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Digital Entrepreneurship and the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs)

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 25104

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Adamantia Pateli

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Guest Editor
Department of Informatics, Ionian University, Corfu 49100, Greece
Interests: information systems management; business models; open innovation; digital entrepreneurship
Dr. Naoum Mylonas

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Co-Guest Editor
Department of Tourism, Ionian University, Corfu 49132, Greece
Interests: Entrepreneurship; Creative Industries; Gender issues in Management; Creativity in Management

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, digital technologies (DTs) such as mobile computing, cloud computing, social media, 3D printing, and data analytics have played a critical role both in facilitating business model innovations and in generating opportunities for entrepreneurs to create high-tech businesses. This trend has attached importance to a new research field that constitutes the intersection of digital technologies and entrepreneurship—called “digital entrepreneurship”—and calls for further investigation of digital technologies and their potential to shape new ventures. Digital entrepreneurship is defined as “the pursuit of opportunities based on the use of digital media and other information and communication technologies” (Davidson and Vaast, 2010, p. 2).

The cultural and creative industries (CCIs) are considered a significant engine of economic growth, job creation, and social cohesion. More recently, they have also emerged as a hub of entrepreneurial innovation. The CCIs are generally understood as including “architecture, archives and libraries, artistic crafts, audio-visual (including film, television, video games and multimedia), cultural heritage, design (including fashion design), festivals, music, performing and visual arts, publishing and radio” (European Commission, 2010). The rise of digital technologies has enhanced the growth and transformation of CCIs, particularly in sectors where technology has a highly significant role, such as the digital games industry. As result, new digital ventures emerge, prompting research attention on creating and managing digital entrepreneurship. The growth of digital entrepreneurship in CCIs has many advantages, such as low startup costs, easy access to formal and informal peer-networks, and enhancement of value creation and capture.

The aim of this Special Issue is to provide a forum for discussing the latest research findings on the intersection of digital entrepreneurship and CCIs and highlighting the critical factors of digital ventures’ success in CCIs. Both quantitative, qualitative, and conceptual contributions are accepted. A successful article should have the potential to incite vigorous academic discussion on the presented topic.

In this framework, topics of interest for this Special Issue include but are not limited to the following:

  • Business model innovation in CCIs;
  • DTs and entrepreneurship in CCIs;
  • CCIs digital entrepreneurs: personality, mindset, motivation;
  • Crowdfunding and crowdsourcing;
  • Digital network platforms of services and applications in CCIs;
  • Digital entrepreneurship and tourism promotion;
  • Digital cultural heritage management and digital skills for cultural institutions;
  • The growth of communities through digital entrepreneurship in CCIs;
  • Determinants of ventures’ success and performance in CCIs via the use of ICTs;
  • Networks, CCIs and DTs;
  • Incubators, CCIs, and new venture creation.

Dr. Adamantia Pateli
Dr. Naoum Mylonas
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • digital entrepreneurship
  • creative industries
  • cultural industries
  • business models
  • digital technologies
  • innovation
  • tourism

