Abstract In an attempt to become more flexible and responsive, corporates increasingly collaborate with start-ups. By doing so, hope make a transition towards entrepreneurial organization or rejuvenate their organizational culture working practices. We present the results of multiple case study in which we compare eight corporate—start-up collaborations that achieved different success rates ter...

We report on the prevalence and patterns of non-farm enterprises in six sub-Saharan African countries, and study their performance in terms of labor productivity, survival and exit, using the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study - Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA). Rural households operate enterprises due to both push and pull factors and tend to do so predominantly in eas...

While western corporate operating procedures were adequate in a world where resource consumption was dominated by a small segment of the population, their application on a global scale is not sustainable. At the same time, the inefficiencies inherent in industry in developing and lesser developed countries is also not an option as global consumption increases. New corporate operating procedures...

Corporate governance has been in the recent years one of the most debated issues in conventional economic approaches. Agency theory combined with financial indicators has particularly contributed to the development of shareholder value as a key concept in companies’ governance both at a theoretical and empirical level. In this paper, we argue that an evolutionary perspective can be developed on...

The aim of this paper is to examine whether generational involvement and perceived technological opportunities affect the corporate entrepreneurship family firms in Lebanon. Using a sample 85 Lebanese firms, our results suggest that family-business-related characteristics strategic planning have positive relationship with entrepreneurship. Our study provides important insights regulators practi...

Corporate entrepreneurship (CE)has emergedas an important strategy forhotels in recent years, allowing rejuvenation of internal processes and activities for improved performance. Although CE is instigated by senior management, middle managers carry out their instructions and hence have a critical role in its success. This conceptual paper evaluates the antecedents or factors that may impact on ...