TY - JOUR A1 - Drăgan, George Bogdan A1 - Ben Arfi, Wissal A1 - Tiberius, Victor A1 - Ammari, Aymen T1 - Gravitating exogenous shocks to the next normal through entrepreneurial coopetive interactions BT - a PLS-SEM and fsQCA approach JF - Journal of business research N2 - Purpose: Entrepreneurship can be viewed as an individual or group pursuit of market opportunities irrespective of the context. But when an exogenous shock alters and permanently alters the known normal, entrepreneurs can do no more than cope with the immediate impact. Covid-19 changed the normal for every-one, and the current study aims to analyse how the pandemic changed the context and entrepreneurial perspective of business owners geographically located in different cultural environments. Various experiences impacted them as they tried to navigate and mitigate the effects of the crisis on the wider economy and their business. We seek to identify the probable relevant entrepreneurial configurations in which one or more combinations of antecedent conditions are needed to cause entrepreneurs to adapt their behavior in order to increase their coopetitive interactions further, to mitigate the effects of the crisis.Originality: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first empirical study to address an entrepreneurial phenomenon using an integrative approach using PLS-SEM and fsQCA as separate prediction-oriented methods in order to validate the proposed conceptual model and to create a preliminary scaffolding for building the Theory of Unplanned Behavior in a crisis context. KW - entrepreneurial coopetitive interactions KW - entrepreneurial behavior KW - PLS-SEM KW - fsQCA KW - next normal KW - theory of unplanned behavior Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.113627 SN - 0148-2963 VL - 157 PB - Elsevier CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dehnert, Maik T1 - Sustaining the current or pursuing the new: incumbent digital transformation strategies in the financial service industry JF - Business Research N2 - Digital transformation (DT) is a major challenge for traditional companies. Despite the term, DT is relatively new; its substance is not: a whole stream of research has examined the relationship between DT and firm performance with contradictory findings. Most of these studies have chosen a linear correlational approach, however, did not analyze the holistic interplay of DT dimensions, leading to firm performance. This applies especially to the mature financial services industry and the future perspectives of traditional financial service providers (FSP). Hence, it remains an open question for both research and practice what DT configurations have a positive impact on firm performance. Against this background, the aim of this exploratory study is to examine how DT dimensions are systemically connected to firm performance of incumbent FSP. Drawing on a qualitative-empirical research approach with case data from 83 FSP, we identify digital configurations along different levels of firm performance. Our findings suggest an evolution of digital configurations of FSP, leading to five empirical standard types from which only one managed to establish a profound basis of DT. KW - Digital transformation KW - Banking KW - Insurance KW - Financial services KW - Configurational analysis KW - fsQCA Y1 - 2020 SN - 1866-8658 VL - 13 PB - Springer Nature CY - Berlin ER -