This document discusses corporate entrepreneurship as a strategic approach for improving internal innovation performance. It reviews literature on corporate entrepreneurship and the relationship between intrapreneurship and strategic models. The paper proposes a conceptual framework that focuses on internal innovation over external mergers and acquisitions. Key factors for enhancing internal innovation include developing systems to motivate innovative behavior, concentrating entrepreneurial ventures, and educating employees on corporate entrepreneurship. Implementing strategic approaches can help corporations innovate internally and improve growth and profits, while accepting failure as part of the innovation process.
The study sought to evaluate the predominant leadership styles, the leadership effectiveness,
and the relationship between leadership effectiveness and innovation management of a group
of executives of several organizations.
The study sought to evaluate the predominant leadership styles, the leadership effectiveness,
and the relationship between leadership effectiveness and innovation management of a group
of executives of several organizations.
The entrepreneurship, in today’s globalized economy, is linked with autonomy, venturing into new business, development of new products, pro-activeness, taking risks, innovation, strategic renewal, self-renewal, and competitive aggressiveness (Zahra and Garvis 1998). In this age of rapid developments in technology and the emerging global markets, the IT company has been able to utilize and develop its resources. The principles of corporate entrepreneurship are followed by prospering through the absorption of the pressures. It is a well known doctrine that the company’s performance is positively impacted by the involvement of corporate entrepreneurship (Wiklund 2009). The implication of this is by practicing entrepreneurship, the organizations would be successful in increasing the results that can be leading to the increase in GDP.
Read attachedpages about 3-M and their approach to innovationRes.docxmakdul
Read attachedpages about 3-M and their approach to innovation
Research one of 3M’s innovations.
Write a full two page paper in which you respond to the following questions:
1. How did the creative thinking process work in the development of this product? Describe what took place in each of the four steps.
2. Analyze what type of innovation this was—invention, extension, duplication, or synthesis. What characteristics of the innovation have led you to this conclusion?
3. Explain which of the sources of innovative ideas discussed in this week’s reading help account for this product’s success and why?
Include a minimum of two sources
The Entrepreneurial Mind-Set in Organizations: Corporate Entrepreneurship
Thus, 3M’s philosophy was born. Innovation is a numbers game: The more ideas, the better the chances for a successful innovation. In other words, to master innovation, companies must have a tolerance for failure. This philosophy has paid off for 3M. Antistatic videotape, trans- lucent dental braces, synthetic ligaments for knee surgery, heavy-duty reflective sheeting for construction signs, and, of course, Post-it notes are just some of the great innovations devel- oped by the organization. Overall, the company has a catalog of 60,000 products.40
Today, 3M follows a set of innovative rules that encourages employees to foster ideas. The key rules include the following:
•
Don’t kill a project. If an idea can’t find a home in one of 3M’s divisions, a staffer can devote 15 percent of his or her time to prove it is workable. For those who need seed money, as many as 90 Genesis grants of $50,000 are awarded each year.
• Tolerate failure. Encouraging plenty of experimentation and risk taking allows more chances for a new product hit. The goal: Divisions must derive 25 percent of sales from products introduced in the past five years. The target may be boosted to 30 percent in some cases.
• Keep divisions small. Division managers must know each staffer’s first name. When a division gets too big, perhaps reaching $250 million to $300 million in sales, it is split up.
• Motivate the champions. When a 3M employee has a product idea, he or she recruits an action team to develop it. Salaries and promotions are tied into the product’s progress. The champion has a chance to someday run his or her own product group or division.
• Stay close to the customer. Researchers, marketers, and managers visit with customers and routinely invite them to help brainstorm product ideas.
•
Share the wealth. Technology, wherever it is developed, belongs to everyone.41 3-4c structuring the Work environment
Structuring the Work environment
When establishing the drive to innovate in today’s corporations, one of the most critical steps is to invest heavily in an innovative environment. A top-level manager’s job is to create a work environment that is highly conducive to innovation and entrepreneurial behaviors. Within such an environment, each employee has the opport ...
