Antecedents of Corporate Entrepreneurship in SMEs: Evidence from an Emerging Economy
基于制度理论，通过对肯尼亚服务业中小企业的质性研究，发现文化等情境因素削弱了西方文献中五个核心内部前因在新兴经济体中的有效性，内部环境更为复杂互动。
Corporate entrepreneurship (CE) research has reached a certain degree of consensus around five core internal antecedents that enable CE, but consensus remains focused on large-sized firms in Western economies. Using institutional theory, we argue that contextual factors may undermine the viability of internal antecedents in emerging economy contexts. Our qualitative study shows that the organization of the internal environments for CE among service sector Kenyan SMEs is much more interactive and complex than currently presented in the literature. Specifically cultural and contextual factors appear to influence the extent to which the antecedents are able to produce CE activity. Our findings provide a more fine-grained depiction of the internal environment for CE in emerging economy SMEs.