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 Special Issue on

Corporate Entrepreneurship

Call for Papers

Guest Editors: Andrew Corbett, Jeff Covin, Gina O'Connor and Chris Tucci

Submissions due September 10, 2010

The field of Corporate Entrepreneurship as a focus of scholarly attention has grown and become increasingly complex in recent years.  Corporate Entrepreneurship research focuses on ways that companies engage in new business creation to grow, replace or augment shrinking businesses and thereby sustain or create shareholder value.  Its objective is strategic renewal based on innovation, and therefore is a subject of concern to readers of and contributors to the Journal of Product Innovation Management. 

From its origins in the scholarly literature in the 1970's and 1980's with Gifford Pinchot's (1985) term of "Intrapreneuring" to communicate the role of individuals who break the norms of traditional organizational cultures in order to bring about new businesses, and Norm Fast's (1978) demonstration that corporate Venturing units fail to survive more than approximately four years, evidence of increasing sophistication in organizations regarding CE is emerging.  Coincidentally, scholarly theory is also maturing in this domain, moving from a focus on champions and mavericks to strategic, capability-based, multi-faceted views of CE. 

            We invite scholars to continue this line of development through this special issue of JPIM. Organizational approaches to corporate rejuvenation, renewal and organic growth are the theme.  In particular, we seek contributions to theory that are based on data.  Special Issue topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

·         Impact of CE initiatives on organizational performance.

·         Organizational structure approaches to CE

·         Talent  selection, development and retention for CE

·         The role of Corporate Venturing (investments in external companies) in organizational renewal

·         Portfolio approaches to Corporate Entrepreneurship

·         Risk(financial or individual career level) and corporate Entrepreneurship

·         Contingency approaches to CE: Variation in CE practices across contextual environments (industry clockspeed and dynamism, corporate diversification levels, organizational turnover rates, etc.).

·         Leadership for organizational renewal through CE and linkage of CE to corporate strategy

Manuscript submissions should comply with typical JPIM style guidelines.  Please send submissions electronically, with a cover letter to:

Prof. Gina O'Connor

Lally School of Management and Technology

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Troy, New York USA

oconng@rpi.edu