FACULTY AND RESEARCH

The implementation in an organization of a corporate entrepreneurship device can be curbed by a weak diffusion of practices among employees and by cultural resistance. Building a community of practices might overcome these two issues. The creation of social ties between corporate entrepreneurs supports knowledge sharing between employees. This also contributes to the emergence of a specific culture inside the community of corporate entrepreneurs that is sufficiently robust to resist to the homogenisation process exerted by the dominant culture of the organization. The presence of such community is particularly important to coordinate researchers of a R&D Department who are supposed to generate innovations by designing new combinations of knowledge.