Publications

Collaborative organizing for grand challenges 

The Collaborative Innovation and Entrepreneurship professorship focuses on the collaborative paradigm in economic transformation - the ways diverse organizations in globalvalue chains innovate and act in partnerships ...

Developing educational escape rooms for experiential entrepreneurship education

Educational escape rooms (EERs) are increasingly used in education as learning innovations for non-digital and game-based learning (GBL) since EERs positively influence student motivation. They are common in ...

Achieving greater sustainability impact from cross-sector collaborations

Handbook for Strategic City-University co-operation

Worldwide, there is a growing recognition that strategic partnering between cities and universities can bring substantial benefits for both sides. The big question is how to organize such partnerships successfully. ...

Practical guidelines for designing recycling, collaborative, and scalable business models: A case study of reusing textile fibers into biocomposite products

Our current take-make-dispose economic model faces a vital challenge as it extracts resources from the natural environment at faster rates than that the natural environment can replenish. A circular economy where ...

Catching up: The development of legal frameworks for social entrepreneurship in The Netherlands

The development of legal frameworks for social enterprises in the Netherlands is described and analysed in this paper, focusing on 2015-2021. The Netherlands are the largest EU member state in population size without ...

Fenix Project In A Nutshell

Introduction Resilience, pivoting and adaptability are what inspired the name of our project: Fenix. This name refers to the phoenix, the mythological animal that was born again from its own ashes. We consciously ...

Heuristics in financial decision-making: the selection of SME financing by advisers in an increasingly diverse market

Purpose: In order to better understand how heuristics are used in practice, the authors explore what type of heuristics is used in the managerial domain of financial advisors to small and medium-sized enterprises ...

Regulatory Response to the Rise of Fintech Credit in The Netherlands

The rise of financial technology (fintech) driven business models in banking poses a challenge for financial regulators. While the positive effects on the banking sector in terms of greater diversity and competition ...

‘That’s Witchcraft’

This paper theorizes the spiritual processes of community entrepreneuring as navigating tensions that arise when community-based enterprises (CBEs) emerge within communities and generate socio-economic inequality. ...

Automatic Measurement of Corporate Reputation for Retail Companies from Online Public Data on the Web

Retail industry consists of the establishment of selling consumer goods (i.e. technology, pharmaceuticals, food and beverages, apparels and accessories, home improvement etc.) and services (i.e. specialty and ...

Entrepreneurs must reflect on their sales role and get into action! Especially during Covid-19

This article presents seven actions to owner-managers of SMEs about what they should do on the sales side to get their companies and their customers through the crisis. The overarching theme is not to wait but to ...

Strategic orientations and digital marketing tactics in cross-border e-commerce: Comparing developed and emerging markets

In this article, the impact of strategic orientations on the use of digital marketing tactics and, subsequently, on the international business performance of small electronic retailers (e-retailers) in cross-border ...

The Path To Entrepreneurship: Searching And Learning From Role Models

In this study, we address the function of role models for entrepreneurship students. By using entrepreneurs as role models, students can get a better and realistic picture of the complexity of the entrepreneurial ...

I’m not your stereotype: gendering entrepreneurial education (EE)

Questions we care about (objectives). This study contributes to the body of knowledge of entrepreneurial educators’ strategies to work towards gender inclusion in entrepreneurial education (EE). By illustrating ...

Scaling knowledge and innovations for food and nutrition security

Global food systems need to become more sustainable, resilient and inclusive. To accelerate this transition, there is a need for scaling innovative strategies for improved Food and Nutrition Security (FNS), ...

Governing Collaborative Value Creation in the Context of Grand Challenges: A Case Study of a Cross-Sectoral Collaboration in the Textile Industry

The aim of this study is to understand how governance mechanisms in cross-sector collaborations (CSCs) for sustainability affect value creation and capture and subsequently the survival of this organizational form.

Distributed Ledger Technology and the Future of Money and Banking

Nakamoto, S. (2008). Bitcoin: A peer-to-peer electronic cash system. https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf outlined an alternative to the current monetary system in which banks are replaced by a peer-to-peer system to ...

How to promote managers’ innovative behavior at work: Individual factors and perceptions

With the rapid development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), digital technology changes how banks translate new customer demands into new products and services. To achieve this translation, banks ...

Effects of social economic status and parenting values on adolescents’ expected field of study

Field of study decisions are important for children’s future life chances, as significant differences exist in terms of financial and status benefits across fields of study. We examine whether the economic or ...

Business Connections of Migrant Entrepreneurs: Finding a Niche in the Diverse City of Amsterdam

Amsterdam is known to be a cosmopolitan and multicultural city where newly arrived migrants find opportunities to test business ideas. Behind every business idea, there are people supporting the entrepreneurs’ ...

Project Fenix

Project Fenis is at the forefront of pedagogical innovation in teaching Entrepreneurship. It is an excellent example of international research and teaching collaboration in practice.

Entrepreneurial learning at the boundary

The learning innovation we report in this article is an international rapid-prototyping event (48 hours) in which teams of international BSc and MSc students from two universities (Western Europe and South-East ...

From individual sustainability orientations to collective sustainability innovation and sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems

Sustainability and economic growth—the integration and balance of social, environmental, and economic needs—is a salient concern for sustainable development and social well-being. By focusing on a ...

