Digital Entrepreneurship

Toward a Digital Technology Perspective of Entrepreneurship

Bibliographic Data

ID23360978
AuthorsSatish Nambisan (0000-0001-9375-5223, Satish Nambisan is a professor of entrepreneurship & technology management at Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA., corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume41
Issue6
Pages1029-1055
Publication date2017-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEntrepreneurship Theory and Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1042-2587 • E-ISSN: 1540-6520
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1111/etap.12254
OpenAlexW2530432988
LanguageEN
Citations received271
References cited87

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.

Agency (philosophy) · Business · Entrepreneurship · Intersection (aeronautics) · Knowledge management · Perspective (graphical) · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Computer Science · Engineering · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development · Marketing