Uncovering goals for corporate entrepreneurship

Uncovering goals for corporate entrepreneurship: A classification based on literature review

Lang, Christina (University of Applied Sciences Konstanz)
Fitzky, Isabella (University of Applied Sciences Konstanz)
Ortt, J.R. (TU Delft Economics of Technology and Innovation)
Baltes, Guido H. (University of Applied Sciences Konstanz)

2022

Corporate Entrepreneurship (CE) has now evolved into an imperative innovation practice of established companies. Despite organizational design models for CE activities and companies' frequent initiation of new activities, effectively managing them remains a challenging endeavor which results in disappointment about the outcomes of CE and its early termination. We assume specific types of goals for CE as one element of this unresolved management issue. While both practice and literature address goals in different contexts, no uniform picture has emerged so far. Although goals are commonly used to categorize CE activities, they seldomly seem to be the core subject of investigation. Based on this preliminary analysis and consolidation, we put the goals of CE in focus. In a systematic literature review, we reveal aspects of goals to unmask the different types of goals and their underlying dimensions and characteristics. Our review contributes to a better understanding of goals by (1) organizing relevant literature on goals of CE in a specific classification process, (2) describing dimensions and attributes for a systematic classification of CE goals; and (3) providing a framework showing differences of goals for the CE context. We conclude with a discussion and hints for future research paths.

classification
corporate entrepreneurship
corporate venturing
goals
literature review

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:aa4957bf-a732-483a-a58e-556e9983425f

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICE/ITMC-IAMOT55089.2022.10033190

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

2023-08-10

9781665488174

2022 IEEE 28th International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation, ICE/ITMC 2022 and 31st International Association for Management of Technology, IAMOT 2022 Joint Conference - Proceedings

28th IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation, ICE/ITMC 2022 and 31st International Association for Management of Technology, IAMOT 2022 Joint Conference, 2022-06-19 → 2022-06-23, Nancy, France

2022 IEEE 28th International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation, ICE/ITMC 2022 and 31st International Association for Management of Technology, IAMOT 2022 Joint Conference - Proceedings

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© 2022 Christina Lang, Isabella Fitzky, J.R. Ortt, Guido H. Baltes