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Does Corporate Entrepreneurship Influence Innovation in Service Firms?

  • Cardiff University
  • Hong Kong Baptist University

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3 Scopus citations

Abstract

Most innovation research tends to focus on manufacturing situations, yet in the 1990s more innovations occur in retail and service businesses. Numerous factors may lead to innovation in the service context. This paper focuses on the relationship between one such variable, namely corporate entrepreneurship, and innovation in service firms. In particular, this paper asks to what extent the service firm that fosters entrepreneurial behaviour benefits in terms of innovations. Executives from a cross-section of firms were surveyed by mail. Results showed that there was no significant relationship between corporate entrepreneurship and the level of innovation. Thus a culture of corporate entrepreneurship within the firm probably provides a healthier environment for innovations to be developed, but it is not enough.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDevelopments in Marketing Science
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages639-645
Number of pages7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameDevelopments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science
ISSN (Print)2363-6165
ISSN (Electronic)2363-6173

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
    SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Keywords

  • Corporate Entrepreneurship
  • Harvard Business Review
  • Product Development Process
  • Service Firm
  • Strategic Management Journal

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