An exploration of corporate entrepreneurship : venturing signatures and their underlying dynamics

The primary goal of this work is to broadly explore the factors influencing corporate entrepreneurship and to examine how its many elements can be linked together. A broad reading of the published literature on corporate entrepreneurship provides numerous frameworks and recommendations. When gathered together many of the recommendations are inconsistent or conflict with one another. The concept of a "venture signature" which evolves into a detailed look at the underlying dynamics of venturing is proposed as a way to examine corporate entrepreneurship and better identify critical influencing factors. This work consists of an extensive review of published material which forms the basis of a set of recommendations, trade-offs, and dynamics from which a "venture signature" is created. This is followed by a series of interviews with personnel from eight corporations with venturing histories that were both successful and mixed (some successes and some failures). The venture signatures for each are constructed and then compared and contrasted element by element. Key lessons and advice from the interviews are captured as part of this analysis.

Department dc:contributor.department

Sloan School of Management.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2005

Author dc:creator

• Furst, Michael R

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Edward Roberts.

• Sloan School of Management.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/32116

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/32116