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Today, organisations are facing more dynamic environments than in the past. Change is constant, which results in organisations facing difficult challenges that put pressure on profitability. To survive in the current environment, organisations have to be flexible and respond to changes in the environment by adopting certain business practices that are conducive to achieving and sustaining successful businesses. An entrepreneurial organisation (EO) is an entity that practises corporate entrepreneurship. Corporate entrepreneurship (CE) is an entrepreneurial mindset and behaviour of an organisation. An organisation can be termed entrepreneurial if it consistently practises corporate entrepreneurship.

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Dhliwayo, S. (2010). The entrepreneurial organisation. In: Urban, B. (eds) Frontiers in Entrepreneurship. Perspectives in Entrepreneurship. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04502-8_6

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