Start-up Cultures in Times of Global Crises

Prof. Dr. Arie Hans Verkuil is a theologian and holds a doctorate in business ethics from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He has a postgraduate degree in nonprofit management from the Institute for Association, Foundation and Cooperative Management (VMI) at the University of Fribourg, and Swiss Postgraduate Studies in Human Resource Management (SNP). He is a lecturer in management, mindful leadership, and ethics at the School of Business, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, and heads the Institute of Management there. He was a strategic advisor to the Swiss Federal Administration for many years. He is a member of various international scientific advisory boards and reviewer for international conferences and scientific publications.

• Part 1: Fundamentals of Sustainability and Start-up Innovations .- Challenges for start-ups and SME in the 21st century (Arie Verkuil, Maurizio Castiglione) .- Improving sustainability and other motivations of founding a start-up (Uta Milow, Arie Verkuil) .- Resilience patterns for start-ups – tools and methods (Christoph Steinebach).- Subscribe to Happiness - How a subscription business model can support customer retention and customer life-time value (Barbara Eisenbart) .- SMEs talk – startups walk - How startups can benefit from the use of a digital maturity model for international distributed work (Barbara Eisenbart, Patrick Klotz) .- Migrant entrepreneurs in Switzerland – not very different from native entrepreneurs (Dario Meyer, Rolf Meyer) .- Part 2: Start-ups approaches from an international perspective .- Sustainable Entrepreneurship – a Cross-Country Comparison (Rolf Dieter Reineke, Olliver Gottschall) -- Emigration and Start-up Setting. Russian and Ukrainian Intelligentia to New Shores. (Volker Schulte, Andreas Hinz) .- The Role of Public Funding Agencies for Startup Promotion – an International Comparison (Volker Schulte) .- Model and Measures of Franchise Firms’ Performance: A Framework for Enhancing Franchises Business Success (Adams Adeiza, Noor Azizi Ismail, Roselina Ahmad Saufi, Marina Arnaut, Malaysia) .- Why are there only few innovations in Vietnamese start-ups and SMEs? (Truong Minh Chuong (Vietnam) .- How effective is direct storytelling in enhancing entrepreneurial motivation for visually impaired people? An experimental study (Leo Aldianto, Grisna Anggadwita, Anggraeni Permatasari, Indonesia) .- Urban Farming Startups in the German Capital Region - Mindsets, Structures and Effects, (Thomas Thiessen, Gerrit Neuhaus).