An Entrepreneurial Mindset in an Organizational Context: A General Model of Entrepreneurial Spikes

The purpose of this paper is to integrate the seemingly disparate entrepreneurship and mindset literatures and extant work to conceptualize the entrepreneurial mindset and its embeddedness in an organizational context. Furthermore, we theorize about the entrepreneurial mindset as expressed through entrepreneurial spikes. We develop the entrepreneurial mindset concept as an ability and willingness combined phenomenon driving individuals, specifically in a corporate environment, in their entrepreneurial behavior, moving research forward from ‘what it is’ into understanding ‘how and when it works’. We detail the implications and insights and propose a future research agenda, focusing on the context beyond the content of the entrepreneurial mindset.