Harvesting Success: Exploring Performance Metrics for Corporate Entrepreneurship Units

Christina Lang, Nicolai Heinzelmann, Roland Ortt, Guido H. Baltes

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Abstract

While Corporate Entrepreneurship (CE) units have become essential tools for creating new kinds of innovation within established companies, their performance measurement remains underexplored. With CE units, companies intend to contribute to new business and organizational transformation. Thereby, CE units are used to create outputs that are new for the core organization. Until now, scholars have neglected to investigate assessing CE unit performance, leading to a lack of understanding of appropriate metrics for CE units. Companies often use traditional metrics designed for relatively static contexts, but these metrics do not fit for CE units. This study explores the metrics used in CE units, analyzing 12 interviews with 11 German companies. The analysis reveals a list of different metrics, categories, and underlying dimensions for CE unit performance measurement. Finally, we suggest scientific and managerial implications and topics for future research.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 30th ICE IEEE/ITMC Conference on Engineering, Technology, and Innovation
Subtitle of host publicationDigital Transformation on Engineering, Technology and Innovation, ICE 2024
PublisherIEEE
ISBN (Electronic)9798350362435
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024
Event30th ICE IEEE/ITMC Conference on Engineering, Technology, and Innovation, ICE/ITMC 2024 - Funchal, Portugal
Duration: 24 Jun 202428 Jun 2024

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 30th ICE IEEE/ITMC Conference on Engineering, Technology, and Innovation: Digital Transformation on Engineering, Technology and Innovation, ICE 2024

Conference

Conference30th ICE IEEE/ITMC Conference on Engineering, Technology, and Innovation, ICE/ITMC 2024
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityFunchal
Period24/06/2428/06/24

Bibliographical note

Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

Keywords

  • corporate entrepreneurship units
  • degree ofimplementation
  • Germany
  • interviews
  • performance metrics

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