Entrepreneurial Connectivity: Network, Innovation and Strategy Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Vanessa Ratten (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 176
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores how entrepreneurial networks provide the basis for individuals and firms to compete based on knowledge asymmetries. This book states that this is crucial in the increasingly interdependent world where social capital influences potential market performance.
This edited book focuses on future trends regarding entrepreneurial networks in terms of social, cultural and market connections thereby bridging the entrepreneurship, strategy and network literature. This book provides a practical way to capture market changes as networks evolve to a more digital format. The impact of innovation and strategy on these market developments will be discussed in each chapter as a way to understand performance.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Contents
Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: The Role of Entrepreneurial Connectivity in Society
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Overview of Book
1.3 Conclusion
References
Chapter 2: Disruption and Dynamics of Competitive Advantage - A Short Survey on Empirical Patterns of Entrepreneurial Innovati...
2.1 Firms, Competition and Innovation
2.1.1 Start-Ups, New Business Models and Disruption
2.1.2 Creative Destruction and Disruption - Two Sides of the Same Medal?
2.1.3 Organization of This Chapter
2.2 Competition and Innovation as Creative Destruction
2.2.1 Industry Evolution and Technological Dynamics
2.3 Innovation and Competitive Advantage
2.3.1 Innovation and Technological Regimes
2.3.2 Determinants of Technological Regimes
2.3.3 Dynamics of Technological Regimes
2.3.4 Reduction of Uncertainty and Onset of Strategic Behaviour
2.4 Development of Knowledge Over Time
2.4.1 Sustaining Innovations Versus Disruptive Innovations and the Survivability of Firms
2.4.2 Disruptive Innovations and Technological Regimes
2.4.3 Technological Regimes and Competitive Effects of Disruption
2.5 Corporate Strategies in the Light of Disruptive Innovation
2.5.1 Assessment of Disruptive Threat (or Opportunity)
2.5.2 Potential Strategies Against Disruption
2.6 Summary and Discussion
References
Chapter 3: The Past, Present, and Future of Social Entrepreneurship in Indonesia: A Strategy to Move the Ecosystem Forward
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The State of Social Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in Indonesia
3.2.1 Pre-Independence Period
3.2.2 Post-Independence Period
3.2.3 Contemporary Period
3.3 Challenges and Gaps in the Social Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in Indonesia
3.4 Strategic Development of the Social Entrepreneurship Sector in Indonesia
3.4.1 Social Entrepreneurial Actors
3.4.2 Social Entrepreneurial Resource Providers
3.4.3 Social Entrepreneurial Connectors
3.4.4 Social Entrepreneurial Cultures
3.5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: Exploring the Role of Network Intensity to Achieve Better Performance: A Case of Indonesian Ethnic Enterprises
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Theoretical Basis and Hypothesis Development
4.2.1 Social Capital Theory
4.2.2 Description of the Javanese Ethnic Group Profile
4.2.2.1 Migration Profile
4.2.2.2 Cultural Mission
4.2.2.3 Social Network
4.2.3 Description of the Minang Ethnic Group Profile
4.2.3.1 Migration Profile
4.2.3.2 Cultural Mission
4.2.3.3 Social Network
4.2.4 Hypothesis Development
4.2.4.1 The Comparison of Performance Between Ethnic Enterprises Owners Who Join Ethnic Community and Who Do Not
4.2.4.2 The Effect of Network Intensity on Firm Performance
4.3 Research Methodology
4.3.1 Research Approach and Variables
4.3.2 Data Collection Technique and Analysis
4.4 Results
4.4.1 Hypotheses Testing
4.4.1.1 Testing for Hypothesis 1
4.4.1.2 Testing for Hypothesis 2
4.5 Discussion
4.6 Conclusion and Future Research Agendas
References
Chapter 5: Artificial Intelligence in the Telecommunication Sector: Exploratory Analysis of 6G´s Potential for Organizational...
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Artificial Intelligence and Organizational Agility
5.3 Practical Manifestation of AI and Organizational Agility in 6G Context
5.3.1 United Nations´ Social Development Goals Driving 6G Development
5.3.2 The Impact of AI on Organizational Agility via 6G Use Cases
5.3.3 The Impact of AI and 6G on Organizational Agility at Different Levels of Analysis
5.3.3.1 User-Level Impacts
5.3.3.2 Business-Level Impacts
5.3.3.3 Sustainability-Level Impacts
5.3.3.4 Geopolitics
5.4 Implications, Limitations, and Future Research Directions
References
Chapter 6: From Shaping of Pottery to Shaping of a Safe Tourism: The Case of the Artisanal Routes of Barcelos
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Artisans and Safe Tourism
6.3 Barcelos´ Artisan
6.4 Methodology and Case Study
6.5 Results and Discussion
6.6 Final Considerations
References
Chapter 7: The Saudi Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Economic Implications: Entrepreneurial Threats and Opportunities
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Historical Overview of CSR Performance During Global Crises
7.3 Summarising Corporations´ Response to COVID-19
7.4 Example from Entrepreneurial CSR Contributions During the COVID-19 Pandemic
7.5 COVID-19 Pandemic, Pain and Opportunity for the Economic Transformation in KSA
7.6 Successful Confronting
7.7 The Saudi Government Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
7.7.1 Stimulating Economy
7.7.2 Supporting the Saudi Health Sector
7.7.3 Support Labour Retention and Protecting the Saudi Society
7.8 COVID-19 Impact on the Saudi Economy
7.8.1 Impact on the Saudi Labour Market
7.8.2 Impact on Saudi Corporates´ Business Model
7.9 Conclusion
7.10 Suggestions for Further Research
References
Chapter 8: Fostering Entrepreneurship: Towards a Model to Support Community Managers
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Entrepreneurship in Coworking Spaces
8.2.1 Coworking as a Practice
8.2.2 The Entrepreneurial Activity
8.2.3 Competence Ingredients
8.3 Approaching Competence: Towards a Model to Foster Entrepreneurial Activity
8.4 Conclusion
8.4.1 Contributions
8.4.2 Limitations
References
Chapter 9: The Incumbent Revenge: A Blue Ocean Failure
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Value Innovation
9.3 The Industry Context
9.4 Varying Capability and Resource Base
9.4.1 E-cigarette Entrepreneurial Entrants
9.4.2 Incumbent Tobacco Firms
9.5 The Incumbents´ Revenge
References
Chapter 10: The Influence of Stakeholders in the Birth Stage of Bike Tourism Networks: An Exploratory Study in Italy
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Literature Review
10.2.1 Network in Tourism
10.2.2 The Role of Stakeholders and Networks in Offering Bike Tourism
10.3 Methodology
10.3.1 Method
10.3.2 Sample, Data Collection and Analysis
10.4 Findings
10.4.1 Terre di Casole Bike Hub Case
10.4.2 Valle Savio Bike Hub Case
10.5 Discussion
10.6 Conclusions
References