Entrepreneurial Strategies in New Organizational Populations

Organizational Hubris in Entrepreneurial ICT Settings

The objective of this paper is to determine symptoms of organizational hubris in entrepreneurial ICT settings and to examine whether the environmental conditions of the ICT sector particularly trigger these symptoms. For this purpose, a theoretical framework is developed to transfer existing findings related to organizational hubris in large and established organizations to entrepreneurial ICT ...

Cultural influences and conflict in organizational change in new entrepreneurial organizations in Ukraine

Purpose – The purpose of this case study is to examine a new entrepreneurial business in Kiev, Ukraine. The focus is the difference between employees’ espoused values and their deep beliefs, which leads to conflict among and within employees. Design/methodology/approach – A theory is proposed about the interaction of espoused values, theory-in-use and cultural beliefs. Observation and interview...

Investigating Entrepreneurial Strategies Via Simulation

This paper presents an agent-based simulation tool that enables researchers to study entrepreneurial strategies, their associated financial payoffs, and their knowledge creation potentials under different environmental conditions. Opportunity recognition processes can be analyzed in detail both on a microand macro-level.

A New Perspective to Analyze Organizational Strategies in Business Convergence

Convergence in information and communication technologies has great socio-economic impact not only on the industries involved but also on consumers and the entire global economy. Companies accustomed to practicing their business activities in discrete industries – computer, internet, telephony, wireless, television broadcasting – are confronting transformed environments with new competitors fro...

Generative Emergence: A New Discipline of Organizational, Entrepreneurial and Social Innovation