Building a Better Ark: The Potential of Engaging Cultural Thought Leaders and Addressing Power Differential in Authentic, Community-Driven Resilience Planning

Climate change engagement is often conducted on a jurisdictional scale, and stakeholder engagement typically brings representatives from all constituencies around a common table. Yet, individual behavior is largely ...

Coworking spaces: places that stimulate social capital for entrepreneurs

This study examines how social networking facilitated by coworking spaces help entrepreneurs. Drawing on previous research in the different social science disciplines, a conceptual model is proposed that links ...

The story of Tony’s Chocolonely - update December 2020

This is an update of the teaching case published on entrepreneurshipcases.amsterdam. It is not openly available but can be requested by teachers.

Balancing exploration and exploitation in sustainable urban innovation

The potential of technological innovation to address urban sustainability has been widely acknowledged over the last decade. Across cities globally, local governments have engaged in partnership arrangements with the ...

Us before me

A more efficient use of natural resources is considered a necessary condition for their sustainable use. When firms use resources circularly they aim to contribute to using resources more eco-efficiently, and thus in ...

Educational escape rooms in practice: research, experiences, and recommendations

The following e-book was prepared as part of the Erasmus+ UNLOCK project, which has the objective of identifying the use of educational escape rooms (EERs) in higher education environments and examining the role of ...

2021 European E-commerce Report

The European continent is home to diverse markets, with e-commerce markets that also vary greatly. Digital skills, including internet use, alongside purchasing power, are all factors that impact the adoption and ...

COVID-19 and obligatory remote working in HEIs

At present, COVID-19 has caused a possible paradigm shift in education, especially in education delivery for higher educational and learning institutions.

Embodiment of Wearable Technology: Qualitative Longitudinal Study

Background: Current technology innovations, such as wearables, have caused surprising reactions and feelings of deep connection to devices. Some researchers are calling mobile and wearable technologies cognitive ...

Persuasive location-based messaging to increase store visits: An exploratory study of fashion shoppers

Although it appears increasingly important yet potentially challenging to attract customers to physical stores, location-based messaging, i.e., delivering mobile phone messages using data about the recipient's ...

Lessons from entrepreneurial failure through vicarious learning

Despite its widespread occurrence, the topic of failure is barely addressed in entrepreneurship education. Consequently, students are given an incomplete and unrealistic picture of the complexity of being entrepreneurs.

Intervention Framework SmartUp

This comprehensive document shares up-to-date knowledge on Early Warning Signals of business crisis, presents detection and intervention opportunities, and makes a clear case for their beneficial application to SME ...

Urban Innovation Systems

Introduction: There are good reasons to study urban innovation from a systemic perspective. A key finding in innovation research is that organizations rarely innovate in isolation, but in interaction with clients, ...

It works! But now what? Upscaling smart city experiments

The city as lab People and organizations everywhere are working to make the city more sustainable, more circular and climate-proof. Sustainable innovations are not for sale, we have to make them ourselves by ...

Policy evaluation report

In this policy evaluation report, the results of the first 2 years of the Interreg funded ABCitiEs project are presented. In total 16 entrepreneurship collectives have been studied in 5 partner regions, i.e. Athens, ...

Entangled sensemaking at sea

Sustainable commercial fishing, species conservation, and bycatch are contentious topics. Great emphasis has been placed on the sustainable sourcing of particular species that we buy at the store and order in ...

Origins of SWOT Analysis

The origins of SWOT Analysis is obfuscated in the literature. This paper fills that void and reconstructs its early development in context. The empirical basis of SWOT started in 1952 within the Lockheed’s ...

Towards an Optimal IPO Mechanism

Concerns about the negative consequences of the excessive underpricing of the current arrangement in the initial public offering (IPO) market for the provision of entrepreneurial finance—book ...

Adopting zero-waste indigo dyeing production

DyStar is a multinational organization and world leader of dyestuffs and chemical manufacturing. As the world’s largest supplier of textile dyes, it offers a broad range of products and has increasingly ...

The new discomforts of precarious workers: Wardrobe matter, insecurity and the temporality of calibration in dress work

This article provides a study of precarisation through the lens of dress work: the mundane practice of dressing the body for work. Based on intimate in-depth wardrobe interviews and analyses of workers’ ...

An Investigation of Factors Influencing Entrepreneurial Intention amongst University Students

The aim of this study is to investigate the factors affecting the entrepreneurial intention (EI) of university students. In order to do so, EI, individual entrepreneurial orientation, self-efficacy, perceived ...

Effects of app pricing structures on product evaluations

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the marketing literature and practice by examining the effect of product pricing on consumer behaviours with regard to the assertiveness and the sentiments expressed in ...

Toward a theory of affordable loss

Although dozens of empirical studies have been published on effectuation as a whole, much work remains to be done on elaborating each principle in more depth. Based on an exploratory study of seven ventures from the ...

Fear-Free Cross-Cultural Communication: Toward a More Balanced Approach With Insight From Neuroscience

In cross-cultural communication and adjunct disciplines such as cross-cultural management and international business, there is a negativity bias of seeing cultural differences as a source of potential issues. The ...

Productive opportunities, uncertainty, and science-based firm emergence

We provide greater theoretical precision to the concept of productive opportunities of Penrose. We show firm emergence as a recursive cycle of changing productive opportunities. We show how those opportunities result ...

Tay nao de don xuan

'Brainwashing' om de lente te verwelkomen: Veranderende sociale percepties zullen leiden tot veranderingen in levensstijl en hersenfunctie.