Acknowledgment
We acknowledgment all the companies and interview partners who participated voluntarily and contributed to this inclusive research. A special thanks to my two esteemed supervisors for their valuable support and their brilliant network and to the universities, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL) and Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, THM - University of Applied Sciences, which are an important basis for this international, inclusive research.
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