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International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing

 

Special Issue on: "Corporate Entrepreneurship"

Guest Editors:
Sascha Alexander Peters, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
Erik Monsen, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Germany

This special issue focuses on entrepreneurial initiatives beginning inside existing organisations, ranging from entrepreneurial acts of individual employees to strategic renewal of the entire organisation. Corporate entrepreneurship has been defined as “the process whereby an individual or group of individuals, in association with an existing organisation, create a new organisation or instigate renewal or innovation within that organisation” (Sharma & Chrisman, 1999). In general, these processes and actions need to be proactive, innovative, and involve risk-taking in order to be considered entrepreneurial (Miller, 1983). The goals of these actions can be long-term “organisational development” and “cultural change”, mid-term “strategic benefits” and “real-option development”, and short-term “quick financial returns” (Miles & Covin, 2002). We expect our understanding of corporate entrepreneurship to evolve through the new concepts developed in this special issue.

Subject Coverage
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• History and evolution of corporate entrepreneurship
• Organisational structure and design
• Entrepreneurial growth and performance
• Entrepreneurial experimentation
• Corporate creativity
• Motivating intrapreneurship
• Staffing new corporate ventures
• Corporate venture capital
• Corporate venturing
• Strategic alliances and joint ventures
• Intra- and exopreneurship
• Strategic entrepreneurship
• Strategic renewal
• International corporate entrepreneurship

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page

Important Dates

First paper submission deadline: 15 March, 2009

Notification of acceptance for second review process: 15 June, 2009

Submission of reworked papers: 15 September, 2009

Notification of final acceptance: 15 October, 2009