Over the last decades the number of journal publications in entrepreneurship research has increased dramatically. To analyze the perception of these studies, the present paper suggests a relative measure – the so-called resonance factor (RF) –, which puts a paper’s citations in relation to...

Successful entrepreneurs exploit entrepreneurial opportunities to establish their enterprises. The food industry is a setting in which many such opportunities exist. To shed light on those specific entrepreneurial opportunities, we combine a five-step model of the food value chain ranging from...

Complex systems seem to be all around us and the world, economies and businesses apparently become more complex every day. This is especially true for phenomena in entrepreneurship, innovation and technology research. This introductory chapter elaborates our understanding of complexity and...

German Abstract: Bislang wurde Open Innovation überwiegend als alleinstehender Innovationsansatz behandelt – er ist im Kern jedoch stark mit dem Forschungsfeld Corporate Entrepreneurship verwandt. Wir zeigen mit Hilfe eines strukturierten Literaturüberblicks, auf welche Art sich beide...