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{"title":"Call U Back: An Agent-Based Infrastructure for Mobile Commerce","authors":"Xining Li, Jiazao Lin","doi":"10.4018/jeei.2011040101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jeei.2011040101","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile commerce (M-commerce) is an attractive research area due to its relative novelty, rapid growth, and great potential in business applications. Over the last decade, various M-commerce applications have been geared to target mobile users and achieved great success. However, most M-commerce applications are developed by different retailers for special purposes and thus lack fully automated business processes to integrate various existing services. This paper presents a novel infrastructure, Call U Back (CUB), for M-commerce applications. The proposed scheme integrates concepts of agent and contextaware workflow to implement automated trading tasks and compose services dynamically. The context awareness is based on ontology and logic models which derive from a set of descriptive contextual attributes for knowledge sharing and logical inference. Based upon the context-aware workflow analysis, the system will generate automated intelligent agents to conduct commerce transactions on behalf of mobile users. The middleware layer of the CUB server has been implemented. An experimental prototype of the system is under development and testing.","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126443348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mobile Banking Innovations and Entrepreneurial Adoption Decisions","authors":"V. Ratten","doi":"10.4018/jeei.2011040103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jeei.2011040103","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines an individual’s entrepreneurial adoption decisions to use mobile banking for both business and social reasons. A conceptual model based on social cognitive theory is developed to explain an individual’s propensity to adopt mobile banking. The theoretical framework examines how advertising, experience, perceived risk, learning inclination, and entrepreneurial proclivity influence a person’s intention to use mobile banking. This paper stresses the role of financial risk in determining a person’s intention to use mobile banking and whether their entrepreneurial nature is influenced by their experience and advertising they are subjected to about the advantages or disadvantages of mobile banking. This paper ties together research on technological innovation with entrepreneurship and learning studies. The author stresses the importance for financial institutions to market the innovativeness of mobile banking whilst addressing security concerns. The impact of a person’s social environment through personal contacts and acquaintances underpins social cognitive theory and helps to understand the motives for a person adopting mobile banking. The paper integrates mobile banking literature with current thinking on the importance of entrepreneurship and learning influences to how a person adopts a technological innovation.","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126473836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ICTs in the Micro-Enterprise: An Examination of Usage, Benefits and Firm Growth in Hawaii's Agricultural Sector","authors":"K. Burke","doi":"10.4018/jeei.2011040104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jeei.2011040104","url":null,"abstract":"Though there is an extensive body of research regarding information and communication technology (ICT) use in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), relatively few studies have examined ICT use specifically in the subset of SMEs known as micro-enterprises. This study compares ICT use among micro-enterprises (MEs) in the agricultural sector. Factors expected to influence IC adoption include firm size, CEO education, and the type of crop produced. Results indicate extensive use of computers and the Internet, especially for functions like email, online purchasing, and online business-related research, while website ownership is less widespread. Larger MEs are more likely than smaller ones to use a computer. Among those MEs owning computers, larger ones are more likely than smaller ones to have a website and to conduct financial activities online. However, most other ICTs (email, online purchasing, etc.) are used similarly by both smaller and larger MEs. Thus, for most internet ICTs micro-enterprise growth does not result in differing adoption rates. The study also investigates micro-enterprise use of emerging social technologies like instant messaging, chat, blogging, etc. Micro-entrepreneurs’ perceptions of ICT benefits and implications for development are also discussed. 2010). This paper follows SBA definition of SME and the EC definition for ME. Prior research suggests a number of factors influencing computer technology adoption in small businesses, including perceptions of benefits and customer needs (Beckinsale et al., 2006; Dholakia & Kshetri, 2004), lack of financial resources (Foong, 1999), lack of personnel with technical expertise (Beckinsale et al., 2006; Igbaria et al., 1998), the CEOs lack of experience with various ICTs (Palvia & Palvia, 1999), and participation in community-based web forums (Deakins et al., 2004). Firm size and age are factors common to many prior studies. While some results suggest that size and DOI: 10.4018/jeei.2011040104 40 International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 2(2), 39-58, April-June 2011 Copyright © 2011, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. age do affect ICT uptake (Teo, 2007; Haugh & Robson, 2005) others have found differently (Teo & Ranganathan, 2004). The mixed nature of prior results suggests a need to view SMEs from different perspectives. For instance, a preponderance of SME ICT research fails to distinguish MEs from larger SMEs. To be sure, a number of studies have examined ICT use in MEs, but even in these studies the primary perspective includes MEs as SMEs. The current study argues that MEs can be seen as being structurally and functionally different from their larger SME brethren. Furthermore, no prior research can be found to compare ICT adoption among MEs to determine whether smaller MEs adopt differently than larger MEs. This study seeks to bring clarity by introducing an integrated theor","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133610051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Advancing the Potential of Diversity for Innovation","authors":"Nancy