Role of Learning Process in Capability Development and Business Performance o...ijtsrd
The purpose of this research is to analyze how the influence of internal learning of employees, external learning obtained from suppliers and consumers, and ownership of processes and equipment, on the performance of the company. This research also examines the role of human resources as moderator in the relationship between process ownership and equipment with performance. The research population that became the object of this research covers all manufacturing companies operating in Indonesia. The population is a manufacturing company registered by the Manufacturing Company Directory published by the Statistics Centre Bureau of, 2010. The sample is determined by using purposive sampling technique, and the sample selected is a manufacturing company with criteria that have medium and large scale. From the results of hypothesis testing then some of the main findings are presented in this section. First, internal learning positively affects technological capabilities, indicating that ownership of tools and technologies is encouraged or enhanced by improving the internal learning process. The main findings of both studies indicate that external learning will encourage companies to increase their ownership of equipment and technology. Humans are recognized as controllers in the use and utilization of technology. This study is the first step to undertake the development of empirical studies by considering further factors that determine success in resource management and technology primarily through organizational learning. Furthermore, the findings of this study also indicate the factors of operating strategy that moderate ownership of tools and technology companies to performance. Lena Ellitan"Role of Learning Process in Capability Development and Business Performance of East Java Manufacturing Firms: Resources as Moderator" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-1 , December 2017, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd5877.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/management/strategic-management/5877/role-of-learning-process-in-capability-development-and-business-performance-of-east-java-manufacturing-firms-resources-as-moderator/lena-ellitan
Role of Learning Process in Capability Development and Business Performance o...ijtsrd
The purpose of this research is to analyze how the influence of internal learning of employees, external learning obtained from suppliers and consumers, and ownership of processes and equipment, on the performance of the company. This research also examines the role of human resources as moderator in the relationship between process ownership and equipment with performance. The research population that became the object of this research covers all manufacturing companies operating in Indonesia. The population is a manufacturing company registered by the Manufacturing Company Directory published by the Statistics Centre Bureau of, 2010. The sample is determined by using purposive sampling technique, and the sample selected is a manufacturing company with criteria that have medium and large scale. From the results of hypothesis testing then some of the main findings are presented in this section. First, internal learning positively affects technological capabilities, indicating that ownership of tools and technologies is encouraged or enhanced by improving the internal learning process. The main findings of both studies indicate that external learning will encourage companies to increase their ownership of equipment and technology. Humans are recognized as controllers in the use and utilization of technology. This study is the first step to undertake the development of empirical studies by considering further factors that determine success in resource management and technology primarily through organizational learning. Furthermore, the findings of this study also indicate the factors of operating strategy that moderate ownership of tools and technology companies to performance. Lena Ellitan"Role of Learning Process in Capability Development and Business Performance of East Java Manufacturing Firms: Resources as Moderator" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-1 , December 2017, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd5877.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/management/strategic-management/5877/role-of-learning-process-in-capability-development-and-business-performance-of-east-java-manufacturing-firms-resources-as-moderator/lena-ellitan
The entrepreneurship, in today’s globalized economy, is linked with autonomy, venturing into new business, development of new products, pro-activeness, taking risks, innovation, strategic renewal, self-renewal, and competitive aggressiveness (Zahra and Garvis 1998). In this age of rapid developments in technology and the emerging global markets, the IT company has been able to utilize and develop its resources. The principles of corporate entrepreneurship are followed by prospering through the absorption of the pressures. It is a well known doctrine that the company’s performance is positively impacted by the involvement of corporate entrepreneurship (Wiklund 2009). The implication of this is by practicing entrepreneurship, the organizations would be successful in increasing the results that can be leading to the increase in GDP.
Read attachedpages about 3-M and their approach to innovationRes.docxmakdul
Read attachedpages about 3-M and their approach to innovation
Research one of 3M’s innovations.
Write a full two page paper in which you respond to the following questions:
1. How did the creative thinking process work in the development of this product? Describe what took place in each of the four steps.
2. Analyze what type of innovation this was—invention, extension, duplication, or synthesis. What characteristics of the innovation have led you to this conclusion?
3. Explain which of the sources of innovative ideas discussed in this week’s reading help account for this product’s success and why?
Include a minimum of two sources
The Entrepreneurial Mind-Set in Organizations: Corporate Entrepreneurship
Thus, 3M’s philosophy was born. Innovation is a numbers game: The more ideas, the better the chances for a successful innovation. In other words, to master innovation, companies must have a tolerance for failure. This philosophy has paid off for 3M. Antistatic videotape, trans- lucent dental braces, synthetic ligaments for knee surgery, heavy-duty reflective sheeting for construction signs, and, of course, Post-it notes are just some of the great innovations devel- oped by the organization. Overall, the company has a catalog of 60,000 products.40
Today, 3M follows a set of innovative rules that encourages employees to foster ideas. The key rules include the following:
•
Don’t kill a project. If an idea can’t find a home in one of 3M’s divisions, a staffer can devote 15 percent of his or her time to prove it is workable. For those who need seed money, as many as 90 Genesis grants of $50,000 are awarded each year.
• Tolerate failure. Encouraging plenty of experimentation and risk taking allows more chances for a new product hit. The goal: Divisions must derive 25 percent of sales from products introduced in the past five years. The target may be boosted to 30 percent in some cases.
• Keep divisions small. Division managers must know each staffer’s first name. When a division gets too big, perhaps reaching $250 million to $300 million in sales, it is split up.
• Motivate the champions. When a 3M employee has a product idea, he or she recruits an action team to develop it. Salaries and promotions are tied into the product’s progress. The champion has a chance to someday run his or her own product group or division.
• Stay close to the customer. Researchers, marketers, and managers visit with customers and routinely invite them to help brainstorm product ideas.
•
Share the wealth. Technology, wherever it is developed, belongs to everyone.41 3-4c structuring the Work environment
Structuring the Work environment
When establishing the drive to innovate in today’s corporations, one of the most critical steps is to invest heavily in an innovative environment. A top-level manager’s job is to create a work environment that is highly conducive to innovation and entrepreneurial behaviors. Within such an environment, each employee has the opport ...
