 Examining the Technical Corporate Entrepreneurs’ Motivation: Voices from the FieldMatthew R. Marvel, Abbie Griffin, John Hebda and Bruce Vojak Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2007, vol. 31, issue 5, 753-768 Abstract: Prior research has proposed five conditions that support corporate entrepreneurship: rewards, management support, resources including time, organizational structures (at the macro level), and risk acceptance. This article investigates the sufficiency of these conditions in motivating individual scientists or engineers who have created and commercialized multiple breakthrough innovations in mature corporations—or technical corporate entrepreneurs. Using in–depth interviews with technical corporate entrepreneurs and human resource managers, we explore both how they are motivated and whether there is concurrence between how they say they are motivated and how their human resource managers perceive that they are motivated. We find the framework applicable but incomplete relative to motivating these individuals. The additional dimensions of appropriate work design (at the micro level) and their intrinsic motivation to innovate need to be considered in supporting technical corporate entrepreneurship. Further, we find that an important disparity exists between what technical corporate entrepreneurs say motivates them and the perceptions of their human resource manger. Date: 2007 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:entthe:v:31:y:2007:i:5:p:753-768 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2007.00198.x Access Statistics for this article More articles in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice |
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