2019, Hinz, Andreas, Eisenbart, Barbara, Belgiawan, Prawira Fajarindra, Mayangsari, Lidia, Wasesa, Meditya, Windasari, Nila Armelia, Wulansari, Amilia, Aprianingsih, Atik, Aprilianty, Fitri

Accelerated progress in digitalization calls for more entrepreneurial thinking and venturing in an uncertain and fast changing environment. This applies not only to startups but also to established companies. In both cases, entrepreneurial thinking and behavior helps to develop future business opportunities with benefits for new products and business model innovation. Entrepreneurial teachings such as effectuation and the lean startup methodology have significantly improved the tool kit for entrepreneurs in recent years. This paper seeks to combine these two research streams in order to examine how additional insights can be gained in practice at the example of an integrated e-healthcare system in Switzerland. In times of ageing societies where rising health care costs are met by limited resources, digitalized processes can reap significant benefits. Developing digitalized diagnostic solutions – with the help of entrepreneurial effectuation and the lean startup methodology – will enable cost-efficient hom

2011, Schrettle, Stefan, Hinz, Andreas, Scherrer-Rathje, Maike, Friedli, Tom

This research seeks to shed more light on the drivers of sustainability that firms are exposed to and their impact on management decisions. We have identified three essential paths of action how firms can react to the sustainability challenge. First, firms reassess their manufacturing technologies. Firms have to identify, evaluate and adopt greener technology options which focus on energy and material efficiency in manufacturing processes. Second, new, eco-friendly products are launched. Third, firms extend green practices from the plant out into the supply chain which is referred to as green supply chain practices (GSCP). In order to understand how manufacturing units are affected by the sustainability challenge, exogenous and endogenous factors are analyzed, which drive a firms' sustainability efforts. Exogenous factors include government regulation, norms and values in society as well as the market forces such as customers, competitors and suppliers. Endogenous factors include a firm's strategy, culture and resources at hand in order to deal with sustainability. Therefore, it is the goal of this work to guide firms' management decisions to address the sustainability challenge.

2018, Hinz, Andreas, Philippi, Stefan

Exploring causal relationships between self-efficacy and effectuation can provide valuable insights into entrepreneurial behaviour. Antecedents of entrepreneurial self-efficacy are examined including performance accomplishments, vicarious experience, means and entrepreneurial experience. Different effectual behaviours such as forming partnerships, exploiting contingencies, addressing affordable loss and using experimentation are studied. Based on earlier work on the subject, this article reviews self-efficacy and effectuation as well as a conceptual model that links these two concepts. The reviewed model highlights the impact of the antecedents of entrepreneurial self-efficacy as well as the impact of entrepreneurial self-efficacy on effectual behaviours. Going beyond the conceptual nature of earlier work, this article presents empirical findings in order to contribute to the discussion and build understanding of the matter. Semi-structured interviews with ten entrepreneurs were conducted in five countries ac

2011, Skorna, Alexander, Bode, Christoph, Hinz, Andreas

Die steigende Komplexität der Transport- und Logistikprozesse führt zu einer Vielzahl von Risiken und Gefahren bei den Transportakteuren und Versicherungen. Die global verteilten Produktions- und Absatzmärkte sind eine Ursache, dass immer mehr und höherwertigere Güter in weltumspannenden Logistiknetzwerken transportiert werden. Aufgrund des steigenden Wettbewerbsdrucks unter den Logistikdienstleistern bündeln diese vermehrt Transporte zu grösseren Transporteinheiten und lagern zeitunkritische Sendungen teilweise zwischen. Dies erhöht für die Versicherungen das Risiko von Kumulschäden und kann bei grösseren Schäden beim Warenempfänger für Lieferengpässe bzw. zu Betriebsunterbrüchen führen. Gleichzeitig sind detaillierte Informationen über den Zustand von Waren und ihrer Integrität innerhalb der Lieferkette nicht durchgehend vorhanden und die genauen Bedingungen während des Transports bleiben intransparent. Sensor-Telematik-Systeme werden heute bereits von führenden Logistikdienstleistern und Frachtführern z.B. auf ausgesuchten Routen oder für hochwertige Waren eingesetzt. Durch diese Entwicklungen werden ebenso Risiken sowohl für den Transportversicherer als auch für die Transportakteure identifizier- und messbar, was die Grundlage von effektiven präventiven, schadensmindernden Massnahmen bildet. Der Technologieeinsatz mündet in ein situativ an die jeweiligen Transportcharakteristika angepasstes Risikomanagement. Welche Einflüsse, Potentiale sowie Risiken aus dem Technologieeinsatz im Transportbereich erwachsen, soll im Rahmen des vorliegenden Beitrags diskutiert werden. Vor diesem Hintergrund analysiert dieser Beitrag das Schadenreduktionspotential eines Einsatzes von Sensor-Telematik-Systemen im Trans-portbereich in drei Schritten: (1) Zur Identifikation der aktuellen Problemstellungen und Transportrisiken im globalen Warenverkehr werden die Kernergebnisse einer Schadendatenanalyse bei einer der führenden europäischen Transportversicherung vorgestellt. (2) Im Anschluss werden die Ergebnisse der quantitativen Schadendatenanalyse anhand von 25 Experteninterviews weiter verdichtet und verallgemeinert. (3) Den Abschluss der Untersuchung bildet die Zusammenstellung der quantitativ-qualitativ erhobenen Ergebnisse und Ableitung der Wirkungspotentiale von Sensor-Telematik-Systemen zur Prävention von Transportschäden.

2016, Hinz, Andreas

Entrepreneurial behaviour is increasingly becoming a major area of research. The literature review on entrepreneurial behaviour in this article suggests that entrepreneurial self-efficacy and effectuation are important research streams and that linkages between them can provide valuable insights. To build understanding on the matter, this article examines the antecedents of entrepreneurial self-efficacy such as performance accomplishments, vicarious experience, means and entrepreneurial experience. Further, the article assesses effectual behaviours such as forming partnerships, exploiting contingencies, addressing affordable loss and using experimentation. A conceptual model is constructed in order to illustrate relationships between these two research streams. The model demonstrates the impact of the antecedents of entrepreneurial self-efficacy as well as the impact of entrepreneurial self-efficacy on effectual behaviours. Especially the latter impact has not received much attention in the literature so far. Based on this discussion, research propositions are derived to inform further research.