Special Issue "Digital Entrepreneurship and the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs)"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 September 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Naoum Mylonas
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Assistant Guest Editor
Department of Tourism, Ionian University, Corfu 49132, Greece
Interests: Entrepreneurship; Creative Industries; Gender issues in Management; Creativity in Management
Dr. Adamantia Pateli
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Chief Guest Editor
Department of Informatics, Ionian University, Corfu 49100, Greece
Interests: information systems management; business models; open innovation; digital entrepreneurship

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, digital technologies (DTs) such as mobile computing, cloud computing, social media, 3D printing, and data analytics have played a critical role both in facilitating business model innovations and in generating opportunities for entrepreneurs to create high-tech businesses. This trend has attached importance to a new research field that constitutes the intersection of digital technologies and entrepreneurship—called “digital entrepreneurship”—and calls for further investigation of digital technologies and their potential to shape new ventures. Digital entrepreneurship is defined as “the pursuit of opportunities based on the use of digital media and other information and communication technologies” (Davidson and Vaast, 2010, p. 2).

The cultural and creative industries (CCIs) are considered a significant engine of economic growth, job creation, and social cohesion. More recently, they have also emerged as a hub of entrepreneurial innovation. The CCIs are generally understood as including “architecture, archives and libraries, artistic crafts, audio-visual (including film, television, video games and multimedia), cultural heritage, design (including fashion design), festivals, music, performing and visual arts, publishing and radio” (European Commission, 2010). The rise of digital technologies has enhanced the growth and transformation of CCIs, particularly in sectors where technology has a highly significant role, such as the digital games industry. As result, new digital ventures emerge, prompting research attention on creating and managing digital entrepreneurship. The growth of digital entrepreneurship in CCIs has many advantages, such as low startup costs, easy access to formal and informal peer-networks, and enhancement of value creation and capture.

The aim of this Special Issue is to provide a forum for discussing the latest research findings on the intersection of digital entrepreneurship and CCIs and highlighting the critical factors of digital ventures’ success in CCIs. Both quantitative, qualitative, and conceptual contributions are accepted. A successful article should have the potential to incite vigorous academic discussion on the presented topic.

In this framework, topics of interest for this Special Issue include but are not limited to the following:

  • Business model innovation in CCIs;
  • DTs and entrepreneurship in CCIs;
  • CCIs digital entrepreneurs: personality, mindset, motivation;
  • Crowdfunding and crowdsourcing;
  • Digital network platforms of services and applications in CCIs;
  • Digital entrepreneurship and tourism promotion;
  • Digital cultural heritage management and digital skills for cultural institutions;
  • The growth of communities through digital entrepreneurship in CCIs;
  • Determinants of ventures’ success and performance in CCIs via the use of ICTs;
  • Networks, CCIs and DTs;
  • Incubators, CCIs, and new venture creation.

Dr. Adamantia Pateli
Dr. Naoum Mylonas
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • digital entrepreneurship
  • creative industries
  • cultural industries
  • business models
  • digital technologies
  • innovation
  • tourism

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The Impact of Information Technology and Sustainable Strategies in Hotel Branding, Evidence from the Greek Environment
Sustainability 2021, 13(15), 8543; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158543 - 30 Jul 2021
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Information Systems, Sustainable Development and Hotel Branding are the main study areas of this specific research. In recent years, many technologies have been which have started to be implemented in the hospitality industry, but the full potential of these technologies has not yet [...] Read more.
Information Systems, Sustainable Development and Hotel Branding are the main study areas of this specific research. In recent years, many technologies have been which have started to be implemented in the hospitality industry, but the full potential of these technologies has not yet been analyzed in order to understand how they could help companies to develop branding strategies and increase the customer’s loyalty and business performance. Moreover, due to the pandemic crisis due to COVID-19, hotel companies have to manage a new crisis, which affects both the economic and social pillars of their sustainable development. Therefore, the hospitality industry must be more flexible in adopting information technologies and sustainable philosophies, firstly for their own survival and secondly to strengthen their position inside the task environment. The methodology approach was based both on the literature review and qualitative methodology, which was conducted through questionnaires. The aim of this research is to analyze the above concepts and see how this combination could lead the hotel companies to develop a competitive advantage inside their task environment. The findings of this research concern the region of Greece. They reveal that there is a strong correlation among the above concepts, and each company should start to adopt sustainable philosophy, use information technologies, and develop new branding strategies. Full article
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The Differences in the Propensity of Providing Smart Services by SMEs from the Electrical Engineering Industry with Regard to Their Cooperation and Innovation Flexibility
Sustainability 2021, 13(9), 5008; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13095008 - 29 Apr 2021
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There is still a lack of empirical evidence about smart service in general, and more particularly, in small and medium sized firms (SMEs). For SMEs, where the implementation of smart technologies is more demanding, the importance of cooperation with other business partners and [...] Read more.
There is still a lack of empirical evidence about smart service in general, and more particularly, in small and medium sized firms (SMEs). For SMEs, where the implementation of smart technologies is more demanding, the importance of cooperation with other business partners and innovation flexibility increases dramatically. The purpose of this article is to determine how the cooperation and innovation flexibility of SMEs affect the propensity to provide smart services in the electrical engineering industry. This paper also contributes a deeper insight into the intensity scale of collaboration within SME providers of smart services regarding the types of smart services offered. The empirical evidence is based on quantitative and firm-level data gathered through an email questionnaire which yielded 112 SME companies from the electrical engineering industry in the Czech Republic. The analysis is based on factor analysis, non-parametric tests, and binary logistic regression to identify the differences and effects of collaboration and innovation flexibility. The results of the factors affected confirmed external cooperation flexibility with customers and innovative flexibility in relation to the products as significant with inverse relationships between external collaboration with customers and the propensity to provide smart services. It is evident that weak ties in external customer cooperation flexibility operate as incentives or driving forces in the provision of smart services to establish closer relationships. The deeper research insights as well as the theoretical and practical implications are discussed at the end of the paper. Full article
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