Guest editorial: Sustainable creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship: concerning failures and resilience in hard times, difficult conditions and special communities

After a committed co-creation process together by the authors, reviewers, editors, editorial staffs as a collective of special community orchestrated during this combo of hard time and difficult conditions of the global popularity of COVID-19 pandemic, we now have eight quality papers that have survived through the scientific failure and academic resilience checks. Creativity Innovation Entrepreneurship Hard times Traumatic experience through emotional creativity (Schiavone) Clustering over-guarantee behaviors → Financial distress (Xu and Wu) Institutional environment x Government digitalization → Tech entrepreneurship (Jiao et al.) Difficult conditions Leader–employee congruence → Creativity goal and innovation performance (Yuan et al.) High-performance work practices → Resilience (Aparna and Sahney) Industrial evolution → Executive departure (Li and Feng) Special communities Entrepreneurial failure in pandemic → Ambidexterity (Semerci) Top management team (TMT) decision-making → Mgt. innovation adoption (Li et al.) Entrepreneur narcissism → Venture growth (Wang et al.) Schiavone's paper perfectly researched emotional creativity and resilience of cancer survivors in the hard time of COVID-19 pandemic. Aparna and Sahney examined how R&D organizations' creativity-oriented high-performance work practices (CHPWPs) could facilitate resilience against difficult conditions, knowing the core value creation of R&D organizations rely heavily on innovations. [...]the effect of role clarity as a moderator has also been verified. In this study, the authors argue that different dimensions of institutional environment (e.g. culture or intellectual property right protection) affect technoentrepreneurship in different ways. [...]government digitalization moderates in the differentiated relationships above.