Corporate Entrepreneurship: Innovation and Strategy in Large Organizations - Softcover

Burns, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0230304036 ISBN 13: 9780230304031

Publisher: Red Globe Press, 2012

Synopsis

This leading core textbook, authored by a recognised authority on the subject, covers entrepreneurial transformation in larger organizations and shows how this can be achieved by building an organizational architecture that encourages creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship. Drawing together research from a number of business disciplines and combining this with numerous corporate examples, this innovative text explains how to create an organization that fosters entrepreneurship and how an entrepreneurial organizational structure manifests itself in different industries and companies. Written in a coherent and engaging style, this book offers an accessible combination of theory and practice that encourages students to approach the subject both critically and creatively.
This is an essential textbook for students studying Corporate Entrepreneurship at upper undergraduate and postgraduate level on Entrepreneurship and Business & Management degree programmes. The book also caters for students of Entrepreneurship in Engineering and Technology Management departments, and for all those studying Strategy, Innovation and Leadership.

About this title

About the Author

Paul Burns is Professor of Entrepreneurship and former Dean of the University of Bedfordshire Business School, UK. He has previously held posts as Professor of Small Business Development at Cranfield School of Management, UK, having joined it from Warwick University Business School, UK. He also formerly served as Director of the 3i European Enterprise Research Centre, researching small firms across Europe. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Business School, USA, and a Visiting Professor at the Open University Business School, UK, where he developed the multi-media Small Business Programme which was screened on BBC2. He is Fellow and a former President of the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE). He is a chartered accountant, having worked for Arthur Andersen in London. For four years, he ran his own firm, Design for Learning Ltd.

From the Back Cover

Corporate Entrepreneurship is about entrepreneurial transformation in larger organizations. Paul Burns shows how this can be achieved by building an organizational architecture - leadership, culture, structure and strategies - that encourages creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship. He synthesizes research from a number of business disciplines and draws on numerous corporate examples.

New to this edition:
- Sections on corporate governance, ethics, sustainability and corporate social responsibility
- Greater emphasis on improving shareholder value through risk management and the generation of strategic options, rather than just improving profitability
- Expanded coverage of the management of disruptive innovation and market paradigm change, as well as incremental innovation
- Coverage of the financial crisis and recession, and their implications for entrepreneurship
- Fully updated case studies and new learning resources

Corporate Entrepreneurship is an essential text for all students of Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship, Strategy, Innovation and Leadership.

Visit www.palgrave.com/business/burns for extensive student and lecturer resources including case studies and questions, an individual and a corporate entrepreneurship test, video commentaries and useful web links.

Edition details

• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230304036
• ISBN 13: 9780230304031
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 498