Strategies for fostering corporate entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship and Corporate Governance

This paper explores the relationship between the theory of the firm and the theory of financial markets. I begin with Mises’s claim that the defining feature of an industrialized, market economy is the use of financial markets to allocate capital among firms and among industries. This presupposes a market for the ownership and control of productive assets. Unfortunately, the Austrian theory of ...

Corporate Entrepreneurship: How?

Corporate Entrepreneurship and Creation of Value

It has increasingly been recognized that appropriate theory based measures are required in entrepreneurial research (Smith, Gannon, & Sapienza, 1989). However to date, the study of corporate entrepreneurship (CE) has principally used input-based measures such as accounting results, which may not provide an accurate picture of the firm’s performance. This study advances the output-based measure ...

Corporate Entrepreneurship: a Strategic and Structural Perspective

Recently there has been a growing interest in the use of corporate entrepreneurship as a means for corporations to enhance the innovative abilities of their employees and, at the same time, increase corporate success through the creation of new corporate ventures. However, the creation of corporate activity is difficult since it involves radically changing internal organisational behaviour patt...

Strategies for Fostering HPV Vaccine Acceptance

Vaccines that protect against infection with the types of human papillomavirus (HPV) commonly associated with cervical cancer (HPV 16 and 18) and genital warts (HPV 6 and 11) are expected to become available in the near future. Because HPV vaccines are prophylactic, they must be administered prior to exposure to the virus, ideally during preadolescence or adolescence. The young age of the targe...