About the Book
This Encyclopedia is a comprehensive and original resource that offers insight into how entrepreneurial practices are initiated, supported, and sustained within firms. It traces the field’s evolution from foundational theories to current debates on governance, legitimacy, purpose, and performance. Analyzing key concepts, methods, roles, and organizational settings, entries explore both established frameworks and emerging frontiers, to equip readers with the tools to navigate the complexities of corporate entrepreneurship.
Key Features:
Addresses both individual and organizational entrepreneurial strategy, highlighting their crucial interplay
Organized into thematic sections for targeted exploration and cross-sectional inquiry
Includes nearly 100 multidisciplinary entries which feature insights from 68 leading academics, practitioners, and innovation leaders
Engages with emerging themes spanning sustainability, public-sector innovation, and the emotional and political dimensions of intrapreneurship
Bridges theory and practice by combining conceptual frameworks with field-based insights, tools, and case examples from multiple sectors and geographies.
Linking innovation with culture and systems, this Encyclopedia is an essential reference for scholars and students of business and management, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Corporate innovation and transformation professionals will find practical frameworks, cases, and tools to drive intrapreneurship and change. Public sector leaders and policymakers will also benefit from its discussion of applications of corporate entrepreneurship in institutional and societal contexts.
Table of Contents:
Contents
Foreword xii
Introduction to the Encyclopedia of
Corporate Entrepreneurship and
Intrapreneurship 1
Véronique Bouchard
2 Antecedents, enablers, and key
success factors of corporate
entrepreneurship 5
Véronique Bouchard and
Mélanie Roux
3 Benefits of corporate
entrepreneurship 16
Mélanie Roux, Marc
Evangelista, and Peggy Leplat
4 Bootlegging 21
Maxime Massey
5 Corporate entrepreneurship or
intrapreneurship? 27
Véronique Bouchard
6 Corporate innovation
ecosystems and
intrapreneurship 34
Anissa Abassary and Sylvie Gomes
7 Corporate innovation strategies
and corporate entrepreneurship 39
Denis Gardin and Sylvie Gomes
8 Corporate venturing modes 46
Pierrick Bouffaron
9 Corporate venturing 56
Abdoulkarim Idi Cheffou and
Monika Hauck
10 Defining corporate
entrepreneurship 62
Valentine Georget, Djamila
Kasmi, and Margaux Grall
11 Economic value generation 78
Christophe Deshayes
12 External corporate venturing
with startups 81
Rhoda Davidson, Corey
Billington, and Ludovic Lamberti
13 Historical perspective on
corporate entrepreneurship
practices 88
Véronique Bouchard
14 Innovation management
systems, ISO 56001 and
corporate entrepreneurship 97
Séverine Herlin
15 Integrating corporate
entrepreneurship and
intrapreneurship 101
Olivier Lisein and Frédéric Ooms
16 Organizational ambidexterity
and intrapreneurship 106
MaximeMassey
17 Organizational benefits of
corporate entrepreneurship 112
Véronique Bouchard, Olivier
Lisein, and Mélanie Roux
18 Research in corporate
entrepreneurship 131
Valentine Georget and Mélanie Roux
19 Societal benefits of corporate
entrepreneurship 135
Mélanie Roux, Valentine
Georget, and Sylvie Gomes
20 Spontaneous corporate
entrepreneurship 142
Véronique Bouchard
21 Career impact of
intrapreneurship 148
Virginie Coll and Olivier Leclerc
22 Detecting intrapreneurs 154
Romaric Servajean-Hilst
23 Entrepreneurial self-legitimacy
in corporate entrepreneurship 162
Shirah Foy
24 Family business dynamics and
corporate entrepreneurship 169
Hela Chebbi and Olivier de Richoufftz
25 Head of corporate
entrepreneurship 174
Sylvie Gomes
26 High-reliability organizations
and intrapreneurship 181
Yasmine Saleh, Stéphane
Chatty, Pierre Dubié, and
Marjorie Lefort
27 Highly constrained
organizations and
intrapreneurship 185
Valentine Boitelle
28 Individual challenges in the
intrapreneurial process 190
Hela Chebbi and Rahma Chouchane
29 Individual dynamics of
intrapreneurs 196
Olivier Basso and Olivier Leclerc
30 Intrapreneurial competence 201
Valentine Georget
31 Intrapreneurial legitimacy 205
Mélanie Roux
32 Managers, sponsors, and
mentors 209
Hela Chebbi and Eric
Michael Laviolette
33 Motivations of intrapreneurs 214
Sylvie Gomes and Valentine Georget
34 Personality traits and profiles of
intrapreneurs 219
Frédérique Gros, Romaric
Servajean-Hilst, and
Valentine Georget
35 Public sector intrapreneurship
in France 225
Sophie Ravel and William Mialon
36 Skillset of intrapreneurs 231
Irena Yashin-Shaw
37 Status of corporate
entrepreneurs 237
Laurent Julienne
38 Tourism and hospitality 241
Philippe Frouté and Christina Tschech
39 Types of organizations and
corporate entrepreneurship 247
Valentine Georget and
Véronique Bouchard
40 Collaborative innovation spaces
for corporate entrepreneurship 255
Karine Sacépé
