Corporate Entrepreneurship: A Critical Challenge for Educators and Researchers

Abstract

The world is in the midst of a new wave of technological disruption with entrepreneurship and innovation as the catalysts. Yet, organizations struggle with the proper strategies to initiate innovative activity among their people. Corporate entrepreneurship (CE) is a term used to describe entrepreneurial behavior inside established midsized and large organizations. The value of CE lies in the extent to which it becomes a strategy to engage in an ongoing process of entrepreneurial actions to achieve a competitive advantage. Moreover, a lack of innovative (or entrepreneurial) actions in today’s global economy could be a recipe for failure. Because the next generation of business students will be focusing on major corporations for initial positions, this article examines the domain of CE, how pedagogy can be developed for the classroom, and the emerging future topics that demonstrate the continuing importance of CE for teaching and research.