Abstract
STRATEGIC INTRAPRENEURSHIP
Strategic intrapreneurship stands out as an emerging concept especially in recent years since it plays a crucial role for both large and small and medium-sized enterprises. In this scope, the strategic intrapreneurship concept refers a vision-oriented, organization-wide reliance on intrapreneurial behavior that consciously and continuously revitalizes the corporate and shapes the scope of business activities through the identification and utilization of entrepreneurial opportunity. From this point of view, this study aims to review the recent conceptual framework of strategic intrapreneurship and the intrapreneurs’ characteristics with regard to the significance and the meaning of creating a strategy for businesses’ corporate existence and long-term survival. In this frame, it has been seen that the concepts of strategic intrapreneurship which has been conceptually and terminologically confused with entrepreneurship in several ways, has a positive impact on internal development within an existing organization since it is a process that systematizes set of activities that form strategic vision or include actualizing a corporate strategy.
Keywords
Strategic intrapreneurship, intrapreneur, corporate strategy, business development.
