Digitalization plays a major role in contributing towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Without transformation of existing businesses, both economic and environmental challenges of the future cannot be solved sustainably. However,...
The advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) offers new opportunities for business model innovation in digital platform enterprises. Despite growing interest in AI applications, the specific mechanisms through which digital platform firms leverage...
In recent years, the role of digital enterprises in the global economy has been growing. The issue of assessing their impact on social aspects is noticeable. The aim of the article is to show social impact as a key factor in the development of digita...
The paper focuses on the relationship between businesses and digital transformation, and how digital transformation has changed manufacturing in several ways. Aspects like Cloud Computing, vertical and horizontal integration, data communication, and...
Prevalent digital technologies have changed the landscape of business. There have been a growing number of studies investigating the intersection of digital technologies and business. This study aimed to map the academic literature in digital busines...
This study was developed under the scope of a Portuguese project focused on the entrepreneur’s perspective and perception on the internationalization process of his company: more specifically, about the factors that enhanced the company entry i...
In the digital economy era, small service business struggle to compete in a rapidly changing and dynamic market. Therefore, through digital transformation (DT), small service business seek to increase their competitive advantage, improve business per...
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Digital transformation is contributing to changes in how both production processes and transactions take place among firms within global value chains (GVCs). Firms navigate rapid advancements in digital technologies, such as Industry 4.0-embodied tec...
The digital transformation of business models is a process which helps traditional business solutions reach new functionalities through innovative technologies. Digital transformation is now crucial to the development of the rail transport sector. Th...
The considerable body of literature on business models, business model innovation, and sustainable business models has yet to fully account for the impact of external dynamics—including the digital imperative—on generating sustainable val...
This article explores several aspects of digital transformation, including definition, enabling technologies, and strategies. It argues that firms seeking to maximize the impact of their digital transformation strategy should aim to build a Sustainab...
Digital business models often emerge rapidly and attract users, yet only some become durable over time. This paper develops the concept of business model establishment to capture the process through which a digital business model becomes organization...
The adoption and usage of digital technologies is considered one of the most promising transformations for sustainability, and sustainable entrepreneurship is considered key for providing solutions for the grand social and environmental challenges. T...
In the current dynamic business landscape, digital transformation is recognized as a critical driver of entrepreneurship, innovation, and growth, particularly among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This study aims to investigate the key fac...
Digital business model innovation is discussed by bringing together systemic innovation and digital innovation. Applying the Rich Picture technique, the complexity transpiring in the digital innovation of the business models is illustrated. Further,...
The higher education sector is in the eye of the hurricane of the digital revolution, immersed as it is in an ongoing digital transformation (DT) process that is expected to result in significant changes in the current business model. Despite the rel...
The lack of awareness of digital services and outcomes is a concern in business environments since small firms need to improve their digital competencies. The present exploratory study investigated whether business apps training was associated with e...
As digital content increasingly moves away from free access, microtransactions may provide an alternative. There is a need for research on microtransactions as a general digital content payment mechanism. Businesses can capitalize on this technologic...
With accelerating digital transformation, firms must renew how they create, deliver, and capture value to remain competitive and to advance sustainable competitiveness. This study examines how ambidextrous market orientation drives digital business m...
Based on the theoretical frameworks on dynamic capabilities and business model innovation, we conducted a comprehensive survey and analysis involving 451 Chinese university student enterprises. The primary objective was to investigate the synergistic...
Cross-organizational collaboration in digital manufacturing systems is often hindered by fragmented data handoff, inconsistent versions, and delayed downstream collaboration across lifecycle stages and heterogeneous systems. To address this issue, a...
Digitalization is increasingly reshaping business models, yet the mechanisms through which specific digital technologies influence business model transformation in renewable energy remain insufficiently understood. Unlike prior research that treats d...
In the last few decades, there has been a surge of interest in the development of fashion business models to assist fashion companies in reducing the cost and to efficiently manage business processes. These business models are developed to manage the i...
The purpose of this study is to examine how apparel SMEs in less-developed regions of China adapt to long-term retail digitalization and how these adaptations relate to business resilience and the creation of consumer and community value. This two-an...
The purpose of this paper is to enhance understanding of digital capabilities (DC) by examining various attributes and integrating findings from previous studies on the impact of DC on business performance (BP) using the balanced scorecard approach....
