Internalisation of Markets and Internal Entrepreneurship: Competition or Co-operation?

In: International journal of action research: IJAR, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 196-240

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Abstract

"This text deals with two of the most popular concepts of organizational
marketization: "intrapreneurship" (corporate entrepreneurship) and the
"internalisation of markets". Historical roots and their development
are subject of discussion as well as their internal logics, their mutual
complementarity, and potential contradictions. Normally both concepts
comprise the staging of enlarged rooms for participation while at the same
time couple employees to market risks they can hardly control. Furthermore
the intrapreneur concept is highly contradictory and faces those
affected with problems they can barely solve." (author's abstract)