AOM TIM Best Paper Award
Ann-Kathrin Leiting, Bart Clarysse, and Jana Thiel win the Best Paper Award in the AOM TIM Division for their work on Corporate Entrepreneurship.
The conference paper "Successful Corporate Entrepreneurship: A Process of Acculturation Into Corporate Logics" has been awarded the Best Paper Award by AOM's external page TIM Division. The paper is part of Ann-Kathrin Leiting"s PhD research. She has co-authored the paper with Bart Clarysse and Jana Thiel.
Abstract
Incumbent firms increasingly employ practices derived from the global entrepreneurial community to develop new innovative projects geared toward strategic renewal. Typically, the imported practices and logics differ substantially from traditional corporate logics. While prior literature has described how organizations can effectively blend different institutional logics and proactively use them, we know rather little about how a new professional logic with its own processes and practices can be introduced into a dominant organizational logic with its strong corset of how to create new market opportunities. We study this complicated process within the context of a large engineering and electronics company that has invested in endorsing corporate entrepreneurship to deal with the opportunities and threats of technological change in its industry sector. We find that a successful re-integration of corporate ventures into a business unit depends on the capability for organizational acculturation. Our study makes two central contributions: first, we contribute to the literature on institutional logics by identifying detail mechanisms of such organizational acculturation process, and second, we add to the corporate venturing literature by offering theoretical insights into the question why practices and forms adopted from the entrepreneurial community do not easily result in new business.
An abridge version of the paper is published in the AOM Best Paper Proceedings: external page https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2020.113