Role of Learning Process in Capability Development and Business Performance o...ijtsrd
The purpose of this research is to analyze how the influence of internal learning of employees, external learning obtained from suppliers and consumers, and ownership of processes and equipment, on the performance of the company. This research also examines the role of human resources as moderator in the relationship between process ownership and equipment with performance. The research population that became the object of this research covers all manufacturing companies operating in Indonesia. The population is a manufacturing company registered by the Manufacturing Company Directory published by the Statistics Centre Bureau of, 2010. The sample is determined by using purposive sampling technique, and the sample selected is a manufacturing company with criteria that have medium and large scale. From the results of hypothesis testing then some of the main findings are presented in this section. First, internal learning positively affects technological capabilities, indicating that ownership of tools and technologies is encouraged or enhanced by improving the internal learning process. The main findings of both studies indicate that external learning will encourage companies to increase their ownership of equipment and technology. Humans are recognized as controllers in the use and utilization of technology. This study is the first step to undertake the development of empirical studies by considering further factors that determine success in resource management and technology primarily through organizational learning. Furthermore, the findings of this study also indicate the factors of operating strategy that moderate ownership of tools and technology companies to performance. Lena Ellitan"Role of Learning Process in Capability Development and Business Performance of East Java Manufacturing Firms: Resources as Moderator" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-1 , December 2017, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd5877.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/management/strategic-management/5877/role-of-learning-process-in-capability-development-and-business-performance-of-east-java-manufacturing-firms-resources-as-moderator/lena-ellitan
Role of Learning Process in Capability Development and Business Performance o...ijtsrd
The purpose of this research is to analyze how the influence of internal learning of employees, external learning obtained from suppliers and consumers, and ownership of processes and equipment, on the performance of the company. This research also examines the role of human resources as moderator in the relationship between process ownership and equipment with performance. The research population that became the object of this research covers all manufacturing companies operating in Indonesia. The population is a manufacturing company registered by the Manufacturing Company Directory published by the Statistics Centre Bureau of, 2010. The sample is determined by using purposive sampling technique, and the sample selected is a manufacturing company with criteria that have medium and large scale. From the results of hypothesis testing then some of the main findings are presented in this section. First, internal learning positively affects technological capabilities, indicating that ownership of tools and technologies is encouraged or enhanced by improving the internal learning process. The main findings of both studies indicate that external learning will encourage companies to increase their ownership of equipment and technology. Humans are recognized as controllers in the use and utilization of technology. This study is the first step to undertake the development of empirical studies by considering further factors that determine success in resource management and technology primarily through organizational learning. Furthermore, the findings of this study also indicate the factors of operating strategy that moderate ownership of tools and technology companies to performance. Lena Ellitan"Role of Learning Process in Capability Development and Business Performance of East Java Manufacturing Firms: Resources as Moderator" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-1 , December 2017, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd5877.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/management/strategic-management/5877/role-of-learning-process-in-capability-development-and-business-performance-of-east-java-manufacturing-firms-resources-as-moderator/lena-ellitan
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Focus on human resource in organizations regarded as a tool for organizations growth and profitability, strategic innovation, organizational and customer-oriented changes. This article attempts to explain the imperative strategic plan collective by patterns of thinking. The importance of strategic, long-term policy and imperative strategic plan collective is very clear to planners. Imperative strategic managers like to follow a similar and routine imperative strategic behavioral pattern. Imperative strategic plan collective, normally taken, as a part of imperative strategic planning, therefore also tends to run in cycles of around last years. Implementing tailored organization can give a competitive advantage and help foster goodwill toward focus on human resource approach. Studies on corporate organizational imperative strategic have possessed an increasing growth. This paper proposes a learning organization expectations method that considers tailored organization information. In todays tailored organization al environment, there are usually several products and services to fulfill certain functions. The rise of intense competition among the domestic and global markets has revealed the crucial role of organizational imperative strategic in actualization and maintenance of competitive privilege development in the imperative strategic organizations. Dr. Nasser Fegh-hi Farahmand"Focus on Human Resource as Improvement of the Flexible Manufacturing Operation of Organization" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-1 | Issue-4 , June 2017, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd2187.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/management/hrm-and-retail-business/2187/focus-on-human-resource-as-improvement-of-the-flexible-manufacturing-operation-of-organization/dr-nasser-fegh-hi-farahmand
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2. adapt, corporations need to enhance their innovation prowess and companies need to tap
into the creative power of their employees (Lee and Pati, 2017). The need for corporate
entrepreneurship is obvious, especially given the pressing circumstances that corporations
face today. These circumstances threaten a corporation’s productivity and growth potential,
and they include a rapid increase in the number of new and sophisticated competitors, a
sense of distrust in the conventional methods of corporate management, the downsizing of
major corporations and an exodus of key inventors (Kuratko et al., 2015; Miles and Covin,
2002).
To minimize the impact of the abovementioned circumstances, this paper explores
specific innovative strategies that corporations could adopt to enter new markets and
achieve growth (Zahra, 2015). Following these innovative strategies is important, because
doing otherwise would encourage stagflation, loss of personnel and the risk of becoming
completely obsolete (Kuratko, 2013). So what do these specific innovative strategies look
like? How can managers and executives implement the strategic approaches within a
corporate setting?
