We explore how digital technologies are helping address grand challenges to tackle climate change and promote sustainable development. With technologies, entrepreneurial organizations have adopted innovative approaches seemingly intractable societal challenges. refer these broadly as sustainability activities. By focusing on the toolbox employed by pioneering organizations, we propose a research agenda that generates novel questions for entrepreneurship, business models, ecosystems well new...

We discuss how environmental and pandemic crises in combination with digitization are presenting the multinational enterprise (MNE) increasing geopolitical, organizational, market tensions. Institutional pluralism is creating a more complex global environment. The organization of productive work shifting, which challenges MNEs structure coordinate their activities. Changing consumer investor expectations broadening understanding value creation implications for business models. contend that...

Entrepreneurs and start-ups are key actors in implementing environmental innovation accelerating sustainability transitions. Thus, analyzing as well predicting the impact of entrepreneurial ventures is central to management entrepreneurship research. The performance, value incumbent firms their products services has been a topic business-related research for many years. However, assessing effects new such neglected area literature. This article therefore provides an overview, including...

Inventors are triply embedded. They embedded in a network of knowledge components that they can reuse future inventions. an inventor network, where internal embeddedness (the strength relationships between focal inventors and their colleagues upon whose the team builds) centrality influence access to information. Finally, firm, with its specific routines favor external or search, what we call search orientation. Using sample 39,785 semiconductor patents, study pattern reuse, recombination...

Research summary: We examine individuals' collaboration preferences in the K nowledge T ransfer N etwork ( KTN ) for UK plastics electronics sector. Using conjoint analysis, we investigate how aspiration gaps and relational capability affect value placed on potential organizational collaborations. Aspiration reflect perception of whether they are ahead or behind peers their career trajectory, captures three distinct dimensions: networking skills, openness to collaborate, network awareness....

Despite the significant increase in interest sustainable business practices, decisions on switching to more environmentally friendly input materials are understudied. In a conjoint experiment, we presented 267 Finnish manufacturing firms with an opportunity acquire alternative, ecological material and investigated their willingness switch that material. We find general, willing substitute current principal alternative under conditions of functional parity. However, such is contingent firm’s...

This article examines how a firm's willingness to make trade-offs that favour sustainability over commercial goals attenuates the relationship between firm-level orientation and subsequent performance. The hypothesis development draws on stakeholder theory literature mission revenue drifts, while empirical analysis is based two waves of original survey data Finnish manufacturing SMEs. We find positively associated with performance only when low, whereas becomes negative such high. Our...

The Regenerative Finance (ReFi) movement aims to fundamentally transform the governance of global common pool resources (CPRs), such as atmosphere, which are being degraded despite international efforts. ReFi seeks achieve this by utilizing digital monitoring, reporting, and verification (D-MRV); tokenization assets; decentralized approaches. However, there is currently a lack clear path forward create implement models that actually drive “Re-” in beyond perpetuating existing extractive...

Abstract We investigate the salience of expertise in creating high impact inventions and question experts’ ability to deploy novel ideas. Specifically, we examine relationships between expertise, component originality, a team's structural holes’ position collaborative network propose that, relative terms, expert teams create lower if they more original components occupy holes. test confirm our hypotheses sample semiconductor firms. In post‐hoc analyses, find three‐way interaction where...

The manuscript investigates whether the individual personality trait, Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)—typically considered negative—influences willingness individuals to contribute Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), a phenomenon that emerged after blockchain revolution. We conducted both qualitative and quantitative work in this space present results an international survey, including conjoint experiment. Theoretically, we anchor our study signaling theory propose signal valence (the positive or...

We investigate the role firms play in dealing with data protection. draw parallels between ethical challenges regarding capabilities and other social issues that over time have instigated evolution of corporate responsibilities. Our contention is we can learn from history management responsibility to clarify under which conditions new become prerogative firm responsibility. review suggests evolve into responsibilities if value creation potential underlying issue significant (condition)...

Topic modeling and LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) have proven valuable in various fields as an innovative approach to studying areas of interest identifying topics a dynamic content. The underlying assumption is that techniques like can swiftly capture emerging textual documents compared other categorization tools. These unsupervised approaches been used identify new industries technological domains. However, our study on the nascent topic “sustainability” within corpora SGX-listed...

We explore how old technologies can be recombined to generate new inventions. consider four ways by which serve as templates: subtraction, reconfiguration, addition, and replacement. Subtraction reconfiguration do not require changing a prior combination of components, whereas for the latter two, components are introduced. test these ideas using patent data from US semiconductor industry. The study’s findings suggest that re-using previous combinations results in higher impact. However, all...