Creating and Re-Creating Corporate Entrepreneurial Culture

Dr Alzira Salama is a management consultant and a senior lecturer at the London campus of the European School of Economics (ESE), where she was Academic Director for four years. She has a PhD in Organizational Behaviour from Lancaster University. Before embarking on academic life Alzira Salama worked for ten years as Management Development Manager for Verolme do Brazil, a large Dutch shipyard, and as an Executive Education specialist at Xerox Corporation. This experience has been fundamental for her understanding of human behaviour issues at the work place. Alzira Salama lectured at Cranfield School of Management. She was a visiting researcher and lecturer at the European Business School (EBS), London and at the London School of Economics (LSE). She has been involved in action research projects, delivered many conference papers and is widely published, winning awards in the process. Her earlier book is entitled Privatization: Implications for Corporate Culture Change.

Introduction; Part 1 Entrepreneurial Behaviour: An Overview; Chapter 1 Unleashing Entrepreneurial Behaviour; Chapter 2 Culture and Behaviour; Part 2 Biography of Organizations and Culture Transformation; Chapter 3 Biography of Organizations; Chapter 4 Organizational Culture Transformation; From Bureaucracy and Inertia to Entrepreneurship: Preparing Firms for Organic Growth; Chapter 5 Causes of Inertia and an Integrative Model for Culture Evolution and Transformation; Chapter 6 British Airways Story; Chapter 7 British Nuclear Fuels Story; Chapter 8 Jaguar Cars Story; Chapter 9 British Airports Authority Story; Chapter 10 Xerox do Brazil (XBRA) Story; Part 4 Creating Entrepreneurial Synergies Through Cross-Border Acquisitions; Chapter 11 Corporate Entrepreneurship and Acquisitions; Chapter 12 The Role of the Acculturation Process in M&A; Chapter 13 Integration Strategies and Entrepreneurial Synergies; Chapter 101 Conclusions and the Future of Corporate Entrepreneurship;