By organizing, integrating and evaluating previously published works in a
comprehensive literature review, this article aims to devise strategic approaches for
increasing corporate entrepreneurial behavior and identify the relationship between the
strategies and a corporation’s internal innovation performance. First, this paper argues that
corporations have a responsibility to practice these strategies. Although mergers and
acquisitions are useful organizational instruments for market expansion, corporate
entrepreneurship significantly enhances a company’s potential for success by encouraging
pro-activeness and risk-taking behavior (Sebora and Theerapatvong, 2010). Corporate
entrepreneurship can also improve economic productivity by introducing radical and
disruptive product/process innovations (Carree and Thurik, 2003). Second, this study shows
that the strategic approaches would not only help corporations become more innovative but
also bolster their organizational growth and profitability as well. Third, this paper contends
that corporations should be able to accept failure, whether from an individual or group
perspective. Rather than punish employees, companies must recognize that failure is a likely
result of innovation and be able to learn from it.
The purpose of this research is to explore the importance of corporate entrepreneurship
in our ever-industrializing world and the relationships between the strategic approaches and
internal innovation performance. This paper proposes a conceptual framework that
minimizes external mergers and acquisitions and focuses on improving internal innovation
performance. This research discusses the relationships among the inputs and outputs and
finds that internal innovation performance will increase and that employees will be more
inclined to demonstrate corporate entrepreneurial behavior once the strategic approaches
are implemented as inputs. Thus, when a firm seeks to obtain the outcomes of the strategic
framework, it is important to understand the following research questions:
RQ1. What key factors are necessary in enhancing internal innovation performance?
RQ2. What is the relationship between the strategic framework and corporate
entrepreneurial behavior?
RQ3. What are possible outcomes of the strategic approaches and how can they
influence future business development?
To establish a theoretical background, this paper first identifies a number of keywords used
in the literature search: corporate entrepreneurship, innovation and entrepreneurial
environment. This article then discusses the details of these keywords. These discussions
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3. will include their definitions and impacts on corporate entrepreneurship as a whole. Finally,
this paper identifies the resources used for the literature search. Electronic databases
available in many different university’s electronic libraries are used for this research. Such
databases include Harvard Business Review and The University of Chicago Press, as well as
journals, books, Google Scholar and other institutional resources.
Kuratko’s (2009) research is used as the foundation of this article, with additional input
emerging from the literature search to provide information on the inputs and outputs
associated with the strategic framework. The study of Morris et al. (2010) further illustrates
the significance of internal innovation performance and builds upon the relationships
between our strategic approaches and their respective outcomes. For instance, Morris et al.
(2010) discuss rules that are associated with several inputs within our strategic framework,
such as creating a market for talent and encouraging new voices to be heard.
2. Theoretical background
2.1 Corporate entrepreneurship
The concept of corporate entrepreneurship has been explored by many scholars (Amore
et al., 2013; Bai et al., 2016; Huse et al., 2005; Sharma and Chrisman, 2007; Morris et al., 2010;
Tian and Wang, 2014). Huse et al. (2005) investigate the characteristics of the modern
business environment and how they influence corporate innovation performance. Of another
perspective, Bai et al. (2016) argue that innovation performance is the result of networking
capability and that networking capability has a positive influence on the provision of
international business knowledge, which is essential to the innovation.
One of the most significant contributions of corporate entrepreneurial behavior is found
in the organizational learning processes that strengthen employees’ ability to analyze
markets and formulate new products (Zahra, 2015; Zahra et al., 1999). Nonetheless,
strategies that could increase corporate entrepreneurial behavior include the following:
develop a system of positive reinforcement, produce Innovation Teams (I-Teams), support
and foster an entrepreneurial environment, provide intra-capital for corporate entrepreneurs,
reduce organizational boundaries and facilitate top management support.
Han and Park (2017) state that if a firm has corporate entrepreneurship, innovation (i.e.
transformation of the existing firm, the birth of new business organization and innovation)
happens. In sum, corporate entrepreneurship plays a role to pursue to be a first mover from
a latecomer by encompassing the three phenomena (Han and Park, 2017). Therefore,
corporate entrepreneurship becomes an important role of inspiration for the happening of
innovation.
Corporations are accountable to their shareholders and have a responsibility to attain
their business and developmental goals. To do so, enterprises need to focus on aligning the
strategic approaches and process innovations, gaining economic value and first-mover
advantage in the process (Zadek, 2004). Simply focusing on the outputs-the benefits gained
from using this strategic framework-however, is not enough. Entrepreneurs and key
managers should wholly understand each of the strategic approaches, clarify the
relationships between the strategies and intrapreneurship and create an implementation
process that would maximize the firm’s internal innovation performance.
The definition of corporate entrepreneurship has evolved over the past couple of decades.
