China is currently the front-runner on the global crowdfunding market, even though this form of financing originated in the USA. Crowdfunding in China, however, differs significantly from its counterpart in the West. This book reveals that Chinese crowdfunding is a product of the country’s...

Subsistence Entrepreneurship: The Role of Collaborative Innovation, Sustainability and Social Goals -- Firm Founder's Passivity as a Source of Serendipitous Opportunity Discovery -- Commonomics: Rhetoric and Reality of the African Growth Tragedy -- Entrepreneurship in the Solidarity Economy: A...

Sustainable Entrepreneurship: The Role of Collaboration in the Global Economy -- Entrepreneurial Activity and its Determinants: Findings from African Developing Countries -- Culture as Opportunity: Skilled Migration and Entrepreneurship in Australia -- Technology Entrepreneurship and Gender in...

Introduction: Demographic Change and Its Implications -- Literature Review on Ageing Research -- Literature Review on Career Concepts and Learning in the Context of an Ageing Society -- Methodology and Research Design: A Qualitative Case Study of Middle-Aged Non-managerial Employees and Managers...

Towards New Perspectives of Capacity Building in Developing and Emerging Countries: An Overview -- Capacity Building for Economic Transformation: Closing the Gap -- Capacity Building in Africa: Towards an Imperative Mindset Transformation -- Under What Circumstances Does Capacity Building Work?...

This book analyzes how companies and employees can endogenously, i.e., without hiring external experts or consultants, achieve competitive advantages by deviating from behavioral standards in a productive way. The study explores eight transformative behavioral innovations that shaped the...

The resource transfer problem (RTP) is a modeling and solution framework for integrated complex scheduling and rich vehicle routing problems. It allows the modeling of a wide variety of scheduling problems, vehicle routing problems, their combination with integrated problems, as well as various...

This monograph provides a new perspective on business modeling in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It builds on the theoretical framework on innovation and revisits the Zahra and George (2002) model on absorptive capacity and other related works, such as the open innovation approach...

This book brings together cutting-edge research on consulting in a single volume, thus helping to make the state-of-the-art in the field of consulting research more accessible, to promote better practices in business, and to spark further research. The respective articles approach consulting...

This open access book brings together works by specialists from different disciplines and continents to reflect on the nexus between leadership, spirituality and discernment, particularly with regard to a world that is increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA). The book...