Entrepreneurial Connectivity

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.

Focuses on new entrepreneurial network market trends resulting from COVID-19 Highlights how entrepreneurial networks need to incorporate innovation Stresses the need for future research to discuss more changing network dynamics in entrepreneurial endeavours

Autorentext

Vanessa Ratten is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at La Trobe University. She is the Program Director of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation subjects and teaches Corporate Venturing and Managing Innovation. She has published seven sole authored books including Sport Entrepreneurship: Developing and Sustaining an Entrepreneurial Sports Culture (Springer). She has also edited more than twenty books including Entrepreneurship and the Community: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Creativity, Social Challenges, and Business (Springer).

Inhalt

1. The role of entrepreneurial connectivity in society.- 2. Disruption and dynamics of competitive advantage a short survey on empirical patterns of entrepreneurial innovation and firm dynamics in the light of technological regimes.- 3. The Past, Present, and Future of Social Entrepreneurship in Indonesia: A Strategy to Move the Ecosystem Forward.- 4. Exploring the role of network intensity to achieve better performance: A case of Indonesian ethnic enterprises.- 5. Artificial Intelligence in the Telecommunication Sector: Exploratory Analysis of 6G's Potential for Organizational Agility.- 6. From shaping of pottery to shaping of a safe tourism: the case of the artisanal routes of Barcelos.- 7. The Saudi Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Economic Implications: Entrepreneurial threats and Opportunities.- 8. Fostering entrepreneurship: towards a model to support community managers.- 9. The incumbent revenge: A blue ocean failure.- 10. The influence of stakeholders in the birth stage of bike tourism networks: an exploratory study in Italy.