Examining the performance effects of corporate entrepreneurship

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2024 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,0, University of Paderborn (Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften), language: English, abstract: The purpose of this bachelor thesis was to investigate the relationship between corporate entrepreneurship (CE) (i.e., innovation, strategic renewal, and corporate venturing) and firm performance (i.e., financial, non-financial, subjective, and objective). For this purpose, a meta-analysis is performed, analyzing prior literature findings regarding the CE-performance relationship of 76 independent samples. The results indicate that innovation, strategic renewal, and corporate venturing each have a significant positive impact on firm performance. Results also suggest that the CE-performance relationship is stronger, when performance is assessed subjectively, as opposed to objectively. In addition to this, a moderator analysis is conducted, to evaluate whether the relationships vary between the firms’ country of origin. Results show that innovation, strategic renewal, and corporate venturing have a stronger effect on performance in Asian countries, than in European or American countries. Those findings are discussed and embedded in current literature. Lastly, practical implications and limitations are discussed. Diese Bachelorarbeit untersucht die Beziehung zwischen Corporate Entrepreneurship (Innovation, Strategic Renewal, Corporate Venturing) und Unternehmensleistung (finanziell, nicht-finanziell, subjektiv, objektiv) mittels einer Meta-Analyse von 76 Studien. Zudem wird analysiert, ob diese Beziehungen je nach Herkunftsland des Unternehmens variieren. Die Ergebnisse dieser Untersuchung werden im Kontext der aktuellen Literatur diskutiert und praktische Implikationen sowie Einschränkungen aufgezeigt.