Challenges of Corporate Entrepreneurship in the Disruptive Age

Donald F. Kuratko is a prominent scholar and national leader in the field of entrepreneurship. He has published over 250 articles in leading publications, covering critical aspects of entrepreneurship. A pioneering entrepreneurship educator and leader, Kuratko has established award winning academic programs and organizations, including the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers, impacting hundreds of thousands students.Sherry Hoskinson is an established leader in university entrepreneurship and technology commercialization. Hoskinson is attributed with several award-winning models and approaches to entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education and has been an active and inspired ecosystem developer. Hoskinson retired from university roles and is now a partner in a private equity firm and chief executive officer of a technology company.

Contributed by entrepreneurship researchers from the US, the eight essays in this volume examine issues involved in corporate entrepreneurship in the disruptive innovation age. They address entrepreneurship in established firms; the effect of entrepreneurial orientation on balancing exploration and exploitation in the form of organizational ambidexterity; integrating corporate entrepreneurship and organization development through learning and leadership; key challenges faced by corporate entrepreneurial leaders in the age of disruptive innovation; corporate entrepreneurship as a mental model that allows firms to adapt to new competitive landscapes by facilitating the development of new cognitive scripts and schemas when lost in a rapidly changing competitive domain; how innovation teams suffer because management fails to develop a change strategy and prepare managers and participants to work in teams, with discussion of the elements needed to prepare team members; how designers and organizations can leverage design for corporate innovation; and technological firms' success in corporate innovation.

• Introduction. The Challenges of Corporate Entrepreneurship in the Disruptive Age; Donald F. Kuratko, Sherry Hoskinson Chapter 1. Unpacking Corporate Entrepreneurship: A Critique and Extension; Minet Schindehutte, Michael H. Morris, Donald F. Kuratko Chapter 2. Entrepreneurial Orientation and Ambidexterity: Literature Review, Challenges, and Agenda for Future Research; Younggeun Lee, Patrick M. Kreiser Chapter 3. Integrating Corporate Entrepreneurship and Organization Development through Learning and Leadership; Erik Monsen, Alan D. Boss Chapter 4. Corporate Entrepreneurial Leadership: Addressing Critical Challenges in a Disruptive Age; Donald F. Kuratko, Emily Neubert Chapter 5. Corporate Entrepreneurship as a Survival Routine; Robert P. Garrett, Jr., Tommie Welcher Chapter 6. Critical Elements of Team Formation to Enhance Organizational Innovation; Jeffrey S. Hornsby Chapter 7. Effectively Leveraging Design for Corporate Innovation; Travis J. Brown Chapter 8. A Practitioner Review of Technological Firms' Success in Corporate Innovation; Harrison R. Holt