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Artificiality and Sustainability in Entrepreneurship : Exploring the Unforeseen, and Paving the Way to a Sustainable Future.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adams, Richard.
Other Authors: Grichnik, Dietmar., Pundziene, Asta., Volkmann, Christine.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2022.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:FGF Studies in Small Business and Entrepreneurship Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Part I: Introduction
  • Artificiality and Sustainability in Entrepreneurship. Exploring the Unforeseen and Paving the Way to a Sustainable Future
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Defining the Concept of Artificiality
  • 3 Artificiality in Entrepreneurship
  • 4 Sustainability in Entrepreneurship
  • 5 Unforeseen Consequences of Artificiality in Sustainable Entrepreneurship
  • 5.1 Embracing Digital Transformation and Opening Up New Business Opportunities
  • 5.2 Building New Capabilities and Learning Mechanisms to Enhance Competitiveness in the Market Predominated by the Artificial ...
  • 5.3 Setting New Imperatives to Relate with the Customers and Stakeholders in the Ecosystems
  • 6 Paving the Way for the Sustainable Future of Entrepreneurship in Artificial Environments
  • References
  • Part II: Embracing Digital Transformation and Opening Up New Business Opportunities
  • Digitalization and Its Impact on the Internationalization Models of SMEs
  • 1 Selected Internationalization Models of SMEs
  • 2 Digitalisation Impact on Business
  • 3 Digitalization Impact on the Internationalization Process of Companies: Evidence from the Past
  • 4 Methods and Research Assumption
  • 4.1 Method and Data Collection
  • 4.2 Issues in Focus Group
  • 4.3 Data Analysis
  • 5 Digitalization in Shaping the Process of Internationalization: Research Results
  • 5.1 Internationalization Process in Opinions of Participants
  • 5.2 Implementing Digitalization into the Process of Internationalization: Participants ́Opinions
  • 5.3 Changes in Internationalization Models Because of Digitalization
  • 6 Conclusions
  • References
  • Born Digitals: Understanding the Sustainable Competitive Advantage Across Different Markets
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Methods
  • 3 Global Changes that Affect the Firms Nowadays: The Role of Digitalization.
  • 4 Born Digitals and Their Internationalization
  • 5 Competitiveness of Born Digital Firms
  • 6 Future Research Conceptual Model
  • 7 Discussion, Conclusion, and Future Research Directions
  • References
  • The Value Chain Configuration in the Digital Entrepreneurship Age: The Paradoxical Role of Digital Technologies
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Digital Entrepreneurship and the Value Chain Configuration
  • 2.1 Digital Entrepreneurship and Global Value Chains
  • 2.2 Characteristics of Digital Technologies and Their Implications for the Configuration of Global Value Chains
  • 2.3 An Overview of the Value Chain Configuration in Digital Entrepreneurship: The Paradoxical Role of Digital Technologies
  • 2.3.1 DTs and Value Chain Activities: The Slicing of Activities
  • 2.3.2 DTs and Control of Value Chain Activities: Make, Buy or Ally?
  • 2.3.3 DTs and Location of Value Chain Activities: Offshoring and Reshoring Dynamics
  • 3 The Current Context: An Overview of Research on the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • 3.1 Covid-19 and the Design of GVC Activities. Has Anything Changed in Todayś `New Normal?́
  • 4 Avenues for Future Research: Insights for GVC `Location Decisions ́in the Digital Entrepreneurship Age
  • 4.1 The Specificities of Different DTs and Locations: Clarifying the Paradoxical Role of DTs?
  • 4.2 New Digital Business Models: Value Chain Upgrading and Entrepreneurial Opportunities
  • 4.3 Digital Sustainability and Location in Digital Entrepreneurship
  • 5 Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • Entrepreneurial Thinking and Acting in the Context of Great Transformations in Germany: How to Approach Entrepreneurial Person...
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Great Transformations-Challenges and Features
  • 3 Erschließung as a New Concept to Approach Entrepreneurial Personalities and Organizations.
  • 4 Shaping the Digital and Sustainability Transformation-Opportunities and Limitations of the Erschließungs-Approach
  • 5 Conclusions and Future Research
  • References
  • Part III: Building New Capabilities and Learning Mechanisms to Enhance Competitiveness in the Market Predominated by Artificia...
  • The Evolution of the Dynamic Capabilities Framework
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Origins of the Dynamic Capabilities Framework
  • 3 The Deep Roots of the Dynamic Capabilities Framework
  • 4 The Dynamic Capabilities Framework
  • 5 Dynamic Capabilities Applied: Digital Transformation
  • 6 The Divisions Within the Dynamic Capabilities Literature
  • 7 The Future of the Dynamic Capabilities Framework
  • References
  • Transforming a Highly Tactile Entrepreneurship Course ``Ideas to Innovation ́́to an Entirely Online Delivery Model: Lessons fo...
