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This research aims to demystify disruptive innovation phenomena and its economic and societal impacts. The study is investigative in nature and highlights the gap between the current endorsed disruptive innovation theory and the actual impacts of the phenomena as evident in markets, industries, and societies. The study adopts a positivism philosophical approach and deductive reasoning that builds on secondary data from literature across multiple disciplines that have a strong correlation with the research topic and case study analysis of five market-leading organizations that have significantly impacted their respective industries. The paper presents a comprehensive definition and a conceptual framework that provides an appropriate illustration of the term disruptive innovation based on the conceptual findings. The findings reveal that despite challenging mainstream incumbents, disruptive innovation yields positive impacts on economies, consumers and societies. The research concludes by advocating further research to empirically test the conceptual framework and validate it through primary data and assess its generalizability.

Changes in the global demographic structure in past years have resulted in different types of population aging. Along with the advance of medical technology, the improvement of public health, the extension of life expectancy, and the decrease in fertility rates, the global demographic structure is gradually aging. The aging speed is increasing in various countries, and domestic aging speed is fast and rush that how to effectively deal with various elderly care problems shows the urgency; otherwise, it would become troublesome when becoming a national, governmental, social, and family burden. Precautions are therefore essential and urgent; especially, elderly economic problems involving in living standards may have a burden on families. Taking the elderly in Taiwan as the questionnaire samples, a total 500 questionnaires were distributed. After excluding invalid and incomplete questionnaires, 367 copies were valid, with the retrieval rate of 73%. Based on the results we propose suggestions, assisting governmental sectors to implement welfare policies conforming to national benefits and taking care of elderly health and wellbeing to cope with the population aging trend. We also provide social and economic suggestions in the form of mature aged entrepreneurship as a driver od social innovation.

The purpose of this study is to examine the importance of social ties in encouraging innovative behaviour. There is limited empirical evidence of the interrelation between these two constructs in current academic literature. This research hypothesizes such relationship in higher academic institutions. To enhance innovativeness of academic staff within universities or R&D institutions, we examined the role of social ties in fostering innovativeness as a main factor in entrepreneurial activities. A survey was sent via a hyperlink to the target sample, facilitated by empirical analysis using correlation and regression analysis. It can be concluded that there is a significant relationship between spending time with social contacts and innovativeness. Limitations and further research are cited to enhance the understanding of the interrelation of the constructs.

Nearly a quarter of all global start-ups are founded by hybrid entrepreneurs, that is, individuals that engage in self-employment activity while simultaneously holding a primary job in wage or remuneration work. This study is the first of its kind to examine hybrid entrepreneurship in Australia using five pragmatic and embedded hybrid entrepreneur mini case studies. Aligning with human capital and skill variety theory, we adopted an interpretivist philosophical paradigm of emergent enquiry action and exploratory research. The paper explores characteristics and antecedents in the forms of the benefits and challenges associated with this increasingly prevalent form of entrepreneurship, including contextual and theoretical foundations. We provide policy and pragmatic research recommendations to enhance the development of this form of employment not only as a steppingstone to full-time self-employment but also as a driver of economic and social benefit to global societies. Furthermore, we provide inferences for future scientific studies within this domain.

As they grow, companies that were once characterised as agile, innovative and entrepreneurial, tend to become bureaucratic and slow to respond to changes in their environments. In order to stay competitive and build competitive advantage, managers realise that they have to rejuvenate the entrepreneurial spirit and innovate on a sustainable basis, yet this remains a significant challenge for them. Our corporate entrepreneurship and innovation course for post-graduate studentscultivates and understanding of entrepreneurship and innovation in the context of established business. Its unique design, which follows a logical progression of data collection in real-life participating organizations through secondary and primary research, assures in-depth understanding of the factors that shape the current organizational profiles. Students, working in teams, draw on this data and entrepreneurship and innovation theory to develop practical corporate entrepreneurship development plans which they present to their 'clients'. These plans reflect leadership orientation represented by entrepreneurial visions and strategies, as well as contextualised factors for control in the form of innovation processes and tools. Finally, teams recommend a range of tactics that foster supportive environments for entrepreneurship and innovation. In the process of doing so, students are themselves transformed from being traditional managers to becoming entrepreneurial managers.

Although Guanxi, political climate, and power are common business practices in the workplace, the popularity in research has yet to be intensified. This study aims to explore the effects of Guanxi, political climate, and power bases and the moderating effects of political climate. Questionnaires were issued to workers across service and manufacturing industries and 1099 valid responses were collected. The results from hierarchical regression analyses indicated significant relationships between Guanxi and power bases in various patterns. Significant relationships also emerged between political climate and power bases. Partial mediating effects of political climate were found between the relationships of Guanxi and power bases. Recommendations, suggestions, and conclusions were also presented on the basis of the empirical findings.