Alliances, corporate technological entrepreneurship and firm performance: Testing a model on manufacturing firms

Corporate entrepreneurship can be considered important for organisational performance. While being recognised as being important for the development of innovations and technologies of small- and medium-sized firms and for the innovation/technology strategies of large firms, inter-organisational relationships in terms of networks and alliances have received inadequate research attention in the context of corporate entrepreneurship in general and in corporate technological entrepreneurship in particular. This study developed and tested a model of alliance-driven corporate technological entrepreneurship activities that impact on organisational performance. The model was tested on 226 usable responses from mail survey data from a sample of manufacturing firms from Slovenia. The model indicates the value of engagement in strategic alliances for the development of corporate technological entrepreneurship activities and consequential performance improvements.