Some researchers define corporate entrepreneurship as a broad concept, while others define
it as a narrower concept of innovation. Kuratko (2009) contends that most researchers view
corporate entrepreneurship as a term that “refers to entrepreneurial activities [which] receive
organizational sanction and resource commitments for the purpose of innovation results”
(p. 55). Vanacker et al. (2017) provide a key definition of corporate entrepreneurship which
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4. characterizes this term as formal or informal activities aimed at creating new businesses in
established companies through product and process innovations and market developments.
These formal or informal activities may take place at the corporate, division, functional or
project levels as long as the unifying objective is to improve a company’s competitive
position and financial performance.
Furthermore, corporate entrepreneurship is extensively concerned with practice.
According to Morris et al. (2010), corporate entrepreneurship consists of two distinct domains:
corporate venturing and strategic entrepreneurship. The first domain, corporate venturing, is
the addition of new businesses or portions of new businesses via equity investments.
Corporate venturing can be accomplished through three implementations: internal corporate
venturing, cooperative corporate venturing and external corporate venturing (Morris et al.,
2010). The second domain, strategic entrepreneurship, is the integration of entrepreneurial and
strategic perspectives in developing and taking actions designed to create wealth (Hitt et al.,
2001). Like corporate venturing, strategic entrepreneurship also has many different areas
of implementations: strategic renewal, sustained regeneration, domain redefinition,
organizational rejuvenation and business model reconstruction (Morris et al., 2010).
2.2 Entrepreneurial environment
Grundstén (2004) defines entrepreneurial environment as the regional, physical,
psychological and social environment of the nascent entrepreneur. The four-dimensional
framework proposed by the study of Landstrom et al. (2016) characterizes an entrepreneurial
environment with several attributes, including accessibility of suppliers, proximity of
universities, accessibility to customers or markets, technically skilled labor force, presence
of experienced entrepreneurs and venture capital availability. These characteristics of
entrepreneurial environments were comprehensively analyzed by Martinez-Fierro et al.
(2016), who diagnosed the characteristics of the entrepreneurial environment and examined
whether a relationship exists between these characteristics and innovation performance.
Bird and Schjoedt (2017) and Miles and Covin (2002) further suggest that, for employees
to exhibit heightened entrepreneurial behavior, companies should provide nurturing and
information-sharing activities. Additionally, companies may also develop an entrepreneurial
environment that will not only assist innovative-minded employees in achieving their full
potential but also reduce the turnover rate of such individuals. Any attempt to foster
entrepreneurial behavior may focus on an employee’s perception of the entrepreneurial
environment, as this perception is critical for stressing the importance of management’s
commitment to the organization’s people and the innovative projects.
An inherent benefit of possessing an entrepreneurial environment is the free
communication among a firm’s founders, managers and employees (Zahra and Filatotchev,
2004). Social interaction between employees and employers generates supportive and
collaborative networks, driving internal innovation performance as a result. In addition,
having an entrepreneurial environment will not only inspire employees to innovate but also
motivate them to develop an entrepreneurial mindset, one that is crucial to the success of the
firm. Therefore, entrepreneurship is one of the key elements that will lead to a successful
business performance under highly uncertain business environment (Cho and Lee, 2018).
2.3 Innovation
Innovation has been the subject of extensive research; scholars in the past few decades have
examined innovation in regards to organizational structure, strategic management, and
economic wellbeing (Baregheh et al., 2009; Hitt et al., 2012; Huang and Li, 2017; Wong et al.,
2005). Damanpour (1991) contends that innovation can be a new product or service, an
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5. administrative system, or a new plan or program that pertains to organizational members.
Meanwhile, Van de Ven (2017) defines innovation as the development and implementation
of new ideas by people who over time engage in transactions with others within an
institutional order. In addition, according to Drucker (2002), innovation is the “specific
function of entrepreneurship [. . .] It is the means by which the entrepreneur either creates
new wealth-producing resources or endows existing resources with enhanced potential for
creating wealth” (p. 5).
Donkor et al. (2018) perform the study of innovation capability, strategic goals and
financial performance and find that a necessity for longer-term innovation perspectives and
a higher level of the importance of the application and assessment of strategic goals. Kim
et al. (2018) provide implications for the necessary of detailed methodology among
supporting policies for technical innovative enterprises and to establish innovative
strategies of enterprises. They indicate that innovative enterprise strategies are critical for
maintaining sustainable competitiveness and securing market share. Hence, strategic goals
have a positive and important relationship with innovation.
Instead of a single description of innovation, Rogers (1998) asserts that there are five
types of innovation:
(1) introduction of a new product or a qualitative change in an existing product;
(2) process innovations that are new to an industry;
(3) the opening of a new market;
(4) the development of new sources of supply for raw materials or other inputs, and
(5) changes in industrial organization.
Furthermore, Rogers (1998) believes that there can be a difference in the nature of
innovation. For example, an innovation can be characterized as either a radical innovation or
an incremental innovation. Radical innovation is the launching of inaugural breakthroughs.
It is a type of innovation that has significant impacts on a market and the economic
productivity of firms in that market. Radical innovations can also change the structure of
the market, create new markets or render existing products obsolete. Incremental
innovation, on the other hand, refers to the systematic evolution of a product or service into
newer or larger markets (Dent, 1990). Structure, financing and formal systems are typical of
a corporation that can help implement incremental innovation (Kuratko, 2009).
