Corporate entrepreneurship has become a popular topic of research among academicians and practitioners. Research on the factors influencing corporate entrepreneurship and its effect on job satisfaction and performance of organizations is one of the critical issued to be addressed. This goal of this paper is to test a proposed corporate entrepreneurship model involving High Performance Work System, Emotional Intelligence and Entrepreneurial Orientation. Structural equation model has been used to test the hypothesized relationships. Data was collected from 400 executives working in 12 manufacturing companies in Chennai and simple random sampling method was adopted to select the respondents. The results clearly indicate that the model fit the data obtained and revealed that High Performance Work System, Emotional Intelligence and Entrepreneurial Orientation are the dominant influencers of corporate entrepreneurship.