The hospitality business model has undergone profound changes influenced by successive waves of technological advances and platforms. This paper explores how different waves of technologies and platforms are shaping the evolution of the hospitality b...
Within the fast paced digital transformation of the tourism and hospitality sector, the modalities of booking a tourist accommodation have been radically transformed by the uptake of digital business models and digital platforms. This study examines...
The optimization of the business environment makes regional economic development more dynamic. Whether this can be used as an influencing factor to promote the green innovation of enterprises is worthy of attention. Based on the concept of digitaliza...
This study investigates how data science competencies, conceptualized as the micro-foundations of digital dynamic capabilities (DDCs), combine to influence the development of digital business capability (DBC). Using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative...
The roles and positive impacts of business incubators, including virtual ones, in promoting entrepreneurship and innovation in multiple industries, and their consequent contributions to fostering sustainable economic growth and social development, ha...
Digitalisation has evolved as a multidimensional phenomenon and impacts the business world. SMEs heavily invest in digital platform capabilities to keep track of digital transformation, enabling them to perform business model experimentation to gener...
For years, the freight forwarding industry has been facing high levels of global competition. Accelerating this development, new and digital competitors are entering the market, striving to make freight logistics even faster, cheaper, and more predic...
Digital Business Services (DBS), industries that have grown rapidly in recent years, played important roles in facilitating the adoption of digital technologies, as well as having applications in innovative products, transforming business processes a...
The role of the digital business environment (DBE) in the sustainable development of enterprises (SDE) has received extensive attention. This study aims to discover what factors of DBE affect SDE. The empirical results based on China’s inter-pr...
The success of a business organization on its path to digital transformation depends on the success of the various stages of the project in order to adopt the selected digital business solutions. The success of this project is determined to a large e...
Emerging technologies have capabilities to reshape business process management (BPM) from its traditional version to a more explorative variant. However, to exploit the full benefits of new IT, it is essential to reveal BPM’s research potential...
The increasing role of emerging technologies, such as big data, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence (AI), cognitive technologies, cloud computing, and mobile technologies, is essential to the business process manager profession’s su...
This study examines the Effect of management orientation on digital business and business growth and the Effect of digital business on micro and small business growth. This research belongs to the associative/explanatory category accompanied by hypot...
Throughout the review of the most relevant literature on family businesses and business valuation, this work pursues a twofold purpose: to explore the possible evolutionary scenarios of family businesses in the era of digitalisation, highlighting the...
Customer relationship management (CRM) has become increasingly important as a result of the pressure organizations are under to remain competitive. CRM has been and is widely promoted as essential to a company’s ability to survive. According to...
Digital transformation is now one of the key engines of entrepreneurial behavior and company development, but there is still a lack of empirical evidence on the creation of digital ecosystems, especially in the Middle East and North African (MENA) re...
The topic of a sustainable business model is currently the subject of much scientific research that covers a wide range of topics, from terminological aspects to aspects related to the impact of sustainability factors on company development. So far,...
The COVID-19 pandemic has become a key event that has changed our lives. Businesses had to change their daily operations, and working from home has become the norm. Almost everyone who is working from home must use some type of digital technology. It...
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For many, digital transformation is the new normal. However, in particular, pipeline businesses in traditional industries, such as standard-setting organizations (SSOs), are reluctant to radically rethink their business models, as they have often suc...
This research investigates how business model changes induced by digital transformation impact productivity within the maritime transport sector in Croatia. Given the limited existing literature addressing digital transformation’s productivity...
Comprehending the motivating factors that drive Digital Business Transformation (DBT) is crucial for cultivating success in DBT initiatives. The objective of the research outlined in this paper was to pinpoint and categorize the factors that inspire...
This paper aims to measure the development level and dynamic evolutionary characteristics of the digital business environment, and explore its sustainable development strategies, which would contribute to the sustainable development of the digital ec...
In recent years, digital marketing has transformed the way in which companies communicate with their customers around the world. The increase in the use of social networks and how users communicate with companies on the Internet has given rise to new...
This study examines the relationships between digital transformation, business development, and firm performance in manufacturing firms operating in a developing country, with a particular focus on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Based on...
Digital technologies are reshaping how firms create, deliver, and capture value, prompting growing interest in digital business model innovation (DBMI). Despite increasing scholarly attention, the existing research remains fragmented and often assume...
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