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Entrepreneurial spirit and corporate entrepreneurship in large companies

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  • Alain Fayolle
  • Olivier Basso

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The themes of corporate entrepreneurship can be approached from many angles: they call for an examination, on the one hand, of the conditions in which new activities are undertaken (concept, markets, finance…), and of the entrepreneur's profile, and on the other hand, of the company's ability to create and welcome innovation as guided by the change agents (leadership). Facing this diversity, our article aims to categorise firm's strategies engaged in entrepreneurial behaviours. After having recalled the characteristics of entrepreneurship considered from an individual perspective, we describe corporate entrepreneurship in its different forms, distinguishing its internal facets (revitalisation, sharing innovative approaches, developing new activities) and its external ones (corporate venture capital). Finally, in our last section, we propose a new framework that helps to recognise different types of entrepreneurial companies and encompasses the various initiatives that resort to corporate entrepreneurship.

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  • Alain Fayolle & Olivier Basso, 2010. "Entrepreneurial spirit and corporate entrepreneurship in large companies," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 10(3), pages 307-323.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijesbu:v:10:y:2010:i:3:p:307-323
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    1. Rodrigo Martín-Rojas & Virginia Fernández-Pérez & Encarnación García-Sánchez, 2017. "Encouraging organizational performance through the influence of technological distinctive competencies on components of corporate entrepreneurship," International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Springer, vol. 13(2), pages 397-426, June.
    2. Rodrigo Martín-Rojas & Virginia Fernández-Pérez & Encarnación García-Sánchez, 0. "Encouraging organizational performance through the influence of technological distinctive competencies on components of corporate entrepreneurship," International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Springer, vol. 0, pages 1-30.
    3. Sheema Matloob & Mónica Lorena Sánchez Limón & Halia Mayela Valladares Montemayor & Ali Raza & Julio Cesar Castanon Rodriguez, 2023. "Does Strategic Change Enhance the Relationship between Firms’ Resources and SMEs Performance in Pakistan?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(3), pages 1-20, January.

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