Achieving and sustaining growth depends on the effective work of multiple and interconnected actors—such as e.g. governments, the private sector, society, universities, entrepreneurs and many others—who build an ecosystem, i.e. a social and economic environment for innovative and...

Coopetition has received increasing attention in the academic literature. Prior research has examined the benefits and risks of coopetition as well as its potential impact on innovation in many different contexts, including large companies and manufacturing industries. Surprisingly, despite the...

Coworking and its merits and benefits have been under heavy scholarly investigation. Also in practice, the phenomenon with its characteristics and manifestations becomes increasingly relevant on many levels and for many different types of people and organizations. But why is that so, and how are...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand whether the innovative effort of organizations increases or decreases over time, especially when the competitive environment is changing, as has been the case in the current economic downturn. For this reason, the objective of this article...

This study researches an important topic for knowledge-intensive SMEs that operate in clusters. Results from a sample of 830 SMEs as well as from qualitative validation interviews indicate that coopetition, the simultaneous pursuit of cooperation and competition, has a varying impact on...

The paper extends the argument (Reschke 2005b,c,d; Reschke and Kraus 2005) that strategy and strategic management can be seen as elements of a process of social evolution based on a model of systemic evolution that considers feedback on developments from the perception of actors. After...

In this paper, we argue that a trade off between homogenization and differentiation in social and cultural systems can be linked to systemic theories of evolutionary change. We briefly introduce the necessary perspectives from biological evolution, sociology and social psychology, innovation and...

For technology-oriented SME, innovation and growth are important aspects of firm performance. A strategic orientation that emphasizes entrepreneurial behavior (entrepreneurial orientation, EO) may be an effective way to obtain these goals. However, there is little information on the internal...

Most economic theories, which are based on concepts of equilibria and closed systems, do not sufficiently manage to describe the dynamics of the economic process. The Austrian economist Schumpeter already formulated at the beginning of the 20th century that revolutionary innovations are often...