Robert A. Burgelman

ThinkersStrategy scholar

Works

In Organizational Structures

Known for

The new venture division and internal corporate venturing

Ideas

Internal corporate venturing. In a field study of a new venture division, found that autonomous initiatives from the operating level supplied much of a diversified firm's corporate entrepreneurship, and that management found them hard to place. Caveat: One firm, six projects.

Designs for corporate entrepreneurship. Argued that internal entrepreneurs call for new organizational designs for ventures in established firms. Caveat: Read in its abstract only; the set of designs is known only from secondary summaries.

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