Digital Entrepreneurship: Toward a Digital Technology Perspective of Entrepreneurship

New digital technologies have transformed the nature of uncertainty inherent in entrepreneurial processes and outcomes as well as the ways of dealing with such uncertainty. This has raised important questions at the intersection of digital technologies and entrepreneurship—on digital entrepreneurshi...

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Published inEntrepreneurship theory and practice Vol. 41; no. 6; pp. 1029 - 1055
Main Author Nambisan, Satish
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.11.2017
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Digital technology
Digitization
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
Technological change
Technology
Uncertainty
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Summary:New digital technologies have transformed the nature of uncertainty inherent in entrepreneurial processes and outcomes as well as the ways of dealing with such uncertainty. This has raised important questions at the intersection of digital technologies and entrepreneurship—on digital entrepreneurship. We consider two broad implications—less bounded entrepreneurial processes and outcomes and less predefined locus of entrepreneurial agency—and advance a research agenda that calls for the explicit theorizing of concepts related to digital technologies. In articulating the promise and value of such a digital technology perspective, we consider how it would build on and enrich existing entrepreneurship theories.
ISSN:1042-2587
1540-6520
DOI:10.1111/etap.12254