Structural differentiation, complex organizational boundaries and the survival of internal new ventures
研究了公司创业单元的结构分化如何影响内部新创企业在组织内外的生存，发现这些单元内的新创企业在组织内更难存活，但在外部更容易成功。
We adopt an organizational interpretive perspective suggesting that structural differentiation of corporate venture units (CVUs) gives rise to complex and impactful intra-organizational boundaries but permeable boundaries to the external environment. We draw upon a dataset of 80 internal new ventures to empirically assess the survival of these ventures within and outside of the organization using event history analysis. The results support our hypothesis that internal new ventures housed within CVUs are less likely to survive within the organization than those developed within the mainstream organization, yet that they are more likely to survive outside the organization as independent startups or acquisitions. The findings point to a fundamental paradox in the designing and functioning of structurally differentiated CVUs – the better they are at developing an entrepreneurial community and culture, the more challenging it is for managers in the mainstream organization to comprehend, assess, and integrate the internal new ventures they produce. Our study develops the understanding of CVUs as structurally differentiated units and their role in the routing of corporate ideas and knowledge into new firms in the external entrepreneurial ecosystem.