“…Since its conceptualisation from a European Union (EU) project , DBE has gained popularity in many disciplines such as information systems (IS) (e.g., Graça & Camarinha-Matos, 2017;Senyo, Liu, Sun, & Effah, 2016;Tsatsou, Elaluf-calderwood, & Liebenau, 2010), general management (e.g., Koch and Windsperger, 2017), tourism (e.g., Del Chiappa & Baggio, 2015) and computer science (e.g., Hussain, Chang, Hussain, & Dillon, 2007a). In practice, DBE has also gained increasing attention (Gartner, 2015) as organisations strive to leverage external resources to meet growing customer needs.…”