Digital technologies have become a new economic and social force, reshaping traditional business models, strategies, structures, and processes. Digital entrepreneurship, which focuses on creating new ventures and transforming existing businesses by developing novel digital technologies or their novel usage, is seen as a critical pillar for economic growth, job creation, and innovation by many countries. Further, digital technologies have also enabled the growth of the sharing economy, linking owners and users and disrupting the previous dualism of businesses and customers.This volume discusses the management of new technology-based firms and technology projects initiated in academic or industrial contexts. The contributions feature new theoretical concepts, ethical considerations, empirical data analysis (qualitative and quantitative), archival and historical methods, design science approaches, action and field research, as well as management science methods, informatics and cybernetics.

Digital technologies have become a new economic and social force, reshaping traditional business models, strategies, structures, and processes. Digital entrepreneurship, which focuses on creating new ventures and transforming existing businesses by developing novel digital technologies or their novel usage, is seen as a critical pillar for economic growth, job creation, and innovation by many countries. Further, digital technologies have also enabled the growth of the sharing economy, linking owners and users and disrupting the previous dualism of businesses and customers.This volume discusses the management of new technology-based firms and technology projects initiated in academic or industrial contexts. The contributions feature new theoretical concepts, ethical considerations, empirical data analysis (qualitative and quantitative), archival and historical methods, design science approaches, action and field research, as well as management science methods, informatics and cybernetics.

Biotechnology Entrepreneurship reviews past research on biotechnology at different levels of analysis. The goal is to highlight important research streams that scholars have pursued over the last two decades and illustrate some key findings. After an introduction, the authors introduce some key definitions and concepts which are necessary for readers new to the field of biotechnology entrepreneurship to understand the studies subsequently introduced. The monograph summarizes work on biotechnology entrepreneurship at the regional level and extends the review to the firm and individual levels of analysis, respectively. Finally, it highlights future research opportunities in the field of biotechnology entrepreneurship and draws final conclusions.

Nachdem Edward Said die Konstruktion des Islam im Westen" anhand einer kritischen Diskursanalyse untersucht hat, fragt sich, wie Gegendiskurse auf der Seite der Muslime aussehen, wie sie selber den Islam" konstruieren und sich in Bezug auf globale Entwicklungen positionieren. Aus einer ethnologischen Perspektive heraus wird in dieser Arbeit das Fallbeispiel Ostafrika im Internet nher betrachtet. Das Internet als das neue Medium, welches sich viele neuere Strmungen im Islam bedienen, bietet hier die Mglichkeit, rezente Entwicklungen und Inhalte der einzelnen Diskurse zu erfassen. Insgesamt wurden 24 Internetseiten zum Thema Islam in Ostafrika zwischen November 2007 und Februar 2008 untersucht, die grtenteils Inhalte verschiedener Reformbewegungen im Islam in Ostafrika publizieren. Anhand einer kritischen Diskursanalyse wird die Diskursposition von zehn ausgewhlten Internetseiten in Bezug auf ihre Einstellungen zu "Bidaa," "Neuerungen in der Religion," erarbeitet. Trotz dieses kleinen Ausschnittes der Diskurse im Islam in Ostafrika knnen in der Interpretation der Diskurse Schlsse auf deren Wirkung und den gesamtgesellschaftlichen Diskurs gezogen werden.