Title: 'X'TRAPRENEURSHIP- A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO BRING CLARITY IN ENTREPRENEURIAL RESEARCH
Abstract: Entrepreneurship research has made a highly influential global impact in terms of how we perceive, conduct or study innovation dynamics related to any organization. Over the years there has been a phenomenal growing interest in this research area leading to the development of several subareas such as corporate entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and corporate venturing to address specific issues associated with this research field. Organizational complexities are part of the 21 st century significantly influencing the corporate culture (Baruah and Ward, 2014) and companies which are more adaptable, aggressive, and innovative according to Kuratko, Covin, and Garrett (2009) can immune themselves with a better position to adjust to this dynamic, threatening and complex external environment. Different organizations are adopting certain management strategies to attain competitive advantage to secure this immunity through an enhanced innovation culture within their organizational framework. The conceptual research spectrum of entrepreneurship and its related sub-topics which covers different aspects of organizational innovation has faced certain inconsistencies in terms of their definition or order of hierarchical representation with many researchers using different terms to denote or illustrate similar or the same phenomenon. Some have emphasized the commonalities among these terms thereby defending the use of interchangeable terms whereas others have strongly argued over their distinguishing features. This has led to a plague of confusion on reaching a consensus over their definitions and justified representation of some of these sub-groups of entrepreneurship.In this paper we propose a new approach called the ‘X’trapreneurship approach to identify the distinct domains within entrepreneurship research. Through this approach, we will classify different terminologies used in entrepreneurial research such as independent entrepreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and corporate venturing under these identified domains. The inconsistencies usually faced by researchers in the conceptual frameworks of entrepreneurship will be significantly addressed by our new approach thereby providing some form of simplification and clarity for future works.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-06-01
Language: en
Type: preprint
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