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Group 3 Lloyd; Ekachai Nadia; Siripa; Jatin Group 5 Omar; Missa Ankit; Amp Nitesh
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Group Discussion
Consider the following statements. Do you agree or disagree? Please use evidences or examples to support your argument.
Economics
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Politics
Culture
..Past.............. Present Future..... The success of entrepreneurs depends on a nexus of political, economic & cultural contexts, which differ considerably from society to society , from organisation to organisation and from time to time. Putting entrepreneurship into context: space & time
Entrepreneurial idea generation, its materialisation and sustainable development are: Nation-specific e.g. Organisation-specific; industry/market-specific e.g. Time-specific e.g.
Individual-specific e.g.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3h-T3KQNxU
An event from one point-of-view gives one impression. Seen from another point-ofview it gives quite a different impression. But its only when you get the whole picture you fully understand whats going on.
We can easily misinterpret facts, events and people when we examine them out of context (or solely based on our own assumptions when it comes to understanding other peoples worlds). It is their context that provides us with the clues necessary to enable us to understand them. Context locates them in space and time, as well as the present that we see. It gives us the language to understand them, the codes to decode them, the keys to their meaning.
~ Holistic approach & cross-national comparative perspectives ~
Entrepreneurship is the process of creating value by bringing together a unique combination of resources to exploit an opportunity.
Corporate Entrepreneurship
Company assumes the risks, other than career-
related risk
Company owns the concept, and typically the
innovative idea
Entrepreneur owns all or much of the
business
Potential rewards for the entrepreneur
others; may also have to share credit with any number of people
Corporate Entrepreneurship
Rules, procedures and bureaucracy hinder the
quickly
Access to finances, R&D, production facilities for
trial runs, an established sales force, an existing brand, distribution channels that are in place, existing databases and market research resources, and an established customer base
Corporate entrepreneurs remain in the corporate environment rather than starting their own ventures for three main reasons:
The size of the resource base that they can tap into
The potential to operate on a fairly significant scope and scale fairly quickly
The security they enjoy when operating in an existing company
Organizational politics, management styles & cultural barriers are some of the main reasons corporate entrepreneurs leave the company.
Reading the key textbook: Chapter 3 & 4 esp. case study: Keeping Innovating Alive at P&G (pp82-84)