D. Erbe","doi":"10.4018/jeei.2010100102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jeei.2010100102","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter introduces the connections between contemporary conflict talents and optimal facilitation of multicultural groups. It begins with scholarly links between cultural diversity and ingenuity along with resultant challenges. The chapter then shows how conflict skills can create and sustain the cooperative conditions promoted by scholars for nurturing innovation. Research evaluating ideal multicultural process will be shared. The author hopes that understanding these specifics will encourage business to adopt best practices in their pursuit of innovation. Ultimately, business will also recognize and embrace the rich assets of multicultural employees, teams and approaches. Daniel Goleman describes this as schooling in emotional intelligence (Goleman, 1995). He believes that competitive advantage requires cooperative training in the social skills described here. Exemplary collaboration is necessary to fully leverage business, particularly intellectual, assets. For readers unfamiliar with contemporary business scholarship, this article exemplifies the growing academic use of qualitative research for in-depth exploration of the real world complexities and nuances faced by business today. One popular example of qualitative methods is the business ABStrAct","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"23 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131307719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Breaking Out from Lock-In: Regional Innovation Srategies in the German Ruhrgebiet","authors":"G. Hospers","doi":"10.4018/jeei.2010100104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jeei.2010100104","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses strategies aimed at regional-economic structural change in the German Ruhrgebiet. The Ruhrgebiet used to be the largest industrial area in Western-Europe. After the crisis in the coal and steel industry the region pursued re-industrialisation policies in the 1960s and 1970s. These attempts were largely unsuccesful. Therefore, since the 1980s the involved actors gradually adopted regional innovation strategies. Thus, they were able to break out from the region’s lock-in situation. The re-orientation of the Ruhrgebiet towards innovation based on the industries’ expertise and past (e.g. environmental technology, energy and industrial tourism) is more successful than its earlier re-industrialisation attempts. Also for other old industrial areas in Europe this kind of place-based renewal might be the future.","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121812117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Role of Creativity (and Creative behaviour) in Identifying Entrepreneurs","authors":"Deborah Richards, P. Busch, A. Bilgin","doi":"10.4018/jeei.2010100103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jeei.2010100103","url":null,"abstract":"As the importance of creativity and in turn innovation for individuals, organizations, nations and the global community as a whole becomes recognized, so too does the value of identifying those individuals with the potential to become entrepreneurs. The nature of creative knowledge is such that it draws typically upon both codified and tacit forms of knowledge, to which end an instrument is presented based on workplace scenarios combined with a number of psychometric tests. With opportunities for innovation afforded by the internet, the identification and development of a new breed of individuals known as e-entrepreneurs seems particularly worthwhile. Thus in this study we have focused on scenarios within the field of information and communication technology. Results indicate innovators may present multiple personality styles which offer strengths to entrepreneurial activities. Finally through identification of creative personnel our approach offers a way for organizations to cultivate promising entrepreneurs. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-597-4.ch009 International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 1(4), 36-54, October-December 2010 37 Copyright © 2010, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. survival has been generally recognized (Porter, 1985). In highly competitive and uncertain environments, it logically follows that the success of an ICT venture by an e-Entrepreneur will largely depend on the innovation associated with the venture and ability of the entrepreneur to creatively respond to opportunities and threats. Many courses, often at the postgraduate level, have emerged over the last decade seeking to develop entrepreneurs and equip students to understand and manage innovation. Interestingly, the study by Zampetakis and Moustakis (2006) found that the study of business courses at university including those intended to promote innovative and entrepreneurial behaviour tended to dampen motivation to pursue this path. Instead, desire to become an entrepreneur was related to a student’s self-perception of creativity, in turn largely the product of being exposed to a culture of self-employment within their home environment. Entrepreneurs by definition need to be highly motivated and selfdriven individuals. Thus motivation, desire and determination play important roles in achieving success. Innovation is often driven and enabled by technology. ICT ventures provide strong extrinsic motivators to entrepreneurs who are intrinsically motivated to identify and exploit business opportunities. Given the difficulty of producing entrepreneurs via education and training, this paper is particularly interested in offering a method by which potential e-entrepreneurs can be identified as measured by their creativity and responses to innovation relevant scenarios. As an extension the method can also be used to identify compatible business partners in a joint venture and to i","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125931078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Study of SME Innovation in Two Queensland Industries","authors":"D. Thorpe, S. Goh","doi":"10.4018/jeei.2010070102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jeei.2010070102","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter describes research in innovation in smaller SME firms in Southern Queensland, Australia. The industries selected for this study were micro manufacturing in the Darling Downs Region and domestic building constructions in South East Queensland. Results of this research and its implications for