Digital entrepreneurship

Abstract

Purpose Digital entrepreneurship is of high topicality as technological developments and advances in infrastructure create various opportunities for entrepreneurs. Society’s great attention to new digital business models is opposed to very little research regarding opportunities, challenges and success factors of digital entrepreneurship. The purpose of this paper is to gather the state-of-the-art literature on digital entrepreneurship and to provide an up-to-date compilation of key topics and methods discussed in the relevant literature. Furthermore, based on findings of the systematic literature review, a research map pointing at further research opportunities for scholars working in the field will be proposed. Design/methodology/approach Utilising a systematic search and review of literature across the domain whilst following the established methodology of Tranfield et al. (2003) combined with the application of a quality threshold for journal selection, 35 articles on digital entrepreneurship could be found relevant for an evidence-informed literature review. Findings Based on a conceptual literature review, six streams of research that deal with digital entrepreneurship are identified and discussed: digital business models; digital entrepreneurship process; platform strategies; digital ecosystem; entrepreneurship education; and social digital entrepreneurship. Originality/value This systematic literature review identifies current research paths on digital entrepreneurship by structuring the dispersed status quo of research in the identified different areas. In addition, future research opportunities to deepen the understanding of digital entrepreneurship are highlighted and pictured in a research map.

Investigating the process of entrepreneurial team member exits: a systematic review and future research directions

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“…For the search itself, we primarily scanned the Web of Science Core Collection supplemented by Business Source Premier via EBSCO Host. To guarantee a certain level of quality, we focused on peer-reviewed journal articles (Bouncken et al 2015;Kraus et al 2018). Additionally, we employed Google Scholar's full text search and compared the findings to the previous search results to check if the rigidity of the previous search led to the exclusion of relevant peer-reviewed papers (Wang and Chugh 2014;de Mol et al 2015).…”

“…We also want to point out that the inclusion and exclusion of articles and the coding procedure can be affected by the researchers' subjectivity, where other authors might have come to different conclusions (Bouncken et al 2015;Kraus et al 2018). To tackle the subjectivity, we conducted an independent search strategy involving two authors and the subsequent discussion of the included and excluded articles as part of a presentation in front of other colleagues.…”

Entrepreneurial identity development through digital media

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“…However, the way in which entrepreneurs use social media and what that means for the processes and practices of entrepreneurial development and their outcomes is underreasearched and under-theorised (Achtenhagen, 2017;Giones & Brem, 2017;Horst & Murschetz, 2019;Kraus et al, 2019;Martinez Dy et al, 2018;Nambisan, 2018;Shen et al, 2018). This is evident in recent calls to bring mainstream entrepreurship and predominantly industry-focused research on media entrepreneurship closer together to advance theorybuilding (Achtenhagen, 2017) and, in turn, create new theoretical constructs that enable capturing and investigating interdisciplinary topics (Horst & Murschetz, 2019).…”