This book provides a thorough and novel examination of the gendered nature of innovations in the new economy. It tracks the contemporary shift from heavy industry to game industry and how this has altered relationships between gender, identity, corporate culture, creative work, and the future of...

This volume addresses the current challenges for and future prospects of women’s entrepreneurship research, bringing together a wealth of diverse insights with implications for research, education and practice alike. Presenting theoretical and empirical research papers and case studies, the...

This book discusses the ways in which characteristics of innovative firms and innovative talents with core competence in Japanese, Korean, German, and American contexts are developed and nurtured, and compares innovative firms with a long history of business operations from these four countries....

This book examines the adverse effects of complexity, information asymmetries, transaction costs, and uncertainty on investors’ decision making. It suggests mitigating those effects using appropriate and matching signals, and analyzes a sample of 903 German startups to quantitatively highlight...

This volume presents the revised and peer reviewed contributions of the ‘ERP Future 2015’ conference held in Munich, Germany on November 16-17, 2015. The ERP Future 2015 Research conference is a scientific platform for research on enterprise information systems in general and specifically on...

The book examines innovation in environment-friendly technologies in the automobile industry. The focus of the book are Germany (a technology leader in the global automobile industry), on the one hand, and India, China and Brazil (technologically proficient emerging technology leaders) on the...

Gründer von Start-up-Unternehmen verfügen nicht selten über herausragende Ideen, können jedoch häufig nicht auf Eigenkapital bzw. Sicherheiten für Fremdkapital zurückgreifen. Die Finanzierung des Start-ups, als Teil der Umsetzung der Unternehmensidee hin zu einem nachhaltigen...

Offene Geschäftsmodelle zeichnen sich unter anderem dadurch aus, dass Kooperationen mit externen Akteuren in der Wertschöpfung und Ertragsgenerierung eines Unternehmens eine zentrale Rolle spielen. Anne-Kathrin Müller stellt den Zusammenhang zwischen offenen Geschäftsmodellen sowie...