NDLI: Corporate Entrepreneurs or Rogue Middle Managers? A Framework for Ethical Corporate Entrepreneurship

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Author	Donald, Kuratko F. Goldsby, Michael G.
Copyright Year	2004
Abstract	Corporate entrepreneurs -- described in the academic literature as those managers or employees who do not follow the status quo of their co-workers -- are depicted as visionaries who dream of taking the company in new directions. As a result, though, in overcoming internal obstacles to reaching their professional goals they can often walk a fine line between clever resourcefulness and outright rule breaking. A framework is presented as a guideline for middle managers and organizations seeking to impede unethical behaviors in the pursuit of entrepreneurial activity. This paper examines the barriers middle managers face in trying to be entrepreneurial in less supportive environments, the ethical consequences that can result, and a suggested assessment and training program for averting such dilemmas. We advise companies that embrace corporate entrepreneurship: (1) establish the needed flexibility, innovation, and employee initiative and risk-taking; (2) remove the barriers that the entrepreneurial middle manager may face to more closely align personal and organizational initiatives and reduce the need to behave unethically; and (3) include an ethical component to corporate training which will provide guidelines for instituting compliance and values components into the state-of-the-art corporate entrepreneurship programs.
Starting Page	13
Ending Page	30
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01674544
Journal	Journal of Business Ethics
Volume Number	55
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15730697
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2004-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	ethics and corporate entrepreneurship entrepreneurial ethics managerial ethics Ethics Business Education Economic Growth Management
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Arts and Humanities Business and International Management Law Economics and Econometrics

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