Dieses Buch thematisiert die Ausgestaltung mittelständischer Geschäftsmodelle und zeigt spezifische Ansatzpunkte und Formen von Geschäftsmodellinnovationen auf. Diese theoretisch und empirisch fundierten Erkenntnisse erhalten insbesondere vor dem Hintergrund zunehmender Digitalisierung und...

Dieses Buch umfasst sowohl eine theoretische als auch eine empirische Untersuchung der Digitalen Transformation von Geschäftsmodellen mittelständischer Unternehmen. Tim Botzkowski setzt sich insbesondere mit der originären Digitalisierungsentscheidung auseinander und formuliert spezifische...

The significance of managing end-to-end supply chains from one hand has been the subject of discussion for over ten years. Regina M. Neubauer provides an answer on how such a scenario might work by studying small- and medium-sized enterprises in the European logistics industry based on her...

This book examines the role of agriculture in the economic transformation of developing low- and middle-income countries and explores means for accelerating agricultural growth and poverty reduction. In this volume, Mellor measures by household class the employment impact of alternative...

This book provides an interdisciplinary account of how technological advances - mainly in the domains of energy and transportation - contribute to the transformation towards a more sustainable economic system. Drawing on methods from engineering, the management sciences and economics, which it...

Prologue: What's at Stake -- Part I: Big Business:Climb to Sustainability -- Part II: Upgrade Supply Chains vs. Dress to Kill -- Part III: Fixing Energy, the Mother of All Markets -- Part IV: Capital Markets, Time to Graduate from the Casino -- Epilogue: Leth's Do It!.

Extreme poverty continues to afflict the world, and it requires urgent action. Social innovation can be the driving force to spark change and to find common ground for shared value creation, particularly when it is directed at low-income markets. Leading companies have recently developed...

This monograph provides a new perspective on business modeling in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It builds on the theoretical framework on innovation and revisits the Zahra and George (2002) model on absorptive capacity and other related works, such as the open innovation approach...