Strategic Innovation: Research Perspectives on Entrepreneurship and Resilience

This edited book focuses on strategic aspects of innovation in the context of resilience during and after a crisis. It investigates the strategies that firms utilize in order to cope with change especially in the competitive global marketplace. The book contends that, by design, entrepreneurship is strategic and innovative in every decision and action of a business. The goal of this book is to focus on the innovation and resilience behind these strategies in order to understand the business motivations. In particular, it focuses on the uncertainties initiated by the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights the growing research and practice experiences of resilient entrepreneurial businesses and innovations that continued to be stable and successful.

The book thus extends current research on strategic entrepreneurship by integrating it with the field of resilience. This will help to bridge the gap between practice and theory with regard to strategic entrepreneurship. Furthermore, it enables an effective advancement of strategic entrepreneurship research in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

João Leitão is an Associate Professor with habilitation, Director of the UBIExecutive Business School at the University of Beira Interior (UBI, Portugal), a Research Fellow at the NECE Research Center in Business Sciences at UBI and an Associate Researcher at the ICS (Instituto de Ciências Sociais), University of Lisbon (Portugal). He has a Ph.D. in economics from the UBI and a habilitation in technological change and entrepreneurship from the University of Lisbon (Portugal). He is a prolific author and series editor of the Springer book series Studies in Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics. He is also a member of the editorial boards of several journals such as Sustainability, International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing, Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais and Discover Sustainability.

Vanessa Ratten is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at La Trobe University (Australia). She is the Program Director of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation subjects and teaches Corporate Venturing and Managing Innovation. She has published seven sole authored books including Sport Entrepreneurship: Developing and Sustaining an Entrepreneurial Sports Culture (Springer). She has also edited more than twenty books including Entrepreneurship and the Community: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Creativity, Social Challenges, and Business (Springer).