Entrepreneurship in the public sector

Entrepreneurship is changing gears. Practice demonstrates and research validates that the concept is moving from the individual to the organization and from the private sector to the social and not-for-profit endeavours (Borins, 2002; Leadbeater, 1997; Morris and Jones, 1999; Thompson, 2002; Zampetakis and Moustakis, 2007). Increasingly there is more focus on examining entrepreneurship from an organizational perspective. The concept mutates to corporate entrepreneurship and companies find themselves investing in the diffusion and entrepreneurial skill development across all managerial echelons (Kuratko, Ireland and Hornsby, 2004; Mair, 2005).