This edited collection explores the past, present, and future of artificiality and sustainability in entrepreneurship, the unforeseen consequences, and how to head forward to a sustainable future. First, we integrate the concepts of entrepreneurship and artificiality. We propose that entrepreneurs produce artefacts of entrepreneurship - new ventures, entrepreneurial firms, etc. - that have functions and goals set to respond to the conditions of the diverse environments in which they operate. Second, we contend that the prevailing technological environment can be perceived as an artefact that significantly impacts entrepreneurs, new ventures, and entrepreneurial firms. Digital technologies effectuated new forms of ventures such as born-digital and transformed incumbents to adopt them. Digital technologies come with virtualising our everyday environments and induce behavioral and cognitive changes, which call for new capabilities, e.g., dynamic capabilities. Finally, we conclude with further research questions to be addressed by the entrepreneurship, technology management and sustainability scholars.
Publications
Pundziene, A., Adams, R., Grichnik, D., Volkmann, Ch. (2022): Artificiality and Sustainability in Entrepreneurship. Exploring the Unforeseen and Paving the Way to a Sustainable Future [Editorial]. In: Adams, R., Grichnik, D., Pundziene, A., Volkmann, Ch. (Eds.), Artificiality and Sustainability in Entrepreneurship. Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 3-16.
Adams, R., Grichnik, D., Pundziene, A., Volkmann, Ch., (Eds.) (2022): Artificiality and Sustainability in Entrepreneurship. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer.
Burkhard, B., Sirén, C., van Essen, M., Grichnik, D., Shepherd, D. (2022): Nothing ventured, nothing gained: A meta-analysis of CEO overconfidence, strategic risk taking, and performance. In: Journal of Management (JOM), doi:_10.1177/01492063221110203
Christen, T., Hess, M., Grichnik, D., Wincent, J. (2022): Value-based pricing in digital platforms: A machine learning approach to signaling beyond core product attributes in cross-platform settings. In: Journal of Business Research (JOBR), JOBR-D-21-03876R2.
Hudecheck, M., Siren, C., Grichnik, D., & George, G. (2021): Adversity and Venture Performance: Is Adverse Media Coverage Really That Bad for Entrepreneurial Ventures? In: Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research (FER), BCERC Conference. Best Paper Proceedings.
Grichnik, D. & Hess, M. (2020). Startup Navigator – Guiding Your Entrepreneurial Journey. London: Red Globe Press.
Antretter, T., Blohm, I., Sirén, C., Grichnik, D., Malmstrom, Malin., & Wincent, J. (2020, November 02). Do Algorithms Make Better – and Fairer – Investments Than Angel Investors? Harvard Business Review.
Blohm, I., Antretter, T., Sirén, C., Wincent, J., & Grichnik, D. (2020). It’s a Peoples Game, Isn’t It?! A Comparison between the Investment Returns of Business Angels and Machine Learning Algorithms. Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice.
Antretter, T., Sirén, C., Grichnik, D., & Wincent, J. (2020). Should business angels diversify their investment portfolios to achieve higher performance? The role of knowledge access through co-investment networks. Journal of Business Venturing, 35(5).
Hudecheck, M., Sirén, C., Grichnik, D., & Wincent, J. (2020, April 17). Monitoring the COVID-19 Crisis From Space. MIT Sloan Management Review.
Hudecheck, M., Sirén, C., Grichnik, D., & Wincent, J. (2020, March 09). How companies can respond to the Coronavirus. MIT Sloan Management Review.
Sirén, C., He, V. F., Wesemann, C. H., Jonassen, Z., Grichnik, D., & von Krogh, G. (2020). Leader Emergence in Nascent Venture Teams: The Critical Roles of Individual Emotion Regulation and Team Emotions. Journal of Management Studies.
Grichnik, D. (2019): Entrepreneurial Living – 7 Steps to Entrepreneurial Happiness. London: Union Bridge Books.
Brinckmann, J., Grichnik, D., Villenueva, J., & Singh, L. (2019). Sources of strategic flexibility in new ventures: an analysis of the role of resource leveraging practices. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.
Antretter, T., Blohm, I., Grichnik, D., & Wincent, J. (2019). Predicting new venture survival: A Twitter-based machine learning approach to measuring online legitimacy. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 11.
Palmié, M., Huerzeler, P., Grichnik, D., Keupp, M. M., & Gassmann, O. (2018). Some principles are more equal than others: Promotion‐ versus prevention‐focused effectuation principles and their disparate relationships with entrepreneurial orientation. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 13(1), 93-117.
Sirén, C., Patel, P. C., Örtqvist, D., & Wincent, J. (2018). CEO burnout, managerial discretion, and firm performance: The role of CEO locus of control, structural power, and organizational factors. Long Range Planning.
He Fang, V., Sirén, C., Singh, S., Solomon, G., & von Krogh, G. (2018). Keep calm and carry on: Emotion regulation in entrepreneurs’ learning from failure. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 42(4), 605-630.
Sirén, C., Hakala, H., Wincent, J., & Grichnik, D. (2017). Breaking the routines: Entrepreneurial orientation, strategic learning, firm size, and age. Long Range Planning, 50(2), 145-167.
Thorgren, S., Sirén, C., Nordström, C., & Wincent, J. (2016). Hybrid entrepreneurs' second-step choice: The nonlinear relationship between age and intention to enter full-time entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 5, 14-18.