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The Significance of Digital Network Platforms to Enforce Musicians’ Entrepreneurial Role: Assessing Musicians’ Satisfaction in Using Mobile Applications
by Ofilia Psomadaki, Maria Matsiola, Charalampos A. Dimoulas and George M. Kalliris
Sustainability 2022, 14(10), 5975; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14105975 - 14 May 2022
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Digital entrepreneurship through the employment of smartphones and other handheld device applications is an innovative form of customer approach. Particularly, in the cultural marketing sector, new technologies, such as social media, YouTube channels, and mobile applications may increase the artists’ visibility and attract [...] Read more.
Digital entrepreneurship through the employment of smartphones and other handheld device applications is an innovative form of customer approach. Particularly, in the cultural marketing sector, new technologies, such as social media, YouTube channels, and mobile applications may increase the artists’ visibility and attract new partnerships and audiences. In this framework, entrepreneurs-musicians who attended a seminar on Management of Cultural Heritage, Communication and Media in Greece were asked to promote their activities through the creation of a smartphone application. After having completed their endeavor and further evaluated it, they participated in qualitative research based on the theory of experts’ interviews, as a case study. The aim of this paper, through thematic analysis of the conducted interviews, is to reflect upon the dynamics of new technologies in music entrepreneurship. As derived by the analysis, the use of mobile applications may effectively approach prospective partnerships and audiences, especially if combined with other contemporary forms of communication, and results in presenting enhanced professionalism. Audience engagement, which is an issue that is sought while attempting to optimize promotion processes, may be achieved if a further practice is performed. As the research was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for this form of making publicly known their artwork was considered essential. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Entrepreneurship and the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs))
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Business Innovation in Orchestra Organizations Supported by Digital Technologies: The Orchestra Mobile Case Study
by Ioannis Poulios and Efrosini Kamperou
Sustainability 2022, 14(7), 3715; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14073715 - 22 Mar 2022
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In an attempt to deal with challenges such as increased competition, the global economic crisis, and the pandemic crisis, cultural organizations increasingly tend to adopt business theories and tools. The present paper addresses this issue in an industry that is not very frequently [...] Read more.
In an attempt to deal with challenges such as increased competition, the global economic crisis, and the pandemic crisis, cultural organizations increasingly tend to adopt business theories and tools. The present paper addresses this issue in an industry that is not very frequently discussed, that of orchestra, using Orchestra Mobile as the case study. Based on literature review and interviews, and with reference to some of the latest, innovative approaches to management and strategy supported by digital technologies, the paper examines how this new entry in the industry (in 2010): (i) not attached to a concert hall (and, therefore, dependent on others) and with no state funding, survived against established organizations of global recognition, who were attached to prestigious concert halls, and enjoyed strong funding on the part of the state; (ii) with no external support, succeeded within the peak of the global economic crisis; (iii) decided long before the pandemic crisis to operate mostly at a distance, based on geographically dispersed members and collaborators; and, more importantly, (iv) challenged the rules of an industry that were formed in the 18th and 19th centuries and have not been (substantially) challenged ever since. The conclusions on the complex relationship of “sustainability-innovation-digital technologies” could be of benefit to a wide range of cultural organizations and entrepreneurs. Full article
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Is It Digital Entrepreneurship? Designing a New Sport through Audience Ethnography
by Linda Leung and Daniel Feldman
Sustainability 2021, 13(21), 11690; https://doi.org/10.3390/su132111690 - 22 Oct 2021
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In designing a brand-new sport, do basic tenets of digital entrepreneurship such as ‘solve a user problem’ apply? How is it possible to understand who the potential audience might be for a product and experience that does not yet exist in a Culture [...] Read more.
In designing a brand-new sport, do basic tenets of digital entrepreneurship such as ‘solve a user problem’ apply? How is it possible to understand who the potential audience might be for a product and experience that does not yet exist in a Culture Industry such as sports? The paper examines the beginnings of an Australian startup with an early-stage product in the sports and entertainment industry and its use of digital ethnography to investigate key audience segments. The process of audience development occurred alongside the prototyping and testing of a high-tech product that is central to the sport. As the product underwent iterations of development and release, audience interaction with the product was tracked through social media. Discourse analysis of audience engagement with the product on Facebook was conducted to inform a series of user personas that indicated a heavy male bias in the future audience. In exploring the intersection of sports, Cultural Industries and digital entrepreneurship, the paper concludes with observations of how this case challenges each of those notions through the process of ‘starting up’. Full article
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The Impact of Information Technology and Sustainable Strategies in Hotel Branding, Evidence from the Greek Environment
by Sotirios Varelas, Panagiota Karvela and Nikolaos Georgopoulos
Sustainability 2021, 13(15), 8543; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158543 - 30 Jul 2021
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Information Systems, Sustainable Development and Hotel Branding are the main study areas of this specific research. In recent years, many technologies have been which have started to be implemented in the hospitality industry, but the full potential of these technologies has not yet [...] Read more.
