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Hatching and fledging? A meta‐analysis of the performance effects of business incubators

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Business incubators are among the most widely implemented instruments to foster entrepreneurship. Yet empirical evidence on their effectiveness remains fragmented and often contradictory. Limited research systematically compares how different types of incubators influence multiple venture performance outcomes, including ...
Jorge‐Vinicio Murillo‐Rojas, Jan Brinckmann, Marc van Essen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Generative AI—the Transgression of Technology

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a systems‐theoretical analysis of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) grounded in Niklas Luhmann's sociology of technology. It addresses a central conceptual problem: How GenAI can be understood within a theoretical framework that has traditionally defined technology as a means of stabilising action through causal ...
Jesper Tække
wiley   +1 more source

“Where’s the Vibe?” How to Avoid Getting Stuck in Outdated Cultural Criticism and Reclaim Reflection in the Social Media Discussion

Социология власти
This paper examines the characteristic features of contemporary left-wing cultural critique of social media on an example of the writings of Geert Lovink, a Dutch media theorist and founder of the Institute of Network Cultures.
E. V. Kolpinets
doaj  

Digital habitus and the sociotechnical transformation of everyday life in the United Arab Emirates: a hybrid framework of governmentality, surveillance capitalism, and Gulf state modernity. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Abulbasher A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Venture Capital Practices in Saudi Arabia: The Views of Investors

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how venture capital (VC) investors in Saudi Arabia evaluate, negotiate, and support entrepreneurial ventures in a rapidly developing yet institutionally young setting. Drawing on 21 semi‐structured interviews with 24 investors, it offers rare insight into VC practices in the Middle East.
Tibah al‐Harbi, Renzo Cordina, David M. Power   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

State-amplified platform inequality: The economic geography of digital cultural policy in China. [PDF]

PLoS One
Su LD, Pang ZH, Tan ZH, Wen ZX, Ren M, Zhang Y.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Guanxi and Wasta: 20 Years of Evolution and Future Directions for Informal Network Research

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article provides an examination of the evolution of networking in China and the Arab world over two decades and provides an update to, and new insights arising from, an article called Guanxi and Wasta; A Comparison, published in Thunderbird International Business Review in 2006.
Kate Hutchings, David Weir, Sa'ad Ali, Sven Horak   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Platform gentrification: The production of urban inequalities in the on-demand city. [PDF]

Open Res Eur
Sequera J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Game Changers: Leadership Lessons From Popular Sport Icons

New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 25-31, Spring 2025.
ABSTRACT This article explores leadership lessons that can be drawn from popular sport icons. These lessons reveal how athletes leverage their status to drive social change or how they inspire others through performance‐based practices that align with effective modern‐day leadership skills.
S. Lynn Shollen, Maylon Hanold
wiley   +1 more source

Platform power, athlete branding, generative AI, and the future of sport governance-a systematic review. [PDF]

Front Sports Act Living
Westerbeek H, van Schaik T.
europepmc   +1 more source