Corporate entrepreneurship in entrepreneurial city: A new solution for urban sustainability

Today, population growth in metropolitan areas along with numerous economic and social problems that stem from it, have greatly challenged the urban management system. Hence, new policies have emerged in the urban sustainability literature; one of which is the development of the entrepreneurial city using a variety of tools such as developing corporate entrepreneurship. The purpose of this research is to explain the role of corporate entrepreneurship in the process of the formation of the entrepreneurial city as a solution for urban sustainability. The research method is a correlational descriptive research and in which through a systemic review of the literature and content codification, the initial conceptual model is presented and then, for analyzing the data and confirming the model, confirmatory factor analysis and LISREL software were used. The statistical population of the research is people active in the entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystems in Iran and the cluster sampling method has been used. Data was gathered using questionnaires while its validity was investigated with the help of experts and the reliability was calculated with SPSS, being accepted with a 0.906 Cronbach's alpha. Research findings demonstrated that among the 17 variables for corporate entrepreneurship (derived from a systematic review of the research literature), 16 of them played a role in the development of entrepreneurial city and lead to sustainable development in metropolitan areas (In the results, it was found that only one variables, Risk-taking, is not effective in the development of the entrepreneurial city); in a way that corporate entrepreneurship and urban sustainability (as one of the most important outcomes of the development of the entrepreneurial city) had a positive and meaningful relationship.