Academic Seminar : Rasmi Kokash, Durham University Business School

While corporate entrepreneurship (CE) is viewed to influence firm competences, their relationship, along with organizational knowledge creation, remains largely unexplored. Towards that end, this paper examines what and how different CE actions influence various firm second-order competences such as second-order R&D and marketing competences. Informed by literatures of Austrian school of economics, resource based view of the firm, and organization knowledge creation perspective, in our developed model, we propose that firm second-order competences are variously influenced, in part, by different firm-level entrepreneurial activities, and, in part, by different organizational knowledge creation modes. Analysis of data collected from 37 firms, from various knowledge-intensive sectors, using regression modeling, confirms our predicted model.