Enabling Employee Entrepreneurship in Large Technology Firms

Enabling Employee Entrepreneurship in Large Technology Firms

Managers of large technology firms are routinely expected to improve the performance of their development projects. This expectation arises because of the need for firm competitiveness and because externalization of technology development through outsourcing and acquisition is an alternative to internal product projects (Granstrand and Sjölander, 1990; tinyurl.com/mhtrv77). Improvements can tak...

Networks in Entrepreneurship: The Case of High-technology Firms

The value of networks as integral part of the explanation of entrepreneurial success is widely acknowledged. However, the network perspective lacks specification of the various dimensions of a network and their impact on the early development of a venture. We make a distinction between a Schumpeterian start-up pursuing a radical innovation and a Kirznerian venture on basis of an incremental inn...

Chandlerian Firms vs Entrepreneurship

This paper employs an original dataset for 146 US metropolitan areas to test some propositions that characterize two different models of organizing firms and industries: the managerial firm, epitomized by the work of Alfred Chandler, and the entrepreneurial system, recently highlighted by many authors. We discuss the reasons why, compared to the entrepreneurial systems, the Chandlerian world en...

Employee Entrepreneurship: Recent Research and Future Directions

Does internationalisation of technology determine technological diversification in large firms?

The purpose of the paper is to examine the relationship between technological diversification and internationalisation of technology for large multinational firms, operating at the world technological frontier. More precisely we address the question as to whether internationalisation determines diversification. The analysis is based on a rich database of the European patenting activity of 345 l...