in the present-day world, a combination of organizational entrepreneurship and individual entrepreneurship will result in the competitive advantages. survival in a very competitive environment will trigger organizations to focus on creativity, innovation, risk-taking and pioneering by employees as well as in structure and trends. this paper studies the employees' entrepreneurial attitude (...

I develop the ‘surrogate motherhood’ model of entrepreneurship and network evolution. This model suggests that incumbent firms may gestate new spin-off firms by entrepreneurial employees when certain firm-specific and network conditions apply. Additionally, I suggest that the spin-offs keep their cohesive ties to the ‘surrogate mother’ firm well beyond resource dependence arguments would convey...

This paper provides new evidence on the impact of private property rights and employer-provided housing on entrepreneurship. I find an increase in self-employment following a reform in urban China that allowed state employees who were renting state-owned housing the opportunity to buy their homes at subsidized prices. I develop a model of job choice to test two mechanisms that might explain how...

identifying the factors affecting entrepreneurship has always been one of the concerns of scientists. the emphasis has been changed from external and hard factors to internal and hard drives. accordingly, the present paper will investigate the effect of social capital on organizational entrepreneurship with the moderating role of job motivation. this paper, from objective point of view and type...

today, survival and value creation in organizations depend on creative and innovative thinking as well as understanding and utilization of environmental opportunities. this research attempts to introduce the organization behavioral barriers which affect the development of corporate entrepreneurship. first, with the views of different experts, various behavioral barriers of corporate entrepreneu...

In the current competitive world, organizations can reach competitive advantage which support entrepreneurship by providing the required tools. One of the most important tools for developing entrepreneurship which was neglected in previous studies is organizational knowledge management. The present paper aims to shed light on the role and importance of knowledge management in sport entreprene...

Spin-offs – the process by which employees of an established organization leave this organization in order to create a new one – are a common phenomenon. In certain industries, such as management consulting, they even constitute the prevailing mode of entry (Garvin, 1983). Spin-offs are an inevitable by-product of Corporate Entrepreneurship programs and as such rather frequent in hi tech compan...