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Abstract
This study deals with business entrepreneurship in the kibbutz. The study
presents an attempt to identify what kinds of new business ventures emerge
in the kibbutz setting. The empirical findings reveal a large number and
variety of new business ventures characterizing the business trend in the kibbutz
nowadays. More specifically, this paper presents a taxonomy of new business
ventures, based upon a sample of 571 enterprises initiated by 150 community
organizations of the kibbutz movement in Israel. By means of 8 parameters and
using the multidimensional scaling analysis method, 7 major types of corporate
entrepreneurship emerge from our data set. These distinctive types are labeled
and described as the Innovator, the Culturalist, the Artisan, the Entertainer, the
Consultant, the Tender, and the Housekeeper types. By and large, the pattern
of entrepreneurship in the kibbutz is rather conservative, reflecting low-risk and
conventional kinds of business.