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Managing a portfolio of corporate venture units : challenges in achieving within-unit focus and between-unit coordination

Burgers, Henri; Shah, Chintan; Scholten, Victor - 2010

Principal Topic: There is increasing recognition that the organizational configurations of corporate venture units should depend on the types of ventures the unit seeks to develop (Burgelman, 1984; Hill and Birkinshaw, 2008). Distinction have been made between internal and external as well as...

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Is the sum more than the corporate entrepreneurship parts? the different effects of social capital on innovation, venturing, and renewal processes

Burgers, Henri; Jansen, Justin; Van den Bosch, Frans; … - 2009

Principal Topic Although corporate entrepreneurship is of vital importance for long-term firm survival and growth … (Zahra and Covin, 1995), researchers still struggle with understanding how to manage corporate entrepreneurship activities …. Corporate entrepreneurship consists of three parts: innovation, venturing, and renewal processes (Guth and Ginsberg, 1990 …

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For the better or the worse? The impact of business idea changes on new venture performance and novelty

Burgers, Henri; Sawang, Sukanlaya - 2011

Should new ventures stick to their knitting once they start commercialising or should they engage in frequent changes of their business idea? In this paper we argue that new ventures still need to learn their way in the early phases of commercialisation and that changes are good, but subject to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438274

Who is the corporate entrepreneur? Insights from opportunity discovery and Creation Theory

Burgers, Henri; Van De Vrande, Vareska - 2011

Recent research has begun to address and even compare nascent entrepreneurship and nascent corporate entrepreneurship … how we define corporate entrepreneurship. We extend (corporate) entrepreneurship literature to the opportunity … identification phase by providing a framework to classify different types of corporate entrepreneurship. Through analysis of a large …

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The differential effects of organizational antecedents on dimensions of corporate entrepreneurship

Burgers, Henri - 2009

corporate entrepreneurship: innovation, venturing or strategic renewal. We argue that structural differentiation may help … components of corporate entrepreneurship, yet the effect is moderated by integration mechanisms. Interunit connectedness has a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438325

Building for competitive advantage in early stage start-ups : the role of entrepreneurial capabilities

Steffens, Paul R.; Burgers, Henri - 2009

entrepreneurship and RBV-theories by showing how entrepreneurial capabilities lead to competitive advantages in nascent and early …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438326

Structural differentiation and corporate venturing : the moderating role of formal and informal integration mechanisms

Burgers, Henri; Jansen, Justin; Van den Bosch, Frans; … - 2009

Research has suggested that corporate venturing is crucial to strategic renewal and firm performance, yet scholars still debate the appropriate organizational configurations to facilitate the creation of new businesses in existing organizations. Our study investigates the effectiveness of...

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