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Albina Komysheva

Academic Staff

Albina Komysheva,M.A.

Room:
R09 R04 H38
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Chair of Sustainability and Innovation in Digital Ecosystems
Rhine-Ruhr Institute of Information Systems
Faculty of Computer Science
University of Duisburg-Essen
Universitätsstraße 9
45151 Essen

Fields of Research:

  • Digital Resilience
  • Digital Ecosystems
  • Data and Value Creation
  • Digital Entrepreneurship

Publications:

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  • Komysheva, Albina; Rothe, Hannes; Wessel, Lauri: Entrepreneurial Digital Resilience in War: Lessons from Ukrainian SMEs. In: Proceedings of the 59th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Maui, Hawaii, USA, 2026. PDFDetailsFull textCitation

    Limited IS research is available on how SMEs achieve digital resilience in the context of major geopolitical shocks. Other than large organizations, SMEs typically lack the resources to quickly produce capabilities to resist and recover. At the same time, entrepreneurial bricolage teaches us that such organizations are used to improvisation with resources-at-hand. We turn to a study of Ukrainian entrepreneurs during the ongoing war through the lens of bricolage for the creation of digital resilience. Our interviews with Ukrainian SME founders reveal that entrepreneurs actively repurpose and recombine existing digital tools, infrastructures, and platforms to maintain operations, ensure remote work, and reconfigure business models. Our study contributes to the digital resilience literatureby highlighting how resilience emerges through cumulative learning, cognitive framing, and entrepreneurial improvisation, offering new insights into managing SMEs under extreme conditions.