This cumulative dissertation explores the factors leading to and resulting from entrepreneurship among Syrian and Iraqi refugees living in Germany, Austria, Egypt, and Lebanon. Using a mixed-methods approach with surveys conducted across these four countries (approximately 350 respondents per study),…
Diese Dissertation untersucht die komplexe Beziehung zwischen Religiosität, Technologieadoption, familiärer Unterstützung und unternehmerischer Resilienz unter muslimischen Unternehmerinnen im Arabischen Golf, mit einem besonderen Fokus auf Bahrain. Sie basiert auf der Institutionentheorie (North, 1990;…
Studies on business model innovation (BMI) have largely focused on firm performance, neglecting outcomes of BMI beyond financial performance indicators. Research lacks empirical findings from the internal organizational dynamics following the inherent transformation process induced by BMI. Rooting our…
The ultimate goal of economics is to understand and improve social welfare. Nevertheless, the dominant discussion in economics is still centered on production, consumption, and monetary outcomes. Therefore, economic growth has been one of the main goals of politics for the last few decades. As a prominent…
Despite the increasing interest in business model innovation (BMI), the literature lacks solid empirical evidence about its impact over time. We address this gap by taking an element-based perspective, differentiating three core dimensions: value creation, value proposition, and value capture. We collected…
Social innovation has increasingly become an issue of policy and particularly given the policy focus on societal grand challenges. As anchor institutions, the challenge for entrepreneurial universities is to effectively respond and contribute to both technological and social innovation through knowledge…
Dordrecht [u.a.]: Springer Science + Business Media B.V, 2023-03
Diese Dissertation schlägt vor, Unternehmertum durch die Theorie des Erfahrungslernens nach Kolb (2015) zu fördern. Unternehmertum wird erreicht, wenn es dem Unternehmer gelingt, eine Gelegenheit zu erkennen. Unternehmerische Selbstwirksamkeit, innovatives Verhalten und die Wahrnehmung von Chancen sind…
Corporate entrepreneurship (CE) is essential for today’s firms and currently a topic of considerable interest within the business community. Although the magnitude of related studies has increased over the last years, research on CE is missing an integrated concept and a research agenda for understanding…
Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing, 2022-06
This study investigates the impact of both university spillovers and firms’ absorptive capacities on firms’ financial performance, using a multilevel approach. Considering internal firm characteristics as well as external regional characteristics, our results clearly show that university spillovers do…
Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing, 2022-03
The positive effect of public research on industrial innovations is beyond controversy: public research institutions produce knowledge that is subsequently transferred into product and process innovations by private businesses. Besides this rather passive role in commercializing inventions, public research…
Dordrecht [u.a.]: Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2022-02
The concept of entrepreneurial ecosystems has been used as a framework to explain entrepreneurial activities within regions and industrial sectors. Despite the usefulness of this approach, the concept is under-theorized, especially with regard to the evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems. The current…
Dordrecht [u.a.]: Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2021-06