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...
While the importance of innovation is fairly well understood, organizations need to better understand the sources of innovation. One key but often overlooked source is a company's employee base. As organizations search for new avenues for growth, it becomes necessary for it to look within its ranks in order to...
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 helps communities develop "intrapreneurship", or...
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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....
In the January/February issue of Industrial Management, contributors ring in a new year by discussing business topics ranging from the business effects of a pandemic to how to be candid with your manager. Supply chain expert Jim Tompkins writes about...
ABSTRACT There is an increasing need for innovation in business education to address and develop the characteristics and skills of those considering an entrepreneurial career. We describe two curriculum innovations taking place in a business school program that target the development of these characteristics and skills and overcome...
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...
Paul Burns, Corporate Entrepreneurship: Building an Entrepreneurial Organisation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 352 pp. ISBN 1-40390-809-5, 26.99 [pounds sterling] pbk. This book is about building an entrepreneurial organization and Paul Burns states in the preface (p. xviii) that 'Corporate entrepreneurship...
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