The Organizational Legitimacies Propensity of Corporate Entrepreneurship

摘要

Based on the literature review,we constructed a preliminary analytical framework.Firms face with a conflict between internal and external legitimacy;The organizational legitimacies propensity is affected by the business unit relatedness between new business and existing business,as well as the industry maturity that the firms venture into.The organizational legitimacies propensity model of corporate entrepreneurship (CE) established here argue that,once a firm that conduct CE establishes new business,the higher the correlation between new and original business is,the more obvious of the propensity to comply the internal legitimacy;once a firm that conduct CE ventures into a new industry,the higher the industry maturity is,the more obvious of the propensity to comply with the external legitimacy.