How would you re create an Entrepreneurship Culture in an Organizations

Topic:

How would you (re)-create an entrepreneurial culture in any large organisation in which you might be employed, either now or in the future?

Instruction:

• Read and discuss the two cases in chapter 12 of Kirby, D.A. (2003), Entrepreneurship. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill

• Sir Ralph Halpern and the Burton Group plc (pp. 305-308).

• Jack Welch: an “activist” CEO (pp. 318-320)

• Select a suitable large organisation (one known not to be entrepreneurial)

• Private sector

• Public sector.

• Find out as much about it as you can.

• Write an action plan to turn it into an entrepreneurial organisation. (Think of yourself as either

• A new CEO brought in to do this or

• A consultant advising the CEO).

• To do this you will need to answer the following questions

• What sort of organisation do we have now?

• What sort of organisation do we want to create?

• What is stopping us?

• What do we have to do to overcome the obstacles/barriers in order to achieve our objectives?

• Who should do what, when?

• Includes

• Executive summary

• Contents list

• Evaluation of what you have learned

• About intrapreneurship

• Entrepreneurial team working

• Change management

• Difference between theory and practice

• Etc.

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Recommend Reading

• Burns, P (2005) Corporate Entrepreneurship: Building an Entrepreneurial Organisation. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.

• Elfring, T (2005) Corporate Entrepreneurship and Venturing. New York: Springer.

• Hamel, G. (2000), Leading the revolution> Boston: Harvard Business School Press.

• Katz, J. A. and Shepherd, D.A.(2004), Corporate Entrepreneurship. Kidlington: Elsevier Ltd.

• Kirby, D.A. (2003), Entrepreneurship. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill (especially chapters 9,11 & 12)

• Wickens, P. (1999) Energise your Enterprise. Basingstoke: MacMillan Press.

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