This article is based on Norman Bowie's idea of a "profit-seeking paradox," which states that companies have the best chance of making profits if they do not place profit-making as such at the centre of their activity, but instead pursue a stakeholder-oriented business policy that focuses on...

Developing a viable business model is crucial when founding a start-up. We present a teaching approach based on business model development in the context of the Gruendungsgarage. Following a blended learning approach, the business model was developed with the aid of a MOOC, a business model...

This paper provides insights towards the development of an impactful entrepreneurial course called New Venture Creation. The course is based on the principals of Lean Start-up methodology but modified to encompass the demands from a Higher Educational Institution. The course has shown positive...

The family business: Special features, stages of development, familiness and enterpriseness, succession, socialisation context FU -- Theory section: systems theory, symbolic interactionism, role theory, excursus: merging the theories -- The family business from a systems theory perspective:...

A shared semiconductor research infrastructure can be studied as a local innovation ecosystem consisting of an infrastructure-operating company and user companies. This study focuses on investigating the forms of sustainable value that such infrastructure provides for its users, as well as value...

Background: The innovativeness of founders and their heirs and family businesses (FBs) is a relatively unexplored field of research, and its understanding is incomplete and inconsistent. Objectives: The goal is to compare the founders' innovativeness and investigate the relationship of life-long...

Abstract The company’s rapid adaptation to digital transformation (DT) both in the most innovative economies and in the less innovative economies is one of the topics that keeps the field of innovation studies very busy but also governments. The artificial intelligence (AI) sector is one of...

A vast literature has examined the contractual technology that venture capital (VC) funds and entrepreneurs deploy in the U.S. to define an agency cost-minimising structure of their relationship, leading many to conclude that U.S. VC contracts are the best real-world solution to the challenges...

This paper reviews the empirical literature on the existence and impact of gender discriminatory laws on women's outcomes across various domains (categories) that constitute the Women in Business and the Law measure of gender inequality. The evidence to date suggests that there are significant...