Corporate Entrepreneurship: How to Create a Thriving Entrepreneurial Spirit Throughout Your Company

Table of contents

1. Title Page
2. Copyright Page
3. Dedication
4. Contents
5. Preface
6. Part One Managing Corporate Entrepreneurship
   1. 1 Entrepreneurship and Corporate Entrepreneurship
      1. Introduction
      2. An Overview of Entrepreneurship
      3. Entrepreneurship Today
      4. Corporate Entrepreneurship
      5. Social Entrepreneurship
      6. Entrepreneur versus Manager
      7. The Entrepreneurial Process
      8. Identification and Evaluation of the Opportunity
      9. Development of the Business Plan
      10. Determine and Evaluate Resource Requirements
      11. Starting and Managing the Resulting Enterprise
      12. The Entrepreneurial Process for Each Context
      13. A Framework for Corporate Entrepreneurship
      14. Summary
   2. 2 Behavioral Aspects of Corporate Entrepreneurship
      1. Introduction
      2. Innovation and Creativity
      3. The Creative process
      4. Personality Attributes of a Creative Individual
      5. Creativity Techniques
      6. The Innovative Process
      7. Corporate Innovation and Creativity
      8. Barriers to Innovation and Creativity
      9. Overcoming Barriers to Innovation and Creativity
      10. Corporate Entrepreneurial Behavior
      11. Elements of Entrepreneurial Behavior within Organizations
      12. An Entrepreneurial Culture
      13. Developing Entrepreneurial organizational Behavior
      14. Summary
   3. 3 Understanding and Managing the Entrepreneurial Process
      1. The Entrepreneurial Process
      2. Managerial versus Corporate Entrepreneurship Decision Making
      3. Causes for Interest in Corporate Entrepreneurship
      4. Managerial versus Corporate Entrepreneurial Culture
      5. Aspects of Corporate Entrepreneurship
      6. Innovation
      7. Ownership
      8. Creativity
      9. Summary
   4. 4 Identifying, Evaluating, and Selecting the Opportunity
      1. Introduction
      2. Sources of New Ideas
      3. Methods for Generating Ideas
      4. Trends
      5. Evaluating the Idea
      6. Product Planning and Development Process
      7. Establishing Evaluation Criteria
      8. Selecting the Foreign Market
      9. Internal Company Indicators
      10. Company Innovative Idea Strategies
      11. Summary
7. Part Two Organizing Corporate Entrepreneurship
   1. 5 Locating the Venture in the Organization
      1. Introduction
      2. Organizational Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship
      3. Various Structures for Corporate Entrepreneurship
      4. Developing a Corporate Entrepreneurial Program
      5. Summary
   2. 6 Organizing the Venture
      1. Introduction
      2. Culture
      3. Core Ideology and Envisioned Future
      4. Designing the Corporate Venture
      5. Organizational Structures for Corporate Entrepreneurship
      6. Relatedness and Degree of Corporate Venture Autonomy
      7. Developing the Corporate Entrepreneurship team and a Successful Culture
      8. Effectively Organizing Corporate Entrepreneurial Activities
      9. Summary
   3. 7 Controlling the Venture
      1. Introduction
      2. Nature of Controlling the Venture
      3. Elements of a Management Control System
      4. Forms of Control
      5. Measures and Strategies of Control in Organizations
      6. Characteristics of an Effective Control System
      7. Control Philosophy of Corporate Entrepreneurship
      8. Control Systems for Innovation and Creativity
      9. Organizational Control Focus
      10. Core Management Control System
      11. Methods of Control
      12. Financial Controls
      13. Nonfinancial Controls
      14. Ingredients to Financial and Nonfinancial Controls in Corporate Entrepreneurship
      15. Summary
   4. 8 The Internal Politics of Venturing
      1. Introduction
      2. Internal Politics
      3. Overcoming the Obstacles
      4. Political Strategy
      5. Political Tactics
      6. Politics
      7. Political Tactics for Corporate Entrepreneurs to Exercise Influence
      8. Summary
8. Part Three Operationalizing Corporate Entrepreneurship
   1. 9 Developing the Business Plan
      1. Introduction
      2. Importance of a Business Plan
      3. Scope and Value of the Business Plan
      4. The Corporate Business Plan
      5. Summary
   2. 10 Selecting, Evaluating, and Compensating Corporate Entrepreneurs
      1. Introduction
      2. Selecting a Corporate Entrepreneur and a Team
      3. Corporate Entrepreneurial Team Roles
      4. Key Characteristics of the Corporate Entrepreneurial Leader
      5. Survival Guidelines for Corporate Entrepreneurs
      6. Venture life Cycle and Selection of the Corporate Entrepreneurial Team
      7. Evaluating the Corporate Entrepreneurial Team’s performance
      8. Evaluation Criteria for the Corporate Entrepreneurial Team
      9. Compensating Corporate Entrepreneurs
      10. Components of a Compensation and Incentive System
      11. Compensation and Incentive Components for New Success
      12. Summary
   3. 11 Funding the Venture
      1. Introduction
      2. Need for Financing
      3. Overview of the Venture Capital Industry
      4. Corporate Venture Capital Units
      5. The Evaluation Process
      6. Valuing the Idea
      7. Factors in Valuation
      8. Ratio Analysis
      9. Nonfinancial Factors
      10. Summary
   4. 12 Implementing Corporate Venturing in Your Organization
      1. Introduction
      2. Models of Corporate Entrepreneurship
      3. Specific Examples of Corporate Entrepreneurship
      4. Implementing and Evaluating a Corporate Entrepreneurship Program
      5. Benefits of a Corporate Entrepreneurship Program
      6. Benefits to Employees
      7. Evaluating the Results
      8. Summary
9. Notes
10. Suggested Readings
11. Index
12. About the Authors