41 Communities of corporate
entrepreneurs 264
Guilain de Pous
42 Corporate hackathons 267
Léa Martel and Fabrice Poussière
43 Corporate incubators and
accelerators 273
Marc Evangelista and
Thomas Le Cardinal
44 Corporate startup studios 280
Olfa Chelbi
45 Exiting the intrapreneurial
process 285
Véronique Bouchard and Sylvie Gomes
46 External corporate venturing
with startups 292
Rhoda Davidson, Corey
Billington, and Ludovic Lamberti
47 Formulating a corporate
entrepreneurship strategy 299
Véronique Bouchard and
Olivier Leclerc
48 Global intrapreneurship 308
Amélie Moutiers and Marion Moliner
49 Intrapreneurial devices 313
Véronique Bouchard
50 Intrapreneurial organizations 324
Véronique Bouchard
51 Intrapreneurial task forces 331
Véronique Bouchard
52 Intrapreneurship programs 336
Véronique Bouchard
53 Make or buy 342
Amélie Moutiers
54 Open intrapreneurship
programs 346
Clara Missoffe
55 Overview of the corporate
innovation process 352
Marc Evangelista, Marion
Moliner, and Séréna Lach Lach
56 Stage 1 of the innovation
process 357
Marc Evangelista
57 Stage 2 of the innovation
process 362
Marc Evangelista
58 Stage 3 of the innovation
process 368
Pierrick Bouffaron
59 Stages and dynamics of the
intrapreneurial process 375
Véronique Bouchard
60 Strategic design of
intrapreneurship programs 381
Guilain de Pous and
Véronique Bouchard
61 Agile and Lean Startup
methodologies (intrapreneurial
toolkit) 389
Guilain de Pous and Estelle
Rémondeau
62 Assessing intrapreneurial
capacity 398
Sophie Ravel and Olivier Leclerc
63 Assessing the intrapreneurial
maturity of organizations 402
Véronique Bouchard
64 Balancing Build and Run for
effective project execution
(intrapreneurial toolkit) 406
Anne-Claire Chanut
65 Building a shared vision for
effective project development
(intrapreneurial toolkit) 412
Anne-Claire Chanut
66 Clarifying the goals of
intrapreneurship programs 416
Anne-Claire Chanut and
Amélie Moutiers
67 Coaching intrapreneurs 421
Clara Missoffe and Edouard Siekierski
68 Corporate innovation platforms 428
Céline Degreef
69 Design Thinking
(intrapreneurial toolkit) 434
Guilain de Pous
70 Developing ecosystem
awareness for effective project
development (intrapreneurial
toolkit) 438
Anne-Claire Chanut
71 Effectuation (intrapreneurial
toolkit) 440
Marc Evangelista
72 Engaging stakeholders
(intrapreneurial toolkit) 444
Rhoda Davidson
73 External corporate venturing
with startups 451
Rhoda Davidson, Corey
Billington, and Ludovic Lamberti
74 Governing intrapreneurship
programs 457
Marc Evangelista
75 Incentivizing intrapreneurs 461
Abdoulkarim Idi Cheffou
76 Involving stakeholders in
intrapreneurship program
design 489
Guilain de Pous
77 Leading change to support
corporate entrepreneurship
initiatives 476
Rhoda Davidson and Olivier Leclerc
78 Managing an international
intrapreneurship program 484
Alexis Blanc
79 Managing intrapreneurs 488
Marc Evangelista
80 Measuring intrapreneurship
program performance 493
Justine Massu, Olivier
Leclerc, and Sylvie Gomes
81 Organizational and
managerial levers for enduring
intrapreneurship 500
Rahma Chouchane and Olivier Leclerc
82 Pitching (intrapreneurial
toolkit) 505
Guilain de Pous
83 Structuring intrapreneurship
through a charter 510
Sylvie Gomes and Marie Piferrer
84 Top management support for
intrapreneurship 515
Mélanie Roux
85 Certifying intrapreneurs 521
Sylvie Gomes and Véronique Bouchard
86 Emotions and intrapreneurship 528
Rahma Chouchane and
Valentine Georget
87 Failures, risks, and the
dark side of corporate
entrepreneurship 534
Maxime Massey and ,
Margaux Grall
88 Human resource management
in the age of intrapreneurship 541
Valentine Georget and Sophie Ravel
89 Human resources’ evolving role
in intrapreneurship 550
Frédéric Hanin and Sylvie Gomes
90 Impact intrapreneurship 553
Louna Thomas, Charlotte
Patinier de Ruyver, Lola
Virolle and Héloïse Estève
91 Inter-organizational ecosystems 558
Sylvie Gomes and Marjorie
Pouzadoux Bokobza
92 Linking intrapreneurship and
corporate venture capital 564
Christophe Deshayes
93 Occupational well-being of
intrapreneurs 567
Valentine Georget
94 Public policy and
intrapreneurship 572
Jean-Philippe Lécuyer
95 Social intrapreneurship 575
Valérie de La Rochefoucauld
Drouâs and Emmanuel de Lutzel
96 Sustainable corporate
entrepreneurship 580
Valentine Georget and
Thomas Le Cardinal
97 Teaching corporate
entrepreneurship 587
Véronique Bouchard and
Rhoda Davidson
98 Technology as an enabler of
corporate entrepreneurship 592
Mélanie Roux
99 The future of corporate
entrepreneurship 596
Valentine Georget, Sylvie
Gomes, Olivier Leclerc, and
Mélanie Roux
100 Conclusion to the Encyclopedia
of Corporate Entrepreneurship
and Intrapreneurship 603
Véronique Bouchard
About the Author :
Edited by Véronique Bouchard, Professor, emlyon Business School and Founder, L’Institut de l’Intrapreneuriat, France, a leading expert in corporate entrepreneurship who helps major firms build structured innovation and inspire intrapreneurs