2.4 Innovation teams (I-Teams)
I-Teams are internal corporate teams formulated for the purpose of creating new
innovations (Kuratko, 2009). I-Teams have been recognized as a productivity breakthrough
of the twenty-first century, hence its increasing popularity and recognition in academic
literature (Kratzer et al., 2006; Pearce and Ensley, 2004).
According to Kuratko (2009), I-Teams are quite semiautonomous. They have their own
budget and management, and they are generally free to make decisions within broad
guidelines. In fact, I-Teams are often separated from other parts of a corporation, especially
those involved in day-to-day operations. Apparently, corporate management professionals
want to prevent the unit from engaging in procedures that can stifle innovation activities.
However, if the innovation later proves to be successful, the I-Team will be integrated into
the larger organization, eventually receiving the same treatment as the other outputs of an
organization (Ireland et al., 2006).
In examining entrepreneurial development within corporations, Reich (2002) finds that
entrepreneurial thinking is diffused throughout the company, not just within the sole
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6. province of its management. Reich (2002) identifies this phenomenon as collective
entrepreneurship and defines this term as follows:
In collective entrepreneurship, individual skills are integrated into a group; this collective
capacity to innovate becomes something greater than the sum of its parts. Over time, as the group
works through various problems and approaches, they learn about each other’s abilities. They
learn how they can help one another perform better, what each can contribute to a particular
project, and how they can best take advantage of one another’s experience. Each participant is
constantly on the lookout for small adjustments that will speed and smooth the evolution of the
whole. The net result of many such small-scale adaptations, effected throughout the organization,
is to propel the enterprise forward (p. 81).
With the above definition in mind, it is important to add that I-Teams accomplish the main
objectives of collective entrepreneurship. I-Teams offer corporations the opportunity to use
the talents of individuals without losing a sense of teamwork (Kuratko, 2009).
3. Study design
3.1 Study methodology
For this research, we first identified key words to use in the literature search: corporate
entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial environment, innovation and innovation teams. Second,
we identified the databases to search; all of the several electronic databases available,
including the University of Chicago’s electronic library, including both journal and book
sources, were used, as well as Google Scholar and online library resources.
3.2 Study framework
To achieve the desired results-heightened rates of internal entrepreneurial behavior –
corporations need to integrate the strategic approaches into every aspect and operation of
the organization. As the effects of the six strategic approaches may not be easily analyzed, a
strategic framework examining the inputs, process and outputs could be useful.
Indeed, a strategic framework, detailed in Figure 1, with the six strategic approaches for
increasing internal innovation performance as the inputs, the adaptation and implementation
of these strategic approaches as the process, and the beneficial effects on the corporation as
systematic outputs could provide a clear illustration of our research inquiries. The study
trusts that the strategic approaches would positively influence a corporation’s internal
innovation performance and serve a proactive role in stimulating economic prosperity.
Although the benefits of the proposed strategies could be felt in almost any corporation,
the effects would be maximized if the inputs are used in a supportive environment where
there is a clear link between the strategic approaches and entrepreneurial behavior.
Furthermore, the outputs are not mutually exclusive but interrelated in such a way that
corporate management could use all or a combination of the strategies to simultaneously
direct and control innovation.
4. Results
4.1 Relationships between the strategies and corporate entrepreneurship
According to the strategic framework, the six strategic approaches serving as innovative
inputs are examined below:
To develop a system of positive reinforcement: By rewarding employees for
entrepreneurial behavior, they will be encouraged to contribute to the success of the
corporation. Gogia and Soni (2017) believe that successful organizations must provide
rewards for outstanding performance because entrepreneurship relies on individuals who
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7. think and behave as risk takers. Developing a system of positive reinforcement would
stimulate productivity and communicate the importance of innovative behavior.
To sustain I-Teams: The primary focus for I-Teams is producing new innovations.
Corporate management may assign employees from different backgrounds, such as
marketing, sales and product development, to build on the organization’s global business
strengths and areas with potential for growth. One advantage of I-Teams is directed
focus on research and development instead of daily operations. I-Team’s principal
responsibility is cultivating and executing an entrepreneurial idea, and its behavior is much
like a small business operating within a larger one (Kuratko, 2009).
To support and foster an entrepreneurial environment: A critical step in attaining higher
internal innovation performance, especially in today’s corporate environment, is to invest
heavily in entrepreneurial activities that would facilitate the exchange of new ideas. Brazeal
(1993) asserts that corporate entrepreneurship is an internal process that embraces the
ultimate goal of growth through the development of innovative products, processes and
technologies. Thus, organizations might concentrate on the joint function of individual and
organizational factors. Individual factors, such as values and behavioral orientation, will
merge with organizational factors, such as structure and reward system, to determine an
employee’s job attitudes and behavioral intentions (Brazeal, 1993).
To provide intra-capital for corporate entrepreneurs: Intra-capital is a special kind of
capital that should be set aside for corporate entrepreneurs to use whenever they need
money to further their innovative ideas. This type of capital can be viewed as a sort of
Figure 1.
