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A Paradigm of Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Management*

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Entrepreneurship

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Corporate entrepreneurship seems to many entrepreneurship scholars a contradiction in terms. This paper represents an attempt to bridge that gap. This is done by, first, reviewing the literature on entrepreneurship, trying to summarize it in a few major themes. Second, a view of entrepreneurship is proposed that facilitates the application of the previous findings to the field of corporate entrepreneurship. Finally, a series of propositions are developed, as instances of the kind of research that can be pursued by following the proposed approach.

*Originally published in Strategic Management Journal, 1990, 11(5): 17–27. Reprinted by permission of John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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    Howard H. Stevenson

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Stevenson, H.H., Jarillo, J.C. (2007). A Paradigm of Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Management* . In: Cuervo, Á., Ribeiro, D., Roig, S. (eds) Entrepreneurship. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48543-8_7

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