국내 사내기업가정신 연구 현황과 향후 연구 방향

Growing attention is being paid to corporate entrepreneurship, which is taken into account as a strategy for seeking opportunities and boosting performance. It finds that an increasing number of papers are being published in leading international journals and more research is being carried out in a Korean context, albeit at a gradual pace. Despite the increase in numbers, no attempt has been made to do a critical review and seek future research directions in the corporate entrepreneurship research in Korea. This study aims to review a total of 23 papers of the topic which are published in leading Korean journals and discover limitations for suggestions for future studies. Results show that, without a single conceptual definition, the concept of corporate entrepreneurship has been defined in two different dimensions: entrepreneurial orientation and entrepreneurial actions. The majority of literature shows in particular that the boundary between corporate entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial orientation in concept has been blurring. The mediation-focused research is growing in numbers recently, while studies that regard the construct as an antecedent are dominant in the area. Drawing on this critical review, several suggestions for future research are presented including a difference in concept between corporate entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial orientation, a call for research into middle- level managers at individual level, and some methodological issues.