Information Systems, Sustainable Development and Hotel Branding are the main study areas of this specific research. In recent years, many technologies have been which have started to be implemented in the hospitality industry, but the full potential of these technologies has not yet been analyzed in order to understand how they could help companies to develop branding strategies and increase the customer’s loyalty and business performance. Moreover, due to the pandemic crisis due to COVID-19, hotel companies have to manage a new crisis, which affects both the economic and social pillars of their sustainable development. Therefore, the hospitality industry must be more flexible in adopting information technologies and sustainable philosophies, firstly for their own survival and secondly to strengthen their position inside the task environment. The methodology approach was based both on the literature review and qualitative methodology, which was conducted through questionnaires. The aim of this research is to analyze the above concepts and see how this combination could lead the hotel companies to develop a competitive advantage inside their task environment. The findings of this research concern the region of Greece. They reveal that there is a strong correlation among the above concepts, and each company should start to adopt sustainable philosophy, use information technologies, and develop new branding strategies. Full article
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The Differences in the Propensity of Providing Smart Services by SMEs from the Electrical Engineering Industry with Regard to Their Cooperation and Innovation Flexibility
by Lucie Kaňovská and Veronika Bumberová
Sustainability 2021, 13(9), 5008; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13095008 - 29 Apr 2021
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There is still a lack of empirical evidence about smart service in general, and more particularly, in small and medium sized firms (SMEs). For SMEs, where the implementation of smart technologies is more demanding, the importance of cooperation with other business partners and [...] Read more.
There is still a lack of empirical evidence about smart service in general, and more particularly, in small and medium sized firms (SMEs). For SMEs, where the implementation of smart technologies is more demanding, the importance of cooperation with other business partners and innovation flexibility increases dramatically. The purpose of this article is to determine how the cooperation and innovation flexibility of SMEs affect the propensity to provide smart services in the electrical engineering industry. This paper also contributes a deeper insight into the intensity scale of collaboration within SME providers of smart services regarding the types of smart services offered. The empirical evidence is based on quantitative and firm-level data gathered through an email questionnaire which yielded 112 SME companies from the electrical engineering industry in the Czech Republic. The analysis is based on factor analysis, non-parametric tests, and binary logistic regression to identify the differences and effects of collaboration and innovation flexibility. The results of the factors affected confirmed external cooperation flexibility with customers and innovative flexibility in relation to the products as significant with inverse relationships between external collaboration with customers and the propensity to provide smart services. It is evident that weak ties in external customer cooperation flexibility operate as incentives or driving forces in the provision of smart services to establish closer relationships. The deeper research insights as well as the theoretical and practical implications are discussed at the end of the paper. Full article
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The Role of Managerial and Technological Innovations in the Tourism Industry: A Review of the Empirical Literature
by Georgios Giotis and Evangelia Papadionysiou
Sustainability 2022, 14(9), 5182; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14095182 - 25 Apr 2022
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The constant changes typically present in the market along with intense competition force companies to be flexible and adaptable. Firms that operate in the tourism industry need to be well prepared and ready to face challenges that arise on different levels. Managerial and [...] Read more.
The constant changes typically present in the market along with intense competition force companies to be flexible and adaptable. Firms that operate in the tourism industry need to be well prepared and ready to face challenges that arise on different levels. Managerial and technological innovations can play a significant role in the profitability, sustainable development and longevity of a company. In this respect, this paper aims to analyze the role of innovation, as well as the key elements that affect the capability of a firm to manage innovation (as corporate strategy, organizational structure, management style, employee management, innovation process and knowledge management). To this end, it highlights the importance of the way that a firm is directed in order to enhance its performance and maintain its competitive advantage in the market. Some of the results show that the proper style of management, appropriate personnel and a pleasant working environment characterized by collaboration among employees and managers enhance the possibilities of a firm to increase innovation. Moreover, some managerial implications are also proposed to assist managers of firms in the tourist industry to create appropriate strategies. Since managers are positive and support innovation in all aspects of the firm, this may also enhance the use of technology, which will give tourism firms increased opportunity to enlarge their market share. In addition, our study accentuates the roles of ICT, social media, mobile phones and smartphones, websites, as well as multimedia, virtual and augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and several other technological advances in the tourism industry, which have helped to develop operations and transform the process of travelling to a much more pleasant and efficient experience. Within this framework of the essential role of managerial and technological innovations in tourism, our study aims to provide an extensive review of the empirical studies that have been conducted to investigate these issues. Full article
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