In today's business landscape, the familiar traditional corporation has been augmented by new species such as joint ventures, strategic alliances, and franchise chains. The properties of these new species, termed hybrid forms, are distinctly different from the traditional corporation. In this...

According to S. Venkataraman's essay in this volume"Stakeholder Value Equilibration and the Entrepreneurial Process," thepower of the corporation to exploit stakeholders is limited by theentrepreneurial discovery process. This process comes in two forces, weakand strong. Of particular interest...