| Formal Control and Strategic Growth Initiatives: An Entrepreneurial Perspective (2008) | |||||||||||
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| Growth initiatives have been recognized as important means for corporate entrepreneurship. In this paper, we apply a control perspective on such initiatives and examine the impact of various types of formal controls, their antecedents as well as mediating factors on their performance. In order to examine these complex relationships, we employ structural equation modeling and use a unique data-set comprised of survey data of 201 corporations in six countries. Our findings suggest that the three control mechanisms of input, behavior and output control differ in their impact on growth initiatives. This impact is mediated by factors such as learning and micro-political activities. These results enrich our understanding about the relationships between control and corporate entrepreneurship. | |||||||||||
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