Exploring the Practice of Corporate Venturing: Some Common Forms and Their Organizational Implications
基于理论分类法，通过英美公司实地研究，将公司创业分为四种形式，并提供一个管理决策框架，帮助高管根据目标和情境选择合适形式。
This study explores the domain of corporate venturing using a theoretically grounded classification typology as an organizing scheme. The typology is applied in a field study of corporations that are active In venturing and based in the United Kingdom or the United States. Corporate venturing is classified into four generic forms by the focus of entrepreneurship and the presence of investment intermediation: (1) direct-internal venturing; (2) direct-external venturing; (3) indirect-internal venturing; and (4) indirect-external venturing. A managerial decision framework is offered to assist corporate executives in selecting potentially appropriate forms of corporate venturing, given specific venturing objectives and corporate circumstances.