Risk is inevitable in business. For large companies, risk management is formalised and structured through compliance with industry standards. However, small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) rarely have adequate resources to develop their own standards or conform to pre-established criteria....

Auf der Basis einer umfassenden Analyse internationaler empirischer Studien der vergangenen 25 Jahre sowie einer empirischen Untersuchung von 468 jungen KMU setzt sich Sascha Kraus erstmals für den deutschsprachigen Raum mit dem Zusammenhang zwischen strategischer Planung und Erfolg in jungen...

This paper proposes a concept called ‘strategic entrepreneurship’ that is grounded in the three academic fields of strategy, entrepreneurship and marketing. Regrettably, those concepts are only rarely or partly applied in SMEs and young ventures. We therefore argue for a synthesis of the...

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...