The research in entrepreneurship is divided in two research streams, entrepreneurship and corporate entrepreneurship. While entrepreneurship has been the subject of investigation for decades, corporate entrepreneurship however was less focused. This changed due to the rise of new technologies such as the internet and digitalization that changed industries in a fundamental way. For mastering these volatile markets, an ambidextrous behavior is indispensable. Establishing a separated subunit within the firm is a common approach to solve the conflict that arises since exploitation of the existing business and exploration of new businesses require conflicting frameworks ,. Due to the lack of research in this area , this research project follows a qualitative approach to gain a deeper understanding of the corporate entrepreneur and how the organizational design influence leadership and performance. Therefore more than 150 interviews with several German companies that runs corporate entrepreneurship initiatives will take place between June 2015 and December 2016. The database will be analyzed with a multiple-case study approach that is recommended in literature. Therefore the transcribed interviews will be analyzed via open, axial and selective coding according the scheme of Strauss and Corbin. The results are expected to answer the questions (1) if and how the corporate entrepreneur type of person can be distinguished from managers and entrepreneurs and (2) the influence of the organizational design of the corporate entrepreneurship initiative on leadership behavior and performance of the embedded entrepreneurial team.

The present research work set a basic framework from the various suggestions, and focus explicitly on entrepreneurs' reflexive and contextually embedded thoughts and strategies. The aim and objectives is thus not to identify either cognitive mechanisms or relevant discourses in isolation. Instead the ambition is to enhancing the entrepreneurs' life worlds, especially how they make sense of their situation and find meaning and structure in the venture development process. By changing the point of departure from a view of individuals and situations as separate to a focus on lived experience, it has been possible to reach new insights about entrepreneurial process and activities.

Although small business entrepreneurs make enormous economic contributions to local and national economies, extant research on entrepreneurship was focused more on objective and less on subjective factors, even though the latter offer more opportunities for theory development. In exploring the descriptions of lived experiences of entrepreneurs as subjective factors, this study departed from that usual tradition of research in entrepreneurship. Using the constructivistinterpretivist paradigm of the qualitative methodology, the study reconstructed the lived experiences of participants becoming entrepreneurs, and reinterpreted their experiences to bring to the fore the background theories at play while participants transitioned into entrepreneurs. Using the double hermeneutic lens, the study found that entrepreneurial idea and entrepreneurial identity emergence, cognitive capacity of participants, fear of failure, and mentor and family support systems were all at play in the lived expe...

The field of entrepreneurship is still a relative one that is less explored, and many opinions in regard to defining the concepts of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs remain the same. A trial was made by this paper to explore the diversity of concepts identified in specialty literature, and this was approached in their historical evolution. Entrepreneurship entails forming a new organization or restructuring an organization which has already been in existence. It is often a complicated enterprise, so, consequently, numerous enterprises find loads of difficulties in survival. This is an entirely different field involving unique personality traits on the part of the entrepreneur, such as good communication skills, patience, foresightedness, and many more traits, which heads his personality to a brighter side. We believe in opportunities for advancing understanding on the historical role of culture and values on entrepreneurial behavior, using more careful methodologies than in the past, and seeking to specify more exactly how important culture is relative to other variables. There still are major opportunities to complement research on the role of institutions in economic growth by exploring the precise relationship between institutions and entrepreneurs. Finally, conclusions are drawn and some future research directions outlined.