics / Ausgabe 2/2016
Print ISSN: 0921-898X
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0913
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-016-9734-9

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