Fueled by the development of Internet-based platforms that provided its technological foundation, and the need for an agile and uniquely skilled workforce, crowdsourcing has grown from the grassroots, with a burgeoning body of research investigating its many aspects. To gain insight into...

Transforming brick-and-mortar businesses into integrated online–offline models poses significant challenges for firms operationally and strategically. We conduct a comparative case study to investigate strategic renewals that result in the convergence of offline and online operations and...

The digital-based start-up industry in Indonesia has developed, but with a high failure rate. This research aims at elaborating the relationship between business model, entrepreneurial orientation, innovation, and sustainable performance on the digital start-up companies in Indonesia. The data...

We examine the relationship between the board's IT expertise and firm innovation. Using a novel hand–collected dataset from biographies of directors, we find that the board's IT expertise has a positive influence on firm innovation – measured in terms of R&D expenditures and patents...

We construct and validate a text-based metric capturing firms' ex-ante exposure to cybersecurity risk, and we document that the rise of cyber threats is redesigning corporate innovation strategies. As firms' exposure to cybersecurity risk increases, managers' reliance on trade-secrets declines,...

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...

Business model innovation is a key success factor for IT companies competing in technologically uncertain environments. Despite the need of IoT solution developers to renew their business models to effectively create value for customers and capture value for the company, the strategic factors of...

The rapid development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the fast flow of data, allowed tourism enterprises to significantly increase the quality of their services. The intimacy of potential visitors with new technologies makes it convenient for the policy makers to use this...

This study examines preceding factors of user innovation behavior using a case of smartphone applications toexamineindirect and direct effects of consumer attitude on user innovation. Specifically, this study focuses ontwo aspects of the user innovation evaluation:quality and quantity. Quality...

Idea management platforms enable firms to generate pools of ideas and connect employees to large number of colleagues. Although these platforms hold the potential to support employee innovation, managers face considerable difficulties when it comes to deploying them in a way that generates...