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HIDDEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE ORGANIZATION OF JAPANESE FIRMS: THE DYNAMICS OF FOUNDER ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Author(s) -
Hirata Mitsuko
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
pacific economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1468-0106
pISSN - 1361-374X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0106.2009.00482.x
Subject(s) - entrepreneurship , normative , dynamics (music) , resource (disambiguation) , economics , mechanism (biology) , business , economic geography , classical economics , sociology , political science , computer science , finance , law , epistemology , computer network , pedagogy , philosophy
This study looked at how the people in an organization with founder entrepreneurship at its roots exercise the entrepreneurial spirit they have acquired, sought to make a normative clarification on the use of the founder entrepreneurship mechanism, and offered some recommendations. The results were as follows. (i) The presence of a hidden entrepreneurship within organizations, separate from entrepreneurism or intrapreneurism revolving around individual people, was identified. (ii) There was a suggestion that whether or not the organization uses this hidden entrepreneurship as a firm resource can affect its continuous growth. (iii) It was revealed that vertical learning on a temporal axis is vital to turn hidden entrepreneurship into a firm resource. (iv) Indicators for measuring patterns in the use of hidden entrepreneurship were deduced.