Author, Institution: Rima Sermontytė-Baniulė, Kaunas University of Technology
Science area, field of science: Social Sciences, Management, S003
Research Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Asta Pundzienė (Kaunas University of Technology, Social Sciences, Management, S003)
Dissertation Defence Board of Management Science Field:
Prof. Dr. Lina Dagilienė (Kaunas University of Technology, Social Sciences, Management, S003) – chairperson
Prof. Dr. Žaneta Gravelines (Kaunas University of Technology, Social Sciences, Management, S003)
Prof. Dr. Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen (Oulu Business School, Finland, Social Sciences, Management, S003)
Prof. Dr. Jelena Stankevičienė (Vilnius University, Social Sciences, Economics, S004)
Prof. Dr. Mantas Vilkas (Kaunas University of Technology, Social Sciences, Management, S003)
Dissertation defence meeting will be at Rectorate Hall of Kaunas University of Technology (K. Donelaičio 73-402, Kaunas)
The doctoral dissertation is available at the library of Kaunas University of Technology (Gedimino 50, Kaunas) and on the internet: R. Sermontytė-Baniulė el. dissertation.pdf
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Annotation: This dissertation is based on four scientific publications examining digital healthcare. It investigates how the entrepreneurial mindset, dynamic capabilities, and open innovation enhance digital healthcare performance, understood as the improvement of clinical, economic, and experiential outcomes, as well as the competitiveness of digital health start-ups. The main research question explores how these managerial constructs contribute to enhanced digital healthcare performance. The first publication shows that start-up success depends on complementary configurations of entrepreneurial decisions, including funding, technology, and business model choices. The second reveals that founders’ experience and education increase managerial effectiveness, which strengthens start-up performance in conditions of dynamic competition. The third demonstrates that stronger dynamic capabilities are associated with more advanced digital healthcare performance. The fourth shows that open innovation has an indirect effect on clinical and economic outcomes by improving patient and healthcare professional experience. The dissertation integrates these findings and proposes a conceptual model for future research, emphasizing that enhanced digital healthcare performance is achieved not through isolated initiatives but through the alignment of entrepreneurial decision-making, organizational dynamic capabilities, and strategically applied open innovation practices.