Numéro 2002 / 08 Corporate Entrepreneurship : Lessons from the Field , Blind Spots
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This article attempts to extract and integrate the knowledge generated by practitioners engaged in Corporate Entrepreneurship experiments. Relying on fifteen case studies, it identifies and discusses the three key dimensions of their “theory-of-action”: autonomy, motivation and resource discipline. It argues for the inclusion of a fourth dimension – institutionalization – if Corporate Entrepreneurship is to overcome its present “unstable organizational form” status.
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