TY - JOUR
T1 - Social entrepreneurial action in established organizations
T2 - Developing the concept of social intrapreneurship
AU - Geradts, Thijs H.J.
AU - Alt, Elisa
N1 - Funding Information:
We are thankful to participants of the 'Entrepreneurship In and Around Organizations' sub-theme at the EGOS Colloquium 2020, who provided valuable feedback that helped improve our manuscript. The initial version of this work is part of T.H.J. Geradts's doctoral dissertation at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Both authors contributed equally to the final manuscript. No funding was received to assist with the preparation of this manuscript.
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PY - 2022/11
Y1 - 2022/11
N2 - Social entrepreneurs are heralded for tackling entrenched social problems by approaching innovation, resource allocation, and the management of uncertainty in ways that escape the ability of established organizations. Although social entrepreneurship is manifested through the founding of new organizations or as entrepreneurial action inside established organizations, the latter has received far less scholarly attention to date. In this paper, we argue that the context of established organizations poses unique opportunities and challenges to individuals engaging in entrepreneurial action to address social problems, which remain hitherto unexplored. To advance our knowledge on social intrapreneurship, we integrate and synthesize the de novo social entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship literatures with a focus on how entrepreneurs in both contexts address the three core elements of entrepreneurial action: innovation, resource allocation, and uncertainty. In doing that, we offer a set of premises that conceptually develop entrepreneurial action by social intrapreneurs, and open avenues for future research.
AB - Social entrepreneurs are heralded for tackling entrenched social problems by approaching innovation, resource allocation, and the management of uncertainty in ways that escape the ability of established organizations. Although social entrepreneurship is manifested through the founding of new organizations or as entrepreneurial action inside established organizations, the latter has received far less scholarly attention to date. In this paper, we argue that the context of established organizations poses unique opportunities and challenges to individuals engaging in entrepreneurial action to address social problems, which remain hitherto unexplored. To advance our knowledge on social intrapreneurship, we integrate and synthesize the de novo social entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship literatures with a focus on how entrepreneurs in both contexts address the three core elements of entrepreneurial action: innovation, resource allocation, and uncertainty. In doing that, we offer a set of premises that conceptually develop entrepreneurial action by social intrapreneurs, and open avenues for future research.
KW - Innovation
KW - Intrapreneurship
KW - Resource allocation
KW - Social entrepreneurship
KW - Social intrapreneurship
KW - Uncertainty
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.06.047
DO - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.06.047
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85133886998
SN - 0148-2963
VL - 151
SP - 197
EP - 206
JO - Journal of Business Research
JF - Journal of Business Research
ER -