This incisive book uses real-world examples and historical insights to shed light on how inclusive and responsible entrepreneurship can lead to stronger economies and communities.Combining inclusivity, responsibility, crisis management and other related concepts, authors Susanne Durst, Jacques Yana Mbena and Céline Viala adopt a holistic approach to examining the practical benefits of inclusive and responsible entrepreneurship. The book highlights the crucial role that entrepreneur...

This is the most up-to-date book on knowledge management. It covers the principles of knowledge management and translates them to actionable strategies and concrete suggestions. It highlights a novel knowledge management approach that is based on collaboration and inclusiveness that aims to address present risks and future challenges at the societal level. The book is written in a way that makes this important topic accessible to a broad readership.

This book studies the interplay between open innovation and knowledge management issues in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). With the proliferation of the open innovation paradigm and against the backdrop of increasing external knowledge transfer activities, knowledge management is more important than ever for innovation and firm performance in any type of organization. In fact, knowledge management is no longer a purely intra-organizational activity but constitutes a vital interf...

The primary idea behind this book is to provide a platform for the sharing of contributions from the doctoral students of the Entrepreneurship and International Business group at the Department of Business Administration of Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia). The talented group, consisting of students from countries such as Egypt, Estonia, Germany, Ghana, Italy, Kazakhstan and Russia, are studying across various topics relating to Digital Transformation for Entrepreneurship and its...

The book studies the interplay between open innovation and knowledge management issues in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). With the proliferation of the open innovation paradigm and against the backdrop of increasing external knowledge transfer activities, knowledge management is more important than ever for innovation and firm performance of any type of organization. In fact, knowledge management is no longer a pure intra-organizational activity but constitutes a vital interface...

Luckily for humanity, scientist Marie Curie applied her brilliant mind and indomitable spirit to expanding the frontiers of science, but what if she had instead drifted toward the darkness?At the cusp of between child- and adulthood, at the crossroads between science and superstition, a teen Marie Curie faces the factual and the fantastic in this fabulous collection of stories that inspire, delight, and ask the question: What if she had used her talents for diaboli...

Luckily for humanity, scientist Marie Curie applied her brilliant mind and indomitable spirit to expanding the frontiers of science, but what if she had instead drifted toward the darkness?At the cusp of between child- and adulthood, at the crossroads between science and superstition, a teen Marie Curie faces the factual and the fantastic in this fabulous collection of stories that inspire, delight, and ask the question: What if she had used her talents for diaboli...

This book dives deep into everyday entrepreneurial stories with an engaging narrative, based on theory, while providing practical implications by highlighting diverse entrepreneurial examples in emerging themes. It provides a collection of concise authentic entrepreneurship case studies, organized into three main themes: digital entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial learning innovations, and challenging entrepreneurship. The featured case studies are based mainly on primary data gathered from ...

Warmherzig und mit viel Leichtigkeit erzählt Petra Durst-Benning von Zusammenhalt, Mut und der Sehnsucht nach HeimatFleur liebt das Leben in Goldberg. Nirgendwo ist es so schön und idyllisch wie in ihrer Heimat. Doch alles gerät ins Wanken, als ihre Mutter Helene stirbt und die Zukunft des Weinorts auf dem Spiel spielt. Zusammen mit ihrer besten Freundin Eleonore beschließt Fleur, für ihre Stadt zu kämpfen. Goldberg soll richtig aufblühen! In Schwung kommen ihre Plä...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are considered particularly vulnerable to crisis situations due to their limited assets and resources as well as their great dependency on local customers. Holistic risk management is critical to the development of resilience in organizations. This book explores this situation by addressing risk management for SMEs holistically with a focus on continuous learning and the development of dynamic capabilities to increase resilience. It provides a broa...

This book provides an in-depth introduction to crisis management and leadership in SMEs, as well as methods, approaches and cases against the background of different crises; external ones in particular. Featuring contributions from research and practice, this book covers a plethora of SMEs from different sectors to match the diverse nature of small business practice. The combination of a sound theoretical framework for small firm crisis management along with practical instruments/methods a...

This book provides an in-depth introduction to knowledge risk management (KRM) as well as methods, tools and cases to address knowledge risk management issues in both the public and private sector. It focuses on the integration of knowledge risks into the holistic risk management of organizations. In addition, this book is accompanied by an external website that includes additional checklists, videos and company cases. The combination of a sound theoretical framework along with practical i...