ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book outlines the reality of Corporate Entrepreneurship: why companies try to encourage it, how they implement it, what benefits can be obtained in practice and so on. It summarises academic production on Corporate Entrepreneurship, with a brief review of the literature and an examination of its definitions and definitional issues. The book looks at team interaction and management in a Corporate Entrepreneurship context. It reviews what companies do in order to foster Corporate Entrepreneurship. The book assesses the managerial and organisational tools most commonly used to foster Corporate Entrepreneurship. It also looks at how companies combine those tools into ad hoc organisational devices to instil entrepreneurial values and behaviours among employees, create environments that are favourable to innovation and risk-taking, and for a few of them, durably combine large size and Entrepreneurial Orientation.
