This paper examines the institutional characteristics of UK Employee Share Ownership Plans (ESOPs) and considers the extent to which ESOPs extend employee participation and industrial democracy. It is suggested that ESOPs in themselves do not extend industrial democracy. Instead patterns of employee participation are substantially determined by the goals of those primarily responsible for estab...

Why do some employees bring their own information technology (IT) to work? This behavior occurs in firms that provide considerable IT for employee use and in firms that have policies and governance that discourage employees from using consumer IT as corporate IT. In the theory of the firm, IT policy and governance are means for a firm to maximize value from its IT and to ensure employees do wha...

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...

Nascent and Infant Entrepreneurs in Germany: Evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM) ∗ Based on data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper documents that the patterns of variables influencing nascent and infant entrepreneurship are quite similar and broadly in line with our theoretical priors – both types of entrepreneurship are fost...

Purpose – This paper considers the requirements for an industry sector approach to entrepreneurship education – The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Sector. We present a modified Process Framework for Entrepreneurship Education focusing specifically on ICT. The primary components of the Process Framework are described (inputs, process and content, assessment and outputs) to assis...

Purpose – Organizational performance, growth and development may depend considerably on entrepreneurship in existing organizations (intrapreneurship) and intrapreneurship employee-related antecedents. The purpose of this study is to focus on employee satisfaction (composed of four dimensions: general satisfaction with work; employee relationships; remuneration, benefits and organizational cultu...

Abstract Research Summary This study examines the impact of startup acquisition on acquired employees' propensity for entrepreneurship. As a new owner, acquirer may not prioritize ideas to be commercialized internally, thereby increasing odds that they are pursued externally. Leveraging employee‐employer matched data from U.S. Census high‐tech acquisitions and their workforce in 1990–2011, I fi...

this study examines the relationship between organizational factors affecting corprate and potential outcomes of corporate entrepreneurship. these organizational factors include: management support, work discretion, rewarding provide enough chances for creativity, defeat organizational barriers and employee motivation. the potential outcomes of corporate entrepreneurship are job satisfaction an...

We explore whether the tendency for smaller firms to have fewer hierarchical layers explains the well‐documented inverse correlation between firm size and the rate at which employees become business owners. Our analysis is based on a Swedish matched employer‐employee dataset. Conditional on firm size, employees in firms with more layers are less likely to enter entrepreneurship, to become self‐...