What are the four models of corporate entrepreneurship?

By Ananth Seshadri2 min read · Posted Jul 12, 2023

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Corporate entrepreneurship is the process that determines the entrepreneurial behavior established by medium and large-scale organizations. These behaviors often allow businesses to gain new ideas when implementing new entrepreneurial policies or strategies, hence enhancing an overall workspace. From an employee perspective, corporate entrepreneurship allows competent businessmen to exhibit their entrepreneurial prowess. Through its four different models, corporate entrepreneurship is essential for any business or start-up to maintain short and long-term success while maximizing efficiency.

Opportunist

The opportunist model signifies the starting point of an entrepreneurial company, as they typically focus on resource production and ownership authority across the organization. An opportunist model thrives massively in an engaging and collaborative workspace environment. The presence of numerous business executives and entrepreneurs will allow for the constant flow of new concepts, facilitating organizational success and longevity. Additionally, the creation of new ideas through varied business opinions will allow businesses to become more cohesive, as they will understand the positive impacts gained through the implementation of new strategies.

Enabler

The enabler model is sharply contrasting with the opportunist model, as it often utilizes dedicated resources, and an outsourced entrepreneurial team that works on a business project full time, unlike the diffused ownership and more improvised resource production of the opportunist model. The model is facilitated through developing new business concepts, which eventually leading to improvements within a company or team’s personal development and overall engagement executively.

Advocate

The advocate model focuses on the creation of organizational ownership to develop new businesses into becoming more large-scale corporations. However, the advocate models intentionally have low budgets, but still are known for their innovation and success, as the advocate model connects business systems and corporate entrepreneurship together, which in turn highlights their overarching commitment and overall focus on cohesiveness.

Producer

The producer model utilizes focused ownership, where the business and business shares are held by only a few owners and dedicated resources to help facilitate developing projects, encourage collaboration and the development of new business units, and create new pathways for the business and the executive team to enhance the business’ prosperity.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the four models of entrepreneurship provide individuals with a basic understanding of how to develop an entrepreneurial company after it has been created. Despite their differences, the four models can lead to massive entrepreneurial success, as they provide a strong basis to facilitate a short- and long-term business. With the creation of more corporate entrepreneurship and start-ups, many entrepreneurs will utilize these models more as the business for the development of their business. Therefore, along with being able to aid numerous businesses’ journeys after they have established their business, the four models of corporate entrepreneurship make it easier for corporations to become successful in the short and long term.

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