Introduction The acknowledged move from traditional public administration (TPA), over to new public management (NPM), then to the current shift towards new public governance (NPG) has spurred an increased awareness on the role of external stakeholders in developing public services, and hence the way public sector innovation takes place (Hartley, 2005; Torfing, 2019).

IntroductionWhat are now called “social machines” have been around for decades as part of a computer-driven wave of digitalization that has taken over developed societies around the world, including but not limited to the invention of the Internet. People and machines are becoming increasingly integrated through computing power, data processing and storage, information

IntroductionIn recent years, various food scandals have damaged consumer trust in the food industry across the world (Sarpong, 2014; Garaus & Treiblmaier, 2021). In 2011, China witnessed a massive pork mislabeling scandal along with food fraud, which led to recalling donkey meat products that included fox meat (Kamath, 2018). In 2013, several meat suppliers in Europe replaced

IntroductionThe growth of competition, environmental challenges, and market changes make it ever more important for companies nowadays to ensure that they utilize resources as efficiently and effectively as possible. Rapid technological development also increases the technological opportunities to streamline businesses and take fuller advantage of existing opportunities to

This inductive study explores factors by which some new and innovative firms try yet fail to achieve born-global status. Born-global studies have a survivorship bias, with errors of omission that paint a favourable picture of how innovative and well-funded new ventures internationalise. In this paper, we counter such biases by focussing on innovative ventures that expressed intentions to become born global but failed to do so. Our findings reveal that these new ventures fail in two ways. Either they underestimate the need to tailor a portfolio of value propositions and over-extend their efforts across too many markets, a pattern called "baby born-global". Or they over-commit to one market at a time, thus limiting their capacity to develop value propositions in similar markets, a pattern called "micro multinational".

The Value Proposition (VP) development practices of a company are an expression of the most fundamental organizing principles of its business (Webster, 2002). It has been defined as “a strategic tool facilitating communication of an organization’s ability to share resources and offer a superior value package to targeted customers” (Payne et al., 2017). At the same time, the

IntroductionIn Finland, farm size compared with many other European countries is small, though increasing steadily. Bigger farm size in most cases enables better utilization of new technology, automation, and digitalization. With increasing farm size, a farmer’s work turns more into a manager’s, instead of doing the work by themselves.A farmer’s work focuses on allocating

IntroductionIn complex contexts like smart cities, tourism, and healthcare, the digitization of processes and services is based on a combination of many platforms, operating systems, and technologies. For instance, e-car navigation systems need to interact with the infrastructure of charging stations to plan a trip and schedule the stops required to recharge car batteries