The hubris tradition of research has been criticized for limiting its scope by associating hubris predominantly with detrimental leadership behaviours. To counteract this bias, we provide a more nuanced exploration of hubris and consider both beneficial and detrimental manifestations of hubris...

Exploiting the potentials and tackling the problems of resource-based and competence-based research, this paper develops a proposal for a competence-based theory of the firm (CbTF). The CbTF is based on the fundamentals of market process theory and is independent from existing approaches to...

To analyze a widely observable phenomenon - Industry Transformation - adequately, the authors suggest an approach by paradigmatically compatible evolutionary theories on two interrelating levels: the market level (to be analyzed from a New Austrian Economics' perspective) and the firm level (to...

Why does a managerial vacuum in case of inter-family business succession occur? Latest insights of entrepreneurship theory and path dependency are used to address this research question. Employing a co-evolutionary view, the managerial vacuum will be conceptualized from both the macro and micro...

Reward-based crowdfunding broadens the scope of e-commerce transactions, as prototypical products are pre-sold under conditions of considerable uncertainty. To date, we know little about the mechanisms that underlie decisions to back reward-based crowdfunding campaigns. However, it is likely...

Seit Jahrzehnten ist und bleibt die Anzahl von Frauen in der Position des Chief Technology Officer (CTO) niedrig. Das Resultat sind wirtschaftliche und soziale Nachteile sowohl für Unternehmen als auch für die Gesellschaft. Mögliche Ursachen für das ungleiche Geschlechterverhältnis in der...