In turbulent business environments, the survival of firms hinges on their ability to speedily sense and react to environmental changes, which in turn leads to superior competitive positioning and improved firm performance. With the rapid development of digital technologies – such as social...

This paper responds to the continual call from both academic scholars and industry professionals to theorize about the influence of “big data” on organization competitiveness and performance. To resolve the ambiguity surrounding “big data” term we propose a new construct called “big...

Background: Local, state, and federal governments have started exploring the potential of crowdfunding in transforming conventional financing methods used previously to fund public projects and services. While crowdfunding has been applied to improve government financing methods in recent years,...

Background: Local, state, and federal governments have started exploring the potential of crowdfunding in transforming conventional financing methods used previously to fund public projects and services. While crowdfunding has been applied to improve government financing methods in recent years,...

Civic crowdfunding is an emerging subgenre of crowdfunding wherein citizens contribute to financing civic projects that bring value to their community. Civic crowdfunding projects are oriented around community development, such as educational initiatives, transportation improvement and...

Crowdfunding is an emerging model of finance whereby backers gather online to fund projects, event, causes or events. Online consumption communities OCC play an important role in removing temporal and spatial boundaries by allowing consumers to convene online over a shared consumption interest....

Purpose: The physical internet (PI) is an emerging logistics and supply chain management (SCM) concept that draws on different technologies and areas of research, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and key performance indicators, with the purpose of revolutionizing existing logistics and SCM...