Starting a new venture within an established company can satisfy the entrepreneurial itch — without the risks of going solo. Learn how “intrapreneurship” can give your career, and your company, a boost. Ever dream of leaving your middle-management job and striking out on your own? For a lot of people,...
Seven successful intrapreneurs reveal what it took to launch new ventures at Kodak, Toyota, Yahoo, and other major companies. .logoimg { float:right; border:1px solid #eee; padding:4px; background:#fff;} Kodak Intrapreneur:...
This paper compares the financing of new ventures in start-ups entrepreneurship and in established firms intrapreneurship. Intrapreneurship allows established firms to use information on failed intrapreneurs to redeploy them into other jobs. By contrast, failed entrepreneurs must seek other jobs in an imperfectly informed external labor market. While this external...
INTRAPRENEURSHIP IS THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXERCISE YOUR ENTREpreneurial skills within a company or organization. It is a great way to gain corporate independence as well as increase your profile within the company and the industry. Robert Wallace, author and CEO of Bithgroup Technologies Inc. in Baltimore, shares what it takes...
Executive Summary This article focuses on understanding corporate entrepreneurship and how intrapreneurs develop through the use of literature, an interview of a corporate entrepreneur, and personal experiences of the authors on how a company can enhance its longevity and remain competitive by embracing entrepreneurship as an organizational value. The...
Monica Knight isn't afraid to do things differently. This Saskatoon-based conference speaker and economic development consultant, former teacher in India, and human resources manager in South Africa, shares her world experiences in a vibrant and memorable way. Through her company, Shosholoza Productions, Knight...
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ABSTRACT This empirical study explores the logic of action used by intrapreneurs when undertaking internal ventures. The design of this qualitative study includes the identification of a sample of 59 internal ventures undertaken by 39 middle managers in 35 complex multidivisional organizations in Canada. The findings of this exploratory...
ABSTRACT Many feel that "intrapreneurship" is an interesting concept, but one which is fraught with peril. The need for innovation within organizations is a topic of much debate today as entrepreneurship has finally caught the world's attention. If entrepreneurial firms change the business paradigms and make us see...
Globalisation, commoditisation, increasing regulation and shortening product/service life-cycles are squeezing the margins of those former state-owned monopolies that are now responsible for maintaining the infrastructure used by newer, more nimble competitors. This paradigm challenges the very organisations that form the backbone of developed economies. Prominent among them are...
Globalisation, commoditisation, increasing regulation and shortening product/service life-cycles are squeezing the margins of those former state-owned monopolies that are now responsible for maintaining the infrastructure used by newer, more nimble competitors. This paradigm challenges the very organisations that form the backbone of...
Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone reports on a project designed to help France Telecom generate competitive advantage by developing its people's intrapreneurship skills. Globalisation, commoditisation, increasing regulation and shortening product/service life-cycles are squeezing the margins of those former state-owned monopolies that are now responsible for maintaining the infrastructure...
Byline: MARK HENRICKS The term "intrapreneurship'' has been around at least 20 years, but it's only recently become a buzzword in business circles. Here's a sampling of where to go to find out what all the talk's about. Come on, you can't read too...
Byline: SAMANTHA STAINBURN Who'd envy an entrepreneur's late nights developing a new product under if-this-doesn't-work-I-go-back-to-bartending conditions? Large corporations, for one. Crain's asked Steven Rogers, a professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, how "intrapreneurship'' can thrive in a sea of bureaucracy....
There is a deep irony at work in most of the companies and institutions where our readers spend their careers. These are organizations that ask for (and in most cases, desperately need) more innovation, more creativity and more risk-taking on the part...
ABSTRACT This paper reports on the nature and extent of intrapreneurship or corporate entrepreneurship practiced by Australian businesses. We examined the relationship between measures of corporate entrepreneurship and firm growth and profitability, and utilised measures devised by earlier researchers attempting to assess corporate entrepreneurship, viz: new business venturing, innovativeness, self-renewal,...
In the past 20 years, entrepreneurship has become a very valued element of our economic fabric. It has been recognized for its worth by individuals who have taken this route, through necessity or choice, and various government programs and venture capital initiatives that have sprouted to...
Following a successful career in industry, Dr. Douglas V. Shick, a newly minted entrepreneur, established NRS Associates, LLC, to perform consulting services based on two highly technical computer-modeling programs. Doug was heavily involved in the development of one program, an innovative computer simulation software for modeling a particular manufacturing process,...
INTRAPRENEURSHIP Intrapreneurs are employees who work within a business in an entrepreneurial capacity, creating innovative new products and processes for the organization. Intrapreneurship is often associated with larger companies that have taken notice of the rise in entrepreneurial activity in recent years; these firms endeavor to create an environment wherein...
