ABSTRACT
Both scientists and practitioners nowadays consider entrepreneurship an effective means of business growth, diversification and innovation. More recently, corporate entrepreneurship serves as a means of organizational survival, mainly for those facing severe problems or those that undergo profound crises. This chapter identifies what kinds of new business ventures emerge in the kibbutz setting. The kibbutz is a voluntary society, based upon democratic regime. It maintains a separation between individual contribution to the wealth of the community and one's quantity and quality receipt of inducements. The kibbutz movement in Israel today consists of 270 kibbutzim, populated by about 130,000 persons. These communities range in size from less than one hundred up to two thousand inhabitants. The total income of all the kibbutzim amounted in 1995 to approximately 5 billion US dollars. The chapter uses the Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) method to analyze the data on the new business enterprises. This method is designed to analyze data according to their dissimilarity or similarity.
