ABSTRACT

This last chapter wraps up the analyses from the book and offers a short summary of the issues investigated in the previous chapters. It summarises the role that corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices, like corporate volunteering, play in fostering corporate entrepreneurship: shaping a favourable organisational architecture and influencing the entrepreneurial behaviour of individuals. As a result, a framework explaining the process through which employee participation in corporate volunteering contributes to corporate entrepreneurship is presented. Theoretical contributions and practical implications are also discussed, followed by study limitations and avenues for future research in the field.