This book presents: • The results of an empirical analysis of the new phenomenon of virtual clusters (VCs), which highlight the dynamics of these emerging innovation networks in the digital economy; the challenges that this dynamics represents for the conventional theories, which are unable to define a comprehensive framework that supports the development of these networks.• An overview of the most significant theoretical approaches to innovation networks, and their rethinking in the digital economy scenario. Following a neo-Schumpeterian approach, a particular focus is on the...

One of the challenges facing today's management is to develop theories and practices that address the dynamics of business networks. Complexity theory has much to contribute to this purpose. Thus, this volume focuses on exploring the emerging patterns of order and discussing the new management practices suitable to the network economy. Its presents a multidisciplinary analysis of modern businesses as complex systems and some managerial implications of managing complex networks in the knowledge economy. It discusses the impact of major forces that are altering today's business...

A new model of business has emerged within the Digital-Economy called Internetworked Enterprise (IE); it's a model that posits networks, communities of individuals and refusal of a centralized mindset as the core elements of the new frame of reference. Internetworked Enterprises are called by some scholars "Extended" Enterprises, which use digital network to co-operate and compete with other e-business community partners by exchanging knowledge and information across trans-national borders.

Internetworked Enterprise: Technologies and Organizational Prospective s is an edited...

In the current economic landscape, technology-driven entrepreneurship is the driving force behind national economies and societies. It is the engine of innovation, job creation, productivity growth, and economic growth, bringing benefits both at the level of the individual and of the society, promoting sustainable smart growth and development. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in setting up the suitable entrepreneurial learning environments and processes to encourage and foster individual entrepreneurial aptitudes. This book proposes a comprehensive analysis of the existing schools...