Through empirical investigations into university spin-ofs (USOs), we discovered innovativeness benefts derived from maintaining both academia and business partners at a distance. Distance should not be misconstrued as isolation; rather, it emphasises specifc attributes where partners are...

This paper describes and discusses social media infuencers' health-related costs of keeping traction as infuencers. The paper is based on interviews and social media posts. Four paradoxes highlight the social media infuencers' contradictory circumstances: (1) the social media infuencer's...

Trust is intimately connected with relational interactions, but does it also have a role to play in transactional exchanges? How would it differ? While trust has been discussed extensively in sharing economy research, the focus has been on trust cues created in exchanges between strangers,...

Purpose Corporate changes not only impact the firms involved but also have consequences for their ecosystems. However, the existing literature on ecosystem change is limited. This paper describes and discusses the interconnected patterns between corporate and ecosystem change, shedding light on...

Purpose While existing literature extensively explores manufacturing firms expanding into services, little is known about the modes of servitisation, the means by which they carry it out. This paper concentrates on acquisitions as a mode of servitisation. Post-acquisition integration is when the...