Week 14 Reading Reflection

     In chapters 3 and 4 of Entrepreneurship: Theory, Process, and Practice I was interested to learn that because of “the growing number of female entrepreneurs, companies are now examining the ethics of caring” (Kuratko 100). I would have thought that there would have always been a level of caring in entrepreneurship so I was surprised to learn that the ethics were heavily focused on rules and regulations when the field was male dominated. In regards to chapter 3 on the entrepreneurial mindset, I thought it was nice to learn about Kuratko’s views on what the mindset actually encompasses and being able to take that and compare with our own experiences so far.

     I found the section about conceptualizing corporate entrepreneurship strategy to be a little confusing and I didn’t feel like the figure on page 60 cleared things up much which is disappointing because Kuratko’s tables and figures usually clarify his points well.

     I would be interested in knowing have innovation, particularly corporate entrepreneurship, is incentivized. It seems like money is the most common way to incentivize anything these days so I’m just wondering if there is anything else that Kuratko can think of. Something else I would be interested in knowing is when do you start to face the possibility that a venture could be a failure. I feel like there’s a delicate balance between giving up on a failure and trying to fix it so I just wonder when is the right time to make the call to stop.

     I didn’t strongly disagree with anything that Kuratko mentioned in these chapters. However, there were some points that I feel like could be wrong but I don’t have enough evidence to support my own thoughts.