Corporate Entrepreneurship and Corporate Performance

Abstract

Corporate entrepreneurship is a process that can facilitate company’s efforts to innovate constantly and cope effectively with the competitive realities that companies encounter when competing in international markets. It can be measured using variables like innovativeness, corporate venturing, technology partnerships, expansion etc. there is a relation between corporate entrepreneurship and corporate performance. The present study has been undertaken to examine whether the performance of entrepreneurial companies are more than non-entrepreneurial companies. The study is mainly based on secondary data. For the purpose of the study, Corporate entrepreneurship of the selected ten companies is measured using the entrepreneurial variables. Entrepreneurial activities of last five years are counted and average is found out. The companies whose number of activities above the average are treated as predominantly entrepreneurial companies and the companies whose variables below the average are treated as predominantly non-entrepreneurial companies. The study revealed that the entrepreneurial characteristic of the companies does not affect the corporate performance.

Keywords

Corporate entrepreneurship, Corporate Performance.

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