Learning the ropes of entrepreneurship: understanding internal corporate venturing for family firms from an entrepreneurial learning perspective

Future firm managers must build up entrepreneurial capabilities to ensure the long-term survivability of their firms. Anecdotal evidence as well as recent scholarly work, especially of family firms, indicate that internal corporate venturing might foster such capabilities; yet they also reveal substantial challenges associated with conducting such activities. Based on entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial learning, and family business research, we...