Researchers increasingly recognize that entrepreneurial employees, intrapreneurs, play a critical role in innovation. As with regular entrepreneurship, however, the value of intrapreneurial activity depends on the firm-specific and societal reward structures that intrapreneurs face. Ideally, these rules of the game are such that they reward intrapreneurship that is beneficial for the firm and the economy. When this is not the case, intrapreneurship can be beneficial for the firm but not for society, damaging for the firm yet beneficial for society, or downright non-productive. We offer a taxonomy describing how society’s rules and firm rules interact to produce different intrapreneurial outcomes.
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
Intrapreneurship: Productive and Non-Productive
Journal Article
Reference
Elert, Niklas and Mikael Stenkula (2022). “Intrapreneurship: Productive and Non-Productive”. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 46(5), 1423–1439. doi.org/10.1177/1042258720964181
Elert, Niklas and Mikael Stenkula (2022). “Intrapreneurship: Productive and Non-Productive”. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 46(5), 1423–1439. doi.org/10.1177/1042258720964181
Authors
Niklas Elert, Mikael Stenkula