Springer KEEN Book 2021: Artificiality and Sustainability in Entrepreneurship. Exploring the unforeseen and paving a way to the sustainable future |
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Submission deadline | June 21, 2021 |
Springer, FGF Studies in Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Artificiality and Sustainability in Entrepreneurship. Exploring the unforeseen and paving a way to the sustainable future
Context and background
In this edited collection, we explore the past, present, and future of artificiality and sustainability in entrepreneurship - the unforeseen consequences and ways to head forward to the sustainable future. In particular, we link artificiality, sustainability and entrepreneurship, and the adaptation that is characteristic of the artificial, with the specific phenomenon of those novel digital technologies that provoke continuous and significant change in our lives and business. While digital entrepreneurship research focuses on digital technology development and management, the book covers processes and mechanisms of sustainable adaptability of entrepreneurs, start-ups’ business logic, and the collaborative behaviours under the mass digital transformation, including the prevalence of Artificial Intelligence.
“The term ‘artificial’ has, in recent years, almost by default, become associated with the science of Artificial Intelligence. Herbert Simon’s ideas, as presented in The Sciences of the Artificial, remind us that the artificial exists as synthesized things – artefacts - which may or may not imitate natural phenomena, and have functions and goals designed in response to the environmental conditions in which it exists. As such, the artificial has special resonance with the concept of entrepreneurialism. Daily, entrepreneurs design novel and adapted products, services, processes, business models, organisational designs, ventures, relationships, collaborations, ecosystems, discourses and practices; these may be considered the artefacts of entrepreneurship.
The core intellectual activity of devising artefacts to attain goals, Simon argued, is to change existing situations into desired states. The sustainability agenda, digital transformation and economic recovery in a post-Covid 19 world indicate possible future desired states. As JG Ballard noted in his novel Empire of the Sun, ‘reality itself is a stage set that can be dismantled literally overnight. Our day-to-day routine, our home life, schools. Nothing is as secure as we like to think it is’.
How has entrepreneurship reacted to such challenges previously? What lessons have been learned and need to be carried forward? How can entrepreneurship and the artefacts of entrepreneurship respond to current challenges? What should be the mind-set of the entrepreneur to assure sustainable adaptation? How to embrace and embed new business logic?
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List of Topics
Under the topic of artificiality and sustainability in entrepreneurship we aim to explore past, present, and future of the adaptability of the entrepreneurs, business logic and collaborative behaviours to mass digital transformation, and the ways entrepreneurship might contribute to the sustainability of the artificiality. Research might cover, however should not be limited to the topics:
- Sustainability of the value-chains in digital entrepreneurship;
- Phenomenon of the artificiality in entrepreneurship;
- Entrepreneurial mind-sets and digital transformation;
- Dynamic capabilities and entrepreneurialism in environmental sustainability and digital transformation;
- Adaptation and sustainable growth of digital start-ups;
- The effect of digital technology in start-up scaling and sustainable growth;
- The dynamics of value creation and appropriation in digital start-ups across different business sectors;
- Dynamics of the architectures of value-chains in digital entrepreneurship;
- The role of networks and collaborative behaviour in digital entrepreneurship;
- The role of networks and collaborative behaviour in social and environmentally responsible entrepreneurship
Important deadlines
Full chapter submission: 4 January- 31 May 2021
Review process and feedback: June, 2021
Revised chapter submission: 2 August, 2021
Final notification: 16 August, 2021
Editors
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Adams Richard, University of Cranfield, UK, r.j.adams@cranfield.ac.uk
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Dietmar Grichnik, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, dietmar.grichnik@unisg.ch
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Asta Pundziene, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, asta.pundziene@ktu.lt
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Christine Volkmann, University of Wuppertal, Germany, Volkmann@wiwi.uni-wuppertal.de
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to ieva.anuziene@ktu.lt