As a form of crowdsourcing, idea competitions offer a mechanism to engage larger groups in innovation activities. While much of the literature on crowdsourcing focuses on idea competitions that cross a firm's boundaries to engage external partners, relatively little is known about how this...

The creation of new products or innovations is often based on enabling technologies such as standardized development tools. Firms often have a choice whether to use these tools, or to create the functionality themselves. In this paper, we study how the use of standardized tools is related to the...

This paper reports on the findings of interviews conducted with Hungarian firms on their overall business and innovation strategies and innovation activities to pursue three interconnected aims: a) better understand firm behaviour by analysing qualitative features of innovation processes...

This article is concerned with the impact of corporate digitalization on the corporate sustainability performance and with barriers and supportive institutional frameworks for corporate digital technology adaptation. Collected from big data sets such as the Digital Economy and Society Index...

This research study investigates the challenges and strategies involved in integrating e-commerce and business model innovation within AI-driven enterprises, with a specific focus on the case of HIMS, a men's health and wellness e-commerce company. The aim of this study is to provide valuable...

We examine whether there is a tradeoff between employing internal (firm) resources and purchased external (local) resources in process innovation. We draw on a rich data set of Internet investments by 86,879 U.S. establishments to examine decisions to invest in advanced Internet technology. We...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the international and cultural aspects that academic entrepreneurs must take into consideration and propose a conceptual framework dedicated to the analysis of higher educational institutions (HEI) regarding their international settings and the support or...

This article points at insights from the subfields of international business and strategic management that are relevant for sustainability transitions research. Specifically, building on the emergent ‘mainstream' literature on ‘generic' digital platforms, we explain how a range of digital...

Development and usage of information and communication technology (ICT) is continuously growing in the last 30 years. The main reason is that ICT has a great potential to improve the efficiency of business processes, to increase the competitiveness, but also to facilitate and drive innovations....

Introduction: Research attempts to develop a model investigating impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) usage on entrepreneurs' innovations and business performance. Small and Medium Size Enterprises are major sources of employment and food production; therefore it plays a key...