Intrapreneurship: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive

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Researchers increasingly recognize that entrepreneurial employees, intrapreneurs, play a critical role in innovation. As with regular entrepreneurship, however, the value of intrapreneurial activity depends on the firm-specific and societal reward structures that intrapreneurs face. Ideally, these rules of the game are such that they reward intrapreneurship that is beneficial for the firm and the economy. When this is not the case, intrapreneurship can be beneficial for the firm but not for society, damaging for the firm yet beneficial for society, or downright destructive. We offer a taxonomy describing how society's rules and firm rules interact to produce different intrapreneurial outcomes.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IFN Working Paper ; No. 1367

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Entrepreneurship ; Corporate Culture; Diversity; Social Responsibility ; Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements ; Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
• Subject: Intrapreneurship ; Entrepreneurship ; Entrepreneurial behavior

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Elert, Niklas ; Stenkula, Mikael
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
• (where): Stockholm
• (when): 2020

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/240510
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET