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Technology-Driven Entrepreneurship for a Sustainable Future

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2024) | Viewed by 6484

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Prof. Dr. Vida Davidavičienė

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Department of Business Technologies and Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Business Management, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, LT-10223 Vilnius, Lithuania
Interests: ICT development; ICT adaptation; knowledge-driven innovations; social networks; gamification; augmented reality; virtual teams; remote work; telework; e-business; e-marketing; e-logistics; e-government; e-behaviour
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Dear Colleagues,

Technology-driven entrepreneurship has emerged as a key driver of sustainable development and economic growth in recent years. Technological innovations empower entrepreneurs to create solutions to address existing and upcoming environmental, social, and economic challenges. New management models, in line with technologies, are receiving more power in today’s organizations. Corporate social entrepreneurship, among other aspects, is becoming an important way of doing business.

The current research is oriented towards aspects such as innovative entrepreneurship prerequisites for social progress (Manea et al., 2021), performance evaluation indicators for social enterprises (Procházková et al., 2021), assessment of corporate social responsibility performance (Lu et al., 2020), social entrepreneurship development (Hack et al., 2014), corporate social entrepreneurship and educational institutions challenges in line with case studies (Davidavičienė and Raudeliūnienė, 2021; Rickhoff-Fischer et al., 2021), fostering CSE using social media tools (Martín-Rojas et al., 2020), CSE case studies (Osburg, 2014; Sirine et al., 2020), and many more.

We encourage the submission of studies to this Special Issue which address the challenges of Technology-Driven Entrepreneurship for a Sustainable Future, proposing new scientific insights, classifications, evaluation methodologies, and decision-making process analyses for changing business models and the transition to an environmentally friendly economy, resulting in socially responsible business performance.

The following are the topics of interest for this Special Issue: innovative technologies and social innovations; technologies for circular economy; corporate social entrepreneurship; technological solutions for green business transformation; industry 4.0; changing needs and behaviour models of society; green economy; green marketing, etc.

We invite you to contribute to this Issue by submitting comprehensive reviews, case studies, or research articles. Papers selected for this Special Issue are subject to a rigorous peer-review process, with the aim of achieving the rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments, and applications.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Vida Davidavičienė
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • technology-driven entrepreneurship
  • innovative entrepreneurship
  • corporate social entrepreneurship
  • corporate social responsibility
  • innovations
  • management of technological change
  • change in management of organizations
  • innovative business models
  • business process management
  • social innovations
  • Industry 4.0
  • green supply chain
  • smart solutions
  • green economy
  • sustainable management
  • sustainable finance
  • virtual organizations
  • remote work

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The Basics of Home Office (Re)institutionalisation from the Perspective of Experiences from the COVID-19 Era
by Janusz Rymaniak, Vida Davidavičienė and Katarzyna Lis
Sustainability 2024, 16(9), 3606; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16093606 - 25 Apr 2024
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After COVID-19, the dynamics of home office development slowed down. According to the experiences of major companies, the problem is “fluctuating”. Research from the pandemic era covers various aspects and fails to present the concept of synthetic developmental conditions. Therefore, the issue of [...] Read more.
After COVID-19, the dynamics of home office development slowed down. According to the experiences of major companies, the problem is “fluctuating”. Research from the pandemic era covers various aspects and fails to present the concept of synthetic developmental conditions. Therefore, the issue of extending the organisation to home spaces was undertaken, identifying the determinants of the sustainable development of workplaces and organisations. The key is to create sustainable work systems, i.e., adapted to the environment, while being creative, critical, and productive. This study aims to establish the cultural determinants of home office development based on empirical research from the perspective of neo-institutionalism. For this purpose, the institutional logics were subject to operationalisation and the co-dependencies of metalogics with the types of organisational cultures assumed in the Cameron–Quinn OCAI model were established. The information was collected in a CAWI survey. The presented research procedure constitutes a methodical innovation. The results demonstrate a trend of changes in the dominating types of organisational culture from market control to cooperation and creation with a stimulating role of professional logics (occupation, organisation) from the perspective of working from home which brings sustainable management and business models. There is a subtle role of home logic and low employee readiness level. The adapted cultural approach demonstrates that increasing effectiveness of home office solutions requires development of integrated practices, which consider this type of work as separate and specialised. The past corporate failures and spontaneous methods cannot serve as grounds for strategies (long-term solutions). However, the research demonstrates a low level and limited range of employee impact on the organisational culture. It also indicates the need for additional analyses to determine the concept of designing workplaces in the Sustainability–Harmonisation trajectory. Full article
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Sharing Economy Development: Empirical Analysis of Technological Factors
by Aurelija Burinskienė, Virginija Grybaitė and Olga Lingaitienė
Sustainability 2024, 16(4), 1702; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16041702 - 19 Feb 2024
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The development of the sharing economy is accelerated using digital technologies. Such a topic is not widely discussed in the literature and requires knowledge to fill the existing gaps. The authors analyzed technology-driven variables which have the highest impact on expanding sharing activities. [...] Read more.
The development of the sharing economy is accelerated using digital technologies. Such a topic is not widely discussed in the literature and requires knowledge to fill the existing gaps. The authors analyzed technology-driven variables which have the highest impact on expanding sharing activities. The research helps to examine the degree of integration of society into the process of sharing economy development. This paper aims to create a methodology that helps to evaluate the development of sharing platforms dependent on technological variables such as society’s access to digital services. Two activities are foreseen to achieve the goal. The first activity includes the steps necessary for revising technological variables (the compilation of an initial list of variables, the selection of variables, normalization, and the formation of correlation matrix). The second activity is designed to form a panel regression model using several sharing platform cases. Using the developed methodology, the revision of technological variables is carried out to expand the knowledge of economic science about the intensifying processes of the digitization of society, the resulting changes in consumption, and the redistribution of conventional economic solutions in the markets for goods and services. The authors compared the technological variables which had the highest impact on sharing platforms. The study results demonstrated that among ten sharing platforms, the highest dependence on technological variables is evident in the number of visitors visiting the Uber sharing platform. Full article
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A Comparative Analysis of Social Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship: An Examination of International Co-Authorship Networks
by Karin Kurata, Shuto Miyashita, Shintaro Sengoku, Kota Kodama and Yeong Joo Lim
Sustainability 2023, 15(22), 15873; https://doi.org/10.3390/su152215873 - 12 Nov 2023
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This study aimed to identify the boundaries between social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship research through conducting a comparative analysis of international co-authorship networks. Analyzing 29,510 papers published in the Web of Science database from 1999 to 2021, this study utilized bibliometric analysis to examine [...] Read more.
This study aimed to identify the boundaries between social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship research through conducting a comparative analysis of international co-authorship networks. Analyzing 29,510 papers published in the Web of Science database from 1999 to 2021, this study utilized bibliometric analysis to examine international co-authorship networks, the strength of international co-authorship, and the top collaborative and collaborating countries. The results found that based on quantitative analysis, social entrepreneurship research focuses more on local challenges and less on international collaboration as compared to entrepreneurship research. Moreover, the findings reveal the involvement of developed countries in the international co-authorship for social entrepreneurship research field. This study sheds light on the characteristics of social entrepreneurship research, which focuses on local and regional challenges. Contrastingly, entrepreneurship research focuses on the globalized field while sharing information and technology. These insights could benefit researchers, practitioners, and educators in prioritizing globalization in entrepreneurship and localization in social entrepreneurship. Full article
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