The intrapreneurial behavior of employees has become of strategic importance for the performance of organizations. However, the literature on intrapreneurship is dispersed and in need of an integrated overview of the characteristics and behaviors of intrapreneurial employees. Based on a systematic literature review, we propose a new definition of intrapreneurship that emphasizes its multilevel nature. Moreover, we propose a comprehensive model of intrapreneurship in which we integrate the new definition, dimensions, and determinants applicable to individual employees. We find that innovativeness, proactiveness, risk-taking, opportunity recognition / exploitation and internal / external networking are important behavioral dimensions of intrapreneurship. A certain skillset, a perception of their own capabilities, personal knowledge, past experience, the relation with the organization, motivation, satisfaction and intention are the determinants of intrapreneurial behavior that we derived from the literature review. Based on our results and an integrated model of intrapreneurship, we suggest a number of future research directions.

This study aims to increase our understanding of how family firms, acting as ecosystem orchestrators, mitigate perceived relational and performance risk in ecosystems via the use of governance mechanisms. We use the ecosystem governance literature to understand whether family firms’ characteristics lead to a unique governance approach in an ecosystem setting. Our findings and theoretical implications are threefold; (1) formal and informal governance mechanisms act as complements to mitigate relational and performance risks; (2) the choice of governance mechanisms differs for relational and performance risk; (3) changes in perceived risk over time result in shifts in the relative dominance of formal/informal governance mechanisms.

The increasing pressure on people to do something for society, in combination with the need for financial turnover in order to survive, is seen as one of the dominant factors for the rise of social enterprises. However, there is still debate on how social enterprises create social value in addition to economic value and how this is reflected in the business model. In this case study research, we investigate how the key components of the business model of social enterprises contribute to the creation of social and economic value. The cases in this research create social and economic value through the mutually interacting operation of key components and their sub-components. This interacting effect focuses on the one hand on the alignment of the internal architecture, market and financial management with the mission. The mission statement serves as a guiding principle. Furthermore, realizing the highest possible profit is not a goal in itself for social entrepreneurs. Generating profit serves the continuity of the company and the realization of social value. We also found that social enterprises can be configured as either market hybrids, blending hybrids, bridging hybrids or coupling hybrids.

Background: Complex skills, like analytical thinking, are essential in preparing students for future professions. Serious games hold potential to stimulate the online acquisition of such professional skills in an active and experiential way.Objective: Rubrics are proven assessment and evaluation instruments, but were never directly integrated into actual gameplay. We present our approach towards the integration of analytical rubrics into gameplay, the implementation into existing (scenario‐based) serious games, and main findings from a study on learning effects and appreciation of the tooling (dashboard with progress information and reflective feedback).Method: Our experimental research setup randomly allocated 84 participating students into either a control group or an experimental group. The intervention for the control group consisted of an existing serious game with natural feedback as part of the scenario, supporting the gameplay itself. The intervention for the experimental group also provided an additional dashboard with reflective feedback, monitoring the acquisition of analytical skills through gameplay. Learning growth through gameplay was measured by pre‐/post‐test scores on a knowledge test, in‐game performance by means of computer logging, and appreciation of the dashboard and feedback by means of a questionnaire.Results and Conclusions: Participants receiving reflective feedback show higher learning increases (on a pre‐/post‐knowledge test), and more efficient gameplay behaviour (on performance scores). Participants receiving reflective feedback feel more confident about competence development. These findings appear promising for this approach on integrating formative assessment in serious gameplay to support the acquisition of complex skills.

The corona crisis caused discontinuity within the financial sector, which has further increased the importance of innovation for sustainability and the capability to manage discontinuity. The aim of this research is to investigate how the corona crisis affected the relationship between sustainability-oriented innovation, sustainable entrepreneurial orientation, and absorptive capacity in the financial sector. Empirical research was carried out in the Dutch financial sector during the corona crisis by means of semi-structured interviews with senior managers, semi-structured group interviews with employees, observations, and documentation. The results of this qualitative exploratory case-study research show that the corona crisis has caused discontinuity for the case organization, which has led to an increase in uncertainty and a decrease in risk appetite. However, the degree of proactivity, innovativeness, knowledge adaptation, knowledge acquisition, knowledge exploitation, and knowledge transformation have also increased as a result of the corona crisis. Therefore, the case organization was able to manage discontinuity and realize more sustainability-oriented innovation. Findings seem to indicate that for the case organization, the corona crisis had a predominantly positive effect on (the relationship between) sustainability-oriented innovation, sustainable entrepreneurial orientation, and absorptive capacity. This research has several theoretical and practical implications and contains recommendations for further research and practice.