This paper analyzes the strategic opportunities enabled by one of Booking.com's managerial innovations introduced in 2015-16: a new online discount feature. Focusing on the hospitality and online booking platforms, we explore the role of the heterogeneity in characteristics that make...

German Abstract: Fehlendes Kapital für Hightech-Wachstumsunternehmen ist eine der zentralen Schwächen des deutschen Innovationssystems. Gerade im Zuge der digitalen Transformation, in der radikale technologische Innovationen und neue Geschäftsmodelle sowie schnelles Wachstum gefragt sind,...

Insufficient access to capital for high-tech growth companies is one of the key weaknesses of Germany's innovation system. This weakness is becoming a serious competitive disadvantage, especially in the context of the radical technological innovation, new business models and rapid growth...

Information technologies penetrate virtually every division in contemporary organizations. Organizations deploy a spectrum of information technologies with aim of alleviating operating efficiency. Knowledge workers increasingly depend on deployed information systems to accomplish their tasks....

Now-a-days banking is known as innovative banking. Developments in Information technology have given a rise to innovations in the product & service designing and their supply in the banking sector and finance industries. With the advent of Mobile banking, Electronic funds transfer and other...

This paper reviews the main contributions of organisational innovation in the literature towards bringing a sustainable organisation and development. The review basically illustrates four main interrelated concepts: organisational innovation, organisational performance, sustainable organisation...

In business practice, sustainable marketing seeks to meet environmental and social sustainability needs. Sustainable marketing budgets should create a balance between market needs and the need to use existing resources as rationally as possible. By recognizing that certain internal and external...

Rapid technological change is ever more characterizing today's markets and business decisions. Such a situation is to afford with complex tools not always available to all firms. This holds true, especially as far as Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are concerned. Traditional and consolidated...

I examine the possible impact of venture capital (VC) backing on the commercialization direction of technology-based start-ups by asking: to what extent (if at all) do VC-funded start-ups engage in cooperative commercialization strategies (strategic alliances and/or technology licensing)...

This paper examines how a radical technological innovation affects alliance formation of firms and subsequent network structures. We use longitudinal data of interfirm Ramp;D collaborations in the biopharmaceutical industry in which a new technological regime is established. Our findings suggest...