1st Edition
Corporate Volunteering, Responsibility and Employee Entrepreneurship
Supporting employee entrepreneurship is among major challenges contemporary organizations face. Many facets of corporate entrepreneurship are investigated, and the body of knowledge in the field is growing rapidly; nevertheless, there are still knowledge and research gaps to be filled. Notably, while there are studies linking HRM with corporate entrepreneurship, studies on connections between CSR-oriented practices and corporate/employee entrepreneurship are to be developed.
The main goal of this book is to explain relationships between corporate volunteering and employee entrepreneurship in organisations. The book combines two extremely vivid fields of research: entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility. Based on their own research, the authors present how participation in corporate volunteering, as one of the CSR practices in organisations, leads to strengthening employee entrepreneurial behaviour. The book offers a framework showing the role of CSR practices in shaping entrepreneurial and innovative employees’ behaviour.
This book is aimed mainly at postgraduates, researchers and academics in the fields of entrepreneurship and corporate volunteering. As it touches vital fields of managerial education and management, it will also be of interest to master level students at universities or business schools as well as business practitioners.
1. Corporate entrepreneurship 2. Who becomes a corporate entrepreneur, and how? 3. Designing the entrepreneurial environment 4. Corporate social responsibility as a booster of employee entrepreneurial activities 5. Nature, types and outcomes of corporate volunteering 6. Corporate volunteering and employee competency development 7. Volunteering and entrepreneurship: Case studies 8. Concluding remarks
Biography
Aldona Glińska-Neweś is Professor and a Head of The Scientific Discipline Council of Management and Quality Studies, as well as Head of the Department of Organizational Behavior and Marketing at the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
Beata Glinka is Professor and a Head of the Chair of Entrepreneurship and Management Systems at the Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw, Poland.
