Burger-Helmchen Thierry
in Carayannis, Elias G. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Springer, pp. 619-623.
Année de publication : 2013

Entrepreneurial organizations are structures that promote the emergence and development of ideas from all members of the firm. To be functional, such an organization must have specific features that allow alternative views to emerge. An entrepreneurial organization combines several aspects of entrepreneurship and firm flexibility, namely, specific attention processes to make it possible for junior and senior managers to attract the attention of the decision makers, specific decision mechanisms (with adapted criteria, incentive, and remuneration schemes) that explain the acceptance of ideas, and a flexible, agile structure to allow the implementation. Entrepreneurial organizations differ from managerial organizations by their structures and characteristics; they have a specific innovation model, decision/financial model, selection process, human resource management and resources gathering, and utilization scheme.