Do the startup founders know about cybersecurity-related issues? If yes, at what stage of their organization’s progress, they became familiar with it, and how do they want to tackle this important aspect? Is cyber awareness an accumulating knowledge domain that managers in the digital economy should embrace when creating their…

Classic literature in Psychology refers to human needs as existent, ready-to-fulfill. However, classic research in Innovation literature explained that the creative destruction of incumbents is not always derived through the available needs, rather by the spillover knowledge that can be applied to a non-trivial need. The notion of creating a…

Mass of people traditionally thinks that new knowledge and innovations are brought about by big R&D departments or universities. …

It is of no surprise that innovations occur during hardship. One driver of innovation in societies is the urge of users. Users of a product employ their use knowledge and they usually combine it with their domain knowledge and innovate. …

The very early stage of entrepreneurship takes place when an individual identifies a business opportunity based on her knowledge/ experience. Her risk-taking attitude might enable her to create a venture. Two different theories explain how a person identifies a business opportunity. While opportunity discovery theory emphasizes the exogenous shocks that…

The most prominent factor that distinguishes family firms from others is the cultural identity that can be hardly found integrated into the corporations and public businesses. Cultural identity on a smaller scale is referred to as regional/territorial identity. This element also plays a role as an enabler of competitive advantage…