Over the years there has been a phenomenal growth in the number of social enterprises in India. This is partly a consequence of a new policy of the government to gradually withdraw from social development activities. The gap thus created is being filled by social enterprises. A social enterprise...

The research literature is rich on innovations in R&D-specific organizations and provides useful information on support systems and other organizational features associated with such specialized organizations. An implied assumption of many studies is that R&D exists as an independent entity,...

It is often pointed out that like many areas of social science research, entrepreneurship research lacks direction for want of an appropriate paradigm. While it is true that researchers often fail to explicitly state the paradigms under which they conduct their investigations, it cannot be...

Though innovation and intrapreneurship are perhaps the only way for organizations to keep themselves vibrant and growing, large organizations with their bureaucratic systems have their inherent disabilities in promoting intrapreneurial orientation among their employees. Such disabilities are...

Research literature on innovation in established firms has made a useful distinction between radical innovation and incremental innovation and identified the organizational features associated with each. An implied assumption of many such studies is that radical innovations (compared to...

Networks are very much part of entrepreneurs' lives as they have to constantly interact with the environment for accessing vital resources. It is hence redundant to ask whether entrepreneurs network or not. More pertinent questions are: what is the nature of entrepreneurial networks and how...

In an earlier study of the policy orientations of innovative entrepreneurs, it was observed that there were considerable variations within the high-innovation and low-innovation groups identified for the purpose of comparing policy orientations. The possibility of identifying sub-types within...

Entrepreneurial innovation is generally understood as product innovation not only by the layman but by entrepreneurs themselves, even though in practice the latter are innovative in several other areas. Researchers and scholars have attempted to capture the essence of the concept of...

The research reported in this paper was provoked by the author's experience with two entrepreneurs operating in the same industry in the same city in India during the same period. Ironically, the one with better resources and institutional support (call him Entrepreneur-A) could not succeed,...

Over the years there has been a phenomenal growth in the number of social enterprises in India. This is partly a consequence of a new policy of the government to gradually withdraw from social development activities. The gap thus created is being filled by social enterprises. A social enterprise...