Strategic framework
for increasing
corporate internal
innovation
performance
PROCESS
• Adapting and implementing the
corporate strategic inputs into
corporations.
INPUTS
Corporate innovation strategies:
(1) To develop a system of positive reinforcement.
(2) To sustain I-Teams.
(3) To support and foster an entrepreneurial environment.
(4) To provide intra-capital for corporate entrepreneurs.
(5) To reduce organizational boundaries.
(6) To facilitate top management support.
OUTPUTS
(1) Motivating individuals to engage in innovative behavior.
(2) Concentrating entrepreneurial ventures through a newly minted organization
within a corporation.
(3) Helping innovative-minded people to reach their full potential.
(4) Rewarding a corporate entrepreneur.
(5) Encouraging people to look at the organization from a broad perspective.
(6) Educating employees about corporate entrepreneurship.
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8. reward for the corporate entrepreneur. Intra-capital serves as an incentive for innovative
behavior (Kanter, 1994).
To reduce organizational boundaries: Byrne et al. (2016) suggest four areas that
corporations should focus on to break down organizational boundaries and facilitate
innovative behavior. The first area is encouraging entrepreneurial activity by using
financial incentives instead of stringent rules and procedures. The second area is the proper
control of human resource policies. Managers in the corporation need to remain in positions
long enough to familiarize themselves with an industry or a particular division.
Occasionally moving managers within a corporation – also known as selected rotation –
could expose them to different but related territories. The third area of importance is to have
faith in entrepreneurial initiatives. Many innovative projects take time to gain momentum,
and corporate entrepreneurs and key managers should understand that failure will
inevitably occur and that they provide excellent learning opportunities. The final area is to
bet on people instead of analysis. When analyzing a project’s progression, always critique in
a supportive style. A friendly, yet encouraging critique would help corporate entrepreneurs
realize their errors and complete a more beneficial self-analysis.
To facilitate top management support: Top management support is crucial in developing
entrepreneurial intentions among employees. This support leads employees to believe that
entrepreneurship is a part of the role set of all organizational members. According to Swink
(2000), integrating top management support (using incentives such as financial rewards,
recognition and work discretion) with other strategic practices has been correlated with
better time-based performance, design quality and financial performance.
4.2 Relationships between the implementation of the innovative strategies and their
outcomes
Although many scholars have applied strategic approaches to a variety of scenarios, such as
improving economic productivity, enhancing a firm’s competitive edge and predicting
consumer behavior, there is still much to be explored regarding corporate entrepreneurship.
Kuratko (2009) points out three advantages to developing a corporate entrepreneurial
philosophy. First, this philosophy leads to the development of new products and services,
which helps the organization to grow and gain a competitive advantage. A second benefit is
a revolution in corporate management – the reduction of organizational barriers and
promotion of an entrepreneurial mindset among employees. The third advantage is that an
entrepreneurial philosophy promotes an environment conducive to innovators and helps the
corporation retain its best and brightest employees. But how exactly do the strategic inputs
proposed affect corporate entrepreneurship? This paper lists the six resulting outputs below
and briefly describes their respective impacts on corporate entrepreneurship.
Motivating individuals to engage in innovative behavior. Developing a system of positive
reinforcement encourages employees to engage in innovative behavior. Positive
reinforcement, as well as work discretion and autonomy, helps to retain key innovators and
prevent the loss of human capital to competition (Kuratko, 2009).
Concentrating entrepreneurial ventures through a newly minted organization within a
corporation. I-Teams hold a strong potential for producing innovative results. They often
develop new knowledge, advance technologies and create process innovations that improve
a firm’s products or services. In fact, this modern breed of work team, often referred to as
self-directing, self-managing and high performing, can be a very effective strategy for many
corporations (Francis and Sandberg, 2000; Kratzer et al., 2004).
Helping innovative-minded people to reach their full potential. An entrepreneurial
environment is crucial to a firm’s success. Having this unique idea-driven atmosphere, in
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9. which individual motivating factors are meticulously melded with organizational factors of
structure and reward, could strengthen an employee’s organizational commitment and job
satisfaction significantly. Indeed, the tremendous support given to employees could
stimulate entrepreneurial intentions and, ultimately, assist them in realizing their true
potential (Brazeal, 1993).
Rewarding a corporate entrepreneur. Intra-capital gives corporate entrepreneurs a strong
incentive to innovate. In fact, intra-capital is mutually beneficial, an employee who obtains
financial and other intangible rewards for his or her innovations will be more inclined to
exhibit entrepreneurial behavior in the future (Kuratko, 2009).
Encouraging people to look at the organization from a broad perspective. Organizational
boundaries not only prevent people from looking at problems outside of their own jobs but
also create a dependence on narrow job descriptions and performance standards. Employees
restricted by these organizational boundaries do not have the autonomy to execute their own
creative ideas. They are limited to nearsighted goals and often do not pay attention to the
company’s long-run performance (Hornsby et al., 2009; Hornsby et al., 2002). By focusing on
the four areas discussed by Byrne et al. (2016) and breaking down such boundaries,
employees are encouraged to look at the organization and their own jobs from a broader
perspective.
