Provides the introduction to the special issue of this journal focused on corporate entrepreneurship including the state of theory, methods, and findings. The goal of this special issue was to facilitate progress in theory development on corporate entrepreneurship. This introduction presents a...

While many managers face the challenge of lower profits in increasingly competitive and commoditized industries, a few firms break out as market value leaders generating superior growthand shareholder returns. How do these firms break out of the commoditization trap? In this paper we propose...

We examine how ties to different kinds of corporate venture capital (CVC) investors help new ventures overcome the liabilities of market newness they encounter when seeking to undergo an initial public offering (IPO). We analyze a sample of 315 IPO firms with ties to CVC investors and find that...

Recommended readings (Machine generated): Henry R. Feeser and Gary E. Willard (1990), 'Founding Strategy and Performance: A Comparison of High and Low Growth High Tech Firms', Strategic Management Journal, 11 (2), February, 87-98 -- Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and Claudia Bird Schoonhoven (1990),...

This article addresses two important questions: First, what has been the overall track record of internal corporate venturing? Second, why do some organizations do much better at internal corporate venturing than others? After discussing the paradoxical nature of corporate entrepreneurship and...