Entrepreneurs and Intrapreneurs in Corporations

Corporations are essentially fascist and incompatible to democracy, says Noam Chomsky (1994). While they mimic human concerns — caring and altruism — they are ruthless in getting what they want. This trait in clinical terms as per the WHO guidelines qualifies a person to be called a psychopath. A recent Canadian documentary by Achbar, Abbott and Baken (2005) has called corporations psychopath. The general implication of this characterization of companies or corporations is in terms of their culture that essentially reflects the top-down control. The intrapreneurs who are typically defined as entrepreneurs within established organizations and described as intra-organizational revolutionaries — challenging the status quo and fighting to change the system from within thus being a cause of potential organizational friction — are not a natural fit in such cultures. Nevertheless, they are there driven by their internal locus of control, reinventing companies, transforming them, pushing them up to new highs — sometimes with and most of the times without the top management support.