innovation in the SME industry sector are discussed. While the firms studied, and the research methodology used, were quite different in each case, it was found that there were common factors that aided and \u0000inhibited innovation in each industry. These factors have implications for SME firms in other industries. \u0000Suggestions are made in the chapter with respect to the ongoing facilitation of innovation in such firms.","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127325078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"E-social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation: The Case of On-Line Giving Markets","authors":"A. Gutierrez, J. A. A. Montes","doi":"10.4018/jeei.2010070103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jeei.2010070103","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper the authors mainly aim at describing some organizational features of a particular kind of social enterprises that have emerged since the development of web 2.0: peer to peer charities and e-social banking. They will define first the traditional social enterprise and how this phenomenon has evolved in recent years. Then they will explain how the philosophy of Web 2.0 offers new opportunities for the development and growth of these social initiatives. Thirdly, they will detail their main features obtained from the study of twelve inititatives – the most relevant at present – which they have called 2.0 social enterprises (peer to peer charities and e-social banking). The authors will finally offer some reflection on main dilemmas and challenges that could be faced in a short term future.","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"143 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116524545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Entrepreneurship Competencies and Management Capabilities for Innovation and sustainable Growth: Empirical Study","authors":"M. Omar, M. Lewrick","doi":"10.4018/jeei.2010070104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jeei.2010070104","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this chapter is to challenge the context of innovation education. We build our arguments in step with actual practice analyzing data from over 200 innovative companies which have been created under the formal requirements of a regional business plan competition during the last 10 years. This study explores the crucial capabilities to start an innovative business and discuss the capabilities have to be developed to sustain innovation and business growth. Therefore, it can be hypothesised that entrepreneurship and innovation education provided by Universities, Centres for Entrepreneurship and through coaching by Business Plan Competitions should focus on building awareness for the necessity of innovations and prepare inventors, entrepreneurs and students for not simply starting an enterprise but the change process in growing companies. The questions are not of whether or not educate people about entrepreneurship and innovation but rather what are the context and the capabilities needed to sustain business and become an innovative and successful entrepreneur?","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131627243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Integrated Business Model Innovation Approach: It is Not All about Product and Process Innovation","authors":"R. Boutellier, Markus Eurich, Patricia Hurschler","doi":"10.4018/jeei.2010070101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jeei.2010070101","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter will foster the understanding of business model innovation with a focus on the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry and e-entrepreneurship. A general overview of business models and their elements as well as an introduction to innovation alternatives will provide the necessary background for business model innovation. On the basis of Schumpeterian innovation, this chapter will pioneer in describing business model innovation as addendum to Abernathy’s and Utterback’s dynamic model of process and product innovation. Thereby an integrated business model innovation approach will be initiated overcoming the drawbacks of unilateral innovation. The integrated business model innovation approach proposes a framework for long-term differentiation and competitive advantages. Different examples, in particular ICTventures, will clarify the effect of integrated business model innovation. DOI:10.4018/978-1-61520-597-4.ch001 2 International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 1(3), 1-13, July-September 2010 Copyright © 2010, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. the network effect through electronic platforms that enable the processing of information, communications and transactions (Kollmann, 2006a). The economic opportunities within the Net Economy are termed e-business (Kollmann, 2006a). ICTs are playing a decisive role in business model innovation as the advent of modern ICTs facilitated the development of new services and the realization of innovative e-business ideas. We call a start-up in e-business an ICT-venture. ICT-ventures, such as Skype Technologies S.A. (http://www.skype.com), Joost N.V. (http://www.joost.com), MySpace (http://www.myspace.com), or Adobe Systems Inc. (http://www.adobe.com), have shown to be scoring particularly well in developing and deploying the latest ICTs. The business logic of an ICT-venture is influenced by ICT as either its products can only be developed by the means of ICTs or the ICT-venture develops new or more sophisticated ICTs itself. This chapter explains the effects of the net on business models: the Internet enables electronic products, electronic processes, new ways of reaching customers, and new value networks. The business scope of a company, which traditionally did business in the Real Economy, can be redefined on the basis of ICT-enabled business transformation (Venkatraman, 1994) and ventures can accomplish innovations in industries, in which innovation has no longer been considered as being possible anymore. An ICT-venture is typically doing business in the Net Economy. Moreover, ICT-enabled ventures can break the mold of doing business through the introduction of ICT in the Real Economy. Enterprises developing and deploying sophisticated ICTs offer their products or services on the basis of either direct electronic creation of value (e.g. Adobe Systems Inc.) or ICT-enabled creation of v","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134010934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}