Intrapreneurship or Entrepreneurship?

By Simon C. Parker. Social Science Research Network, 2009

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I explore the factors that determine whether new business opportunities are exploited by starting a new venture for an employer ('nascent intrapreneurship') or independently ('nascent entrepreneurship'). Analysis of a nationally representative sample of American adults gathered in 2005-06 uncovers systematic differences between the drivers of nascent entrepreneurship and nascent intrapreneurship. Nascent entrepreneurs tend to leverage their general human capital and social ties to organize ventures which sell directly to customers, whereas intrapreneurs disproportionately commercialize unique new opportunities which sell to other businesses. Implications of the findings are discussed.

Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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The influence of transformational leadership and organizational identification on intrapreneurship (2011, background): “Furthermore, managers with this leadership style can often do best by committing to a policy of passing up innovations discovered by followers to maintain them focused on their key tasks (Parker 2011).”
Perceptions of Adverse Work Conditions and Innovative Behavior: The Buffering Roles of Relational Resources (2016, background): “Regardless of whether these initiatives ultimately lead to the creation of new entities within the organization (e.g., Block & MacMillan, 1993; Parker, 2011; Zajac, Golden, & Shorten, 1991) or to other forms of organizational renewal (Amo & Kolvereid, 2005; Corbett, Covin, O’Connor, & Tucci, 2013; S”
Entrepreneurial activity and regional competitiveness: evidence from European entrepreneurial universities (2016, background): “As a consequence, after graduation, students of those universities represent a talented human capital that possesses the knowledge, abilities, skills, and attitudes gained through education and training to become intrapreneurial employees (jobseekers) or independent entrepreneurs (job creators) (Fay”
Entrepreneurship and well-being: The role of psychological autonomy, competence, and relatedness (2019, background): “Negative emotions such as stress, fear of failure, loneliness, and grief can thus lead to a deficit of belonging (Patzelt and Shepherd, 2011; Shepherd and Haynie, 2009).”
Entrepreneurial universities: emerging models in the new social and economic landscape (2016, background): “On the other hand, the entrepreneurship literature traditionally focused on independent ventures as well as on the organizational mode within which entrepreneurial initiatives took place—intrapreneurship—(Parker 2011).”
Knowledge-Based Regional Economic Development: A Synthetic Review of Knowledge Spillovers, Entrepreneurship, and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (2018, background): “Parker, S. C. (2011). Intrapreneurship or entrepreneurship? Journal”
Entrepreneurship, Self-Organization, and Eudaimonic Well-Being: A Dynamic Approach (2021, background): “…be either a self- selected personal goal, and in that sense self- started or self- chosen (Frese, 2009), or an externally assigned objective (e.g., Parker, 2011; Sharma & Chrisman, 2007).2 In both cases, however, the process of entrepreneurship implies a self- motivated, organizational approach…”
Intrapreneurial intentions versus entrepreneurial intentions: distinct constructs with different antecedents (2013, background): “Prior research generally assumes that entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs are essentially similar in terms of their human capital (Parker, 2011: 27; Menzel, Aaltio, & Ulijn, 2007: 734), and that their risk attitudes and cognitive styles are also rather similar (Hisrich, 1990; Hitt, Ireland & Hoskisson,…”
Measuring employee innovation:a review of existing scales and the development of the innovative behavior and innovation support inventories across cultures (2017, background): “…entrepreneurship within existing organizations or corporate entrepreneurship, is attracting increasing attention in the management and entrepreneurship literatures (e.g., Hornsby et al., 1999; Parker, 2011), especially at the organizational level (de Jong and Wennekers, 2008; Rauch et al., 2009).”
Organizational Social Capital, Formalization, and Internal Knowledge Sharing in Entrepreneurial Orientation Formation (2013, background): “…capital, empirical studies have focused mostly on the role of external social capital in the processes and outcomes of a firm’s entrepreneurial endeavors (e.g., Davidsson & Honig, 2003; De Carolis, Litzky, & Eddleston, 2009; Lechner, Dowling, & Welpe, 2006; Parker, 2011; Wiklund & Shepherd, 2008).”
Institutions, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth: What Do We Know and What Do We Still Need to Know? (2016, positive): “For example, most of the literature in economics and sociology takes entrepreneurship to be exclusively about start-ups and/or self-employment (Foss & Klein, 2012; Foss & Lyngsie, 2012; Parker, 2005, 2011).”
An individual-level perspective on intrapreneurship: a review and ways forward (2019, background): “One main contribution referring to general human capital is the work of Parker (2011), who examined the issue of entrepreneurship or intrapreneurship.”
Knowledge and entrepreneurial employees: a country-level analysis (2013, background): “Also more recent work on intrapreneurship emphasizes the importance of entrepreneurial activity within incumbent organizations (Lumpkin 2007; Parker 2011).”