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Literature Review
  • 2.1 The Origins of Ideas to Innovation
  • 2.2 Online Version
  • 2.3 The Impact of Entrepreneurial Education Programs
  • 2.4 Measuring the Impact of Entrepreneurial Education Programs
  • 2.5 Conceptual Framework Development
  • 3 Methods
  • 3.1 Research Approach
  • 3.2 Data Collection
  • 3.3 Data Analysis
  • 4 Results
  • 4.1 Main Results of Facilitator Interviews
  • 4.1.1 i2i Online Program Content and Delivery
  • 4.2 Main Results of i2i Participant Interviews
  • 4.2.1 Demographic Profile Characteristics
  • 4.2.2 Confidence in Own Abilities to Solve Problems Related to a Business Idea
  • 4.3 Effect of Online i2i Program on Entrepreneurial Outcomes: Self-Efficacy and Intention
  • 4.3.1 Intention to Start a New Venture
  • 5 Conclusions
  • 6 Theoretical Implications
  • 7 Limitations
  • Appendix 1
  • Introduction
  • Demographic Profile Characteristic
  • The Main Questions
  • Entrepreneurial Intentions (Outcome)
  • Additional Questions
  • Appendix 2
  • Appendix 3
  • Appendix 4.
  • Appendix 5
  • Appendix 6
  • Appendix 8
  • Appendix 9
  • References
  • Applying Eye-Tracking Technology in the Field of Entrepreneurship Education
  • 1 Methodology
  • 2 Entrepreneurship Education
  • 3 Eye-Tracking Technology
  • 4 Theories Applied in Eye-Tracking Research
  • 5 Eye-Tracking Data and Analysis
  • 6 Opportunities of Eye-Tracking Research in Entrepreneurship Education
  • 6.1 Research on Learning: Enhancing the Current Research Instruments
  • 6.1.1 Components of Entrepreneurial Competence
  • 6.1.2 Emotional Component
  • 6.1.3 Social/Collaborative Component
  • 6.1.4 Cognitive Component
  • 6.1.5 Multimodal Data Collection
  • 6.2 Research on Teaching: Contributing to Development of Teacher Expertise
  • 6.2.1 Teachers ́Professional Vision
  • 7 Challenges in Eye-Tracking-Based Research
  • 7.1 Hardware and Data Collection
  • 7.2 Data Analysis
  • 7.3 Chosen Measures of Analysis and Research Conditions Influence the Outcome
  • 7.4 Interpreting Cognitive Processes
  • 7.5 Limitations of Additional Methods
  • 7.6 Newness of the Method and Ethical Issues
  • 8 Implications of Eye-Tracking Application on Entrepreneurship Education
  • 9 Conclusions
  • References
  • Part IV: Setting New Imperatives to Related with the Customers and Stakeholders in the Ecosystems
  • Solutions of Brand Posts on Facebook to Increase Customer Engagement Using the Random Forest Prediction Model
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Theoretical Background
  • 2.1 Features of Brand Posts: Content Types, Media Types, and Time Frame
  • 2.1.1 Time Frame of Brand Posts
  • 2.1.2 Content Types of Brand Posts
  • 2.1.3 Emotional Cues of Brand Posts
  • 2.1.4 Media Types of Brand Posts
  • 2.2 Customer Engagement Behaviour on Facebook: Definition and Conceptualisation
  • 3 Conceptual Framework Development
  • 4 Methodology
  • 4.1 Coding Variables
  • 4.1.1 Independent Variables.
  • 4.1.2 Dependent Variable: Customer Engagement Behaviour
  • 4.2 Prediction Method and Model
  • 5 Results
  • 5.1 Descriptive Results
  • 5.1.1 Time Frame
  • 5.1.2 Content Types
  • 5.1.3 Media Types
  • 5.2 Random Forest and Accuracy of Trained CEB Prediction Models
  • 6 Conclusions and Discussion
  • 7 Limitations
  • References
  • Entrepreneurial University and Social Innovation Ecosystems: Do They Support HEIs ́Knowledge-Based Economic Development?
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Theoretical Background of the Entrepreneurial University and Social Innovation Ecosystem
  • 2.1 Entrepreneurial Universities ́Key Enabling Perspectives in the Framework of the HEIs ́Knowledge-Based Economy
  • 2.2 Entrepreneurial Universities in the Framework of HEIs ́Regional Knowledge Spillover and Social Innovation
  • 2.3 Entrepreneurial Universities in the Framework of Social Innovation Ecosystems and Knowledge-Based Economic Development
  • 3 Research Method
  • 4 Entrepreneurial Universities in the Context of Triple Helix, Quadruple Helix, and Inclusive Knowledge-Based Economic Growth
  • 4.1 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Social Innovation Ecosystems Influence Knowledge-Based Economic Development
  • 5 Recommendations and Conclusion
  • References
  • Cultivating the Impact of Sustainable Entrepreneurship: A Discussion of Upscaling Approaches in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
  • 1 The Need for Growing Sustainable Entrepreneurship Beyond the Local Niche
  • 2 Upscaling Within the Sustainable Entrepreneurial Process
  • 3 The Upscaling Challenge: Characteristics and Barriers of Upscaling Sustainable Enterprises
  • 3.1 Upscaling of Sustainable Entrepreneurship from a Transition Perspective
  • 3.2 Upscaling Dilemmas
  • 4 The Potential Role of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
  • 4.1 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in the Context of Sustainable Entrepreneurship
  • 4.2 Challenges of Sustainable Entrepreneurship.
  • 4.3 Conditional Aspects of (Sustainable) Entrepreneurial Ecosystems.

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