Educating employees about entrepreneurship. According to Raposo and Paço (2011), an
entrepreneurship education does not simply teach someone how to run a business or sub-
organization but also emphasize certain beliefs, values and attitudes that are characteristic
of an entrepreneur. Educating employees about entrepreneurship can reap additional
benefits, such as promoting other innovative ventures, stimulating entrepreneurial skills
and cultivating more resilient attitudes toward risk.
5. Implications
Innovation is a key factor to success for many businesses. As businesses seek to improve
their productivity and ensure sustained growth, they will need to improve their capacity to
innovate. Therefore, it would be worthwhile to note additional corporate entrepreneurship
strategies, as such strategies may not only benefit a firm’s internal innovation performance
but also advance the firm’s productivity, marketability and competitive advantage (Tseng
and Tseng, 2016).
Future research should also verify the factors and directions of the strategic approaches
suggested in Figure 1, as there may be discrepancies between various corporations or
industries. In that regard, it would be interesting to research the effects our strategic
approaches will have on various types of firms. In applying our strategic approaches to a
small business or a limited liability company, for example, will the resulting internal
innovation performance be different compared to a corporation? If so, what strategies could
other types of businesses use to further stimulate its entrepreneurial performance?
Additionally, future investigations could examine the outcomes posed in the strategic
framework. Since different effects could result from a specific strategic input, we believe it
would be worthwhile to investigate the process that leads to this divergence. This also
points to a need to solidify the link between the strategic inputs and outputs, which could
help corporate management execute the strategic approaches that would maximize their
firm’s internal innovation performance. Finally, as this literature review focuses
predominantly on firms in the high-technology industry, examining innovative approaches
for firms in other industries would be worthwhile. We believe that corporations belonging to
different industries may exhibit differing attitudes toward internal innovation and that our
strategic approaches may have varied effects on firms in other industries.
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10. 6. Conclusion
6.1 Contributions
First, this research contributes to both theory and practice by analyzing the relationship
between corporate entrepreneurial approaches and internal innovation performance.
Without the use of external methods for innovation, such as mergers and acquisitions,
corporations cannot maintain the innovativeness, pro-activeness and risk-taking behavior of
employees unless they focused on internal innovation. The advantages of using innovative
strategies are notable, as corporate entrepreneurship has proven to facilitate innovative
behavior within many globally recognized corporations and sustain corporate
competitiveness (Sebora and Theerapatvong, 2010). Accordingly, many institutions from
around the world have been paying heightened attention to corporate entrepreneurship,
partly because of the inherent benefits of internal innovation and competitive advantage but
also due to heightened economic productivity that could result from these means (China
Productivity Center, 2006).
Another contribution of this research is sharing the corporate entrepreneurial vision. We
hope that our study will help others understand the importance of corporate entrepreneurship
and develop new strategic approaches for enhancing internal innovation performance. The
systematic framework we propose could act as a guide for corporate management. Instead of
relentlessly pursuing the objective of generating higher corporate entrepreneurial performance,
management could use our framework to focus on the details of this goal. The visions of this
literature review are to promote corporate entrepreneurship and build an environment
conducive to innovators. By stating specific objectives and processes for applying the strategic
approaches, we have provided the direction for future study and practice.
6.2 Recommendations
From this research, we find that when the six strategic approaches are used as inputs, the
internal innovation performance of corporations may increase.
By implementing the strategic approaches, corporate management professionals can realize
their entrepreneurial intentions for the firm and maintain their responsibility to shareholders in
terms of other business and development goals. The innovative techniques, illustrated in
Figure 1, include developing a system of positive reinforcement, sustaining I-Teams,
supporting and fostering an entrepreneurial environment, providing intra-capital for corporate
entrepreneurs, reducing organizational boundaries and facilitating top management support.
This study recommends that corporations take the initiative to learn and apply these
strategic approaches and obtain the general outcome of implementation, which is increasing
corporate entrepreneurial behavior. The general outcome is the result of several small,
specific outcomes, however, and these specific outcomes include motivating individuals to
engage in innovative behavior, concentrating entrepreneurial ventures through a newly
minted organization within a corporation, helping innovative-minded people to reach their
full potential, rewarding a corporate entrepreneur, encouraging people to look at the
organization from a broad perspective, and educating employees about entrepreneurship.
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About the authors
Cheng Tseng is currently a sophomore at the University of Chicago studying Economics and
Computer Science. He is a research assistant at the Booth School of Business, and his research
interests include entrepreneurship, business dynamism and behavioral economics. Besides
conducting research and attending school, Cheng also enjoys playing tennis and running cross-
country. Cheng Tseng is the corresponding author and can be contacted at: ctseng1@uchicago.edu
Chien-Chi Tseng is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship in the School of Business and
Management at Morgan State University. His research lies in the broad topics of entrepreneurship,
innovation, organizational development and organizational learning. His articles have been published
in the International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets, Journal of Entrepreneurship,
Management, Innovation, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, etc.
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