Title: Adoption of corporate entrepreneurship: managing domestic and global competitiveness through the lens of entrepreneurial orientation

Authors: Maheshkumar P. Joshi

Addresses: Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, School of Business, George Mason University, Fairfax VA 22030, USA

Abstract: The concept of corporate entrepreneurship (CE) is examined for its applicability through the lens of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) as presented by Lumpkin and Dess (1996, 2001) in an international setting. We focus on specific contextual variables that may play a role in determining the behaviour of established firms towards the adoption of CE in India. Indian firms were highly regulated and highly protected prior to the 1991 economic policy of the Government of India. Our framework proposes that depending on the varying contextual situations, the starting point or the early acceptance of the adoption of EO dimensions is different among diverse categories of well established firms when experiencing changes in the market conditions depending upon whether they are competing in a domestic or global context.

Keywords: entrepreneurship orientation; corporate entrepreneurship; emerging economies; India; economic liberalisation; business groups; competition; small businesses; small firms; domestic competitiveness; global competitiveness.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBEM.2016.077582

International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets, 2016 Vol.8 No.3, pp.307 - 323

Received: 04 Apr 2015
Accepted: 02 Nov 2015
Published online: 06 Jul 2016 *

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