This authoritative Handbook compiles a diverse set of contributions on digital entrepreneurship, providing an in-depth study of how digital entrepreneurship research has evolved over the years, and where it stands today.
Offering a snapshot of the major themes in digital entrepreneurship research, the Handbook highlights a wide range of both practice-engaged and practice-relevant works and explores the fundamental concepts and common themes in the field. Chapters examine key topics including the digital platform economy, the digitalization of work, the blockchain economy, and the rural–urban digital divide. The Handbook further analyzes the history and theory of digital entrepreneurship, while also sparking ideas for future research through a consideration of emerging phenomena and new ways to approach research in this broad area of study.
Discussing a diverse set of questions, contexts, theories, and methods, this Handbook will be a key resource for researchers and advanced students with a particular interest in entrepreneurship, innovation, technology management, and digital business models. Managers and entrepreneurs will also find the discussion of digital entrepreneurship in relation to financing, social issues, and technology beneficial.
Author(s): Mohammad Keyhani, Tobias Kollmann, Andishe Ashjari, Alina Sorgner, Clyde Hull
Series: Research Handbooks in Business and Management
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 339
City: Cheltenham
Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
PART I INTRODUCTION
1. An introduction to digital entrepreneurship: concepts and themes
PART II DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DEFINITIONS
2. What is digital entrepreneurship? Fundamentals of company founding in the digital economy
3. Eras of digital entrepreneurship: connecting the past, present, and future
4. Exploring the field of digital entrepreneurship: a bibliometric analysis
PART III DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ECOSYSTEMS
5. Measuring the digital platform economy
6. The regional impacts of digitalization of work on entrepreneurship in the United States
PART IV DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP TECHNOLOGIES
7. Startup stacks: understanding the new landscape of digital entrepreneurship technology
8. Digital product-assisted learning: transforming entrepreneurial learning with product usage analytics
PART V DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ADOPTION AND OUTCOMES
9. Punching above their weight class: assessing how digital technologies enhance new and small firm survival and competitiveness
10. Digital adoption in micro and small enterprise clusters: a dependency theory study in Kenya
PART VI DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND FINANCING
11. Crowdfunding: a competency framework for creators
12. Backers: consumers or investors? Crowdfunding vs. traditional financing as an optimal security design problem
13. Blockchain economy: the challenges and opportunities of initial coin offerings
PART VII DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SOCIAL ISSUES
14. Agentifying the body algorithmic: digital entrepreneurial agency and accountability gaps
15. Digital entrepreneurship in a rural context: the implications of the rural–urban digital divide
16. Data are the fuel for digital entrepreneurship—but what about data privacy?
Index
