Digital Entrepreneurship in Business Enterprises: A Systematic Review

Anim-Yeboah, Samuel; Boateng, Richard; Kolog, Emmanuel Awuni; Owusu, Acheampong; Bedi, Ibrahim

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-44999-5_16

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“…Gonzalez et al [99] in their research have used some of these theories to identify a wide range of technologies and explore how they can be applied to transform SMEs and lifestyles is SA. These theories confirm that embracing the digital revolution engrained in the proliferation of industryspecific applications as a complex business challenge, is no longer an option but a necessity especially in SA [86,[98][99][100].…”

Section: Innovative Sustainable and Digital Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 76%

“…Addressing these issues as a recipe for delivering the identified SDGs, especially the alleviation of poverty and equality [2][3][4], demanded a research-driven and integrated, contextualised interdisciplinary and systematic approach [93,97], [110,111]. Successful food production and food consumption entrepreneurship can therefore be achieved by effectively integrating with contextualised research, digital technologies, capacity building leading towards innovative and sustainable business development and related practices [72,73,100,105]. Based on these arguments and propositions, a conceptual model (Figure 4) is developed and proposed to facilitate a unique, innovative, and creative sustainable community, human and economic development intervention designed to bridge the development gap between privileged marginalised communities in SA.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is a disturbing trend [39]. The wholesale importation of technologies with limited capacity for effective adaptation to meet the needs of local businesses is a major trend creating a big problem for SA in privileged communities, let alone in marginalised and ghettoised communities [85,100]. While theoretical studies on digital entrepreneurship are documented [83,101,106], specific micro-entrepreneurship theories in marginalised communities in SA have yet to be fully developed.…”

Section: Innovative Sustainable and Digital Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The model, therefore, emphasises engagement with all the stakeholders at the grassroots level in a customised manner as recommended by scholars [88], including political activists [87] and proponents of development [9,43,64,86]. The model integrates food production and consumption, innovative digital entrepreneurship [39,100], and businesses development and management to address the established SDGs associated with the vulnerable and marginalised communities. Designed to bridge the inequality and development gaps between privileged and marginalised societies, this model is pertinent, especially for developing countries such as SA.…”

Section: Synthesis Of the Literature Reviewed Findingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Innovative and Sustainable Food Production and Food Consumption Entrepreneurship: A Conceptual Recipe for Delivering Development Success in South Africa

Samkange

Ramkissoon

Chipumuro³

et al. 2021

Sustainability

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Innovative food production and food consumption entrepreneurship can be viewed as a recipe for delivering sustainable development goals to promote economic, human, and community growth among vulnerable and marginalised communities in South Africa (SA). This study critically analyses the trends and related issues perpetuating the development gap between privileged and marginalised communities in SA. It explores the link between innovative food production and food consumption entrepreneurship and underdevelopment based on sustainable development goals (SDGs). The study also generates a conceptual model designed to bridge the development gap between privileged and marginalised communities in SA. Philosophically, an interpretivism research paradigm based on the socialised interpretation of extant literature is pursued. Consistent with this stance, an inductive approach and qualitative methodological choices are applied using a combination of thematic analysis and grounded theory to generate research data. Grounded theory techniques determine the extent to which the literature review readings are simultaneously pursued, analysed, and conceptualised to generate the conceptual model. Research findings highlight the perpetual inequality in land distribution, economic and employability status, social mobility, gender equity, education, emancipation, empowerment, and quality of life between privileged and marginalised societies in SA. Underdevelopment issues such as poverty, unemployment, hunger, criminal activities, therefore, characterise marginalised communities and are linked to SDGs. Arguably, food production and food consumption entrepreneurship are ideally positioned to address underdevelopment by creating job opportunities, generating income, transforming the economic status, social mobility, and quality of life. Although such entrepreneurship development initiatives in SA are acknowledged, their impact remains insignificant because the interventions are traditionally prescriptive, fragmented, linear, and foreign-driven. A robust, contextualised, integrated, and transformative approach is developed based on the conceptual model designed to create a sustainable, innovative, and digital entrepreneurship development plan that will be executed to yield employment, generate income and address poverty, hunger, gender inequity. To bridge the gap between privileged and marginalised societies. The conceptual model will be used to bridge the perpetual development gap between privileged and marginalised societies. In SA is generated. Recommended future research directions include implementing, testing, and validating the model from a practical perspective through a specific project within selected marginalised communities.

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Section: Innovative Sustainable and Digital Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 76%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Innovative Sustainable and Digital Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Synthesis Of the Literature Reviewed Findingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Innovative and Sustainable Food Production and Food Consumption Entrepreneurship: A Conceptual Recipe for Delivering Development Success in South Africa

Samkange

Ramkissoon

Chipumuro³

et al. 2021

Sustainability

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“…Digital technologies are transforming small and large organizations (Li et al , 2018). They are transforming the everyday work, as well as behavior and capabilities of individuals (Andriole, 2017 Anim-Yeboah et al , 2020). Every aspect of the organization of work is affected by this transformation (Lee, 2016; Neirotti et al , 2019).…”

Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

The digital transformation of entrepreneurial work

Corvello

Carolis

Verteramo

et al. 2021

IJEBR

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PurposeThis paper explores digital transformation's impact on the work of owners in entrepreneurial firms. The interplay between working practices and technology is analyzed, taking into account the organizations' specific contexts.Design/methodology/approachA multiple case study design was applied. Eight cases of entrepreneurial firms, defined as companies that bring new products and services to the market by creating and seizing opportunities, were selected, with the goal to maximize the diversity of cases. The sample includes both small- and medium-sized firms, as well as high- tech and low- tech companies in equal number. Interviews have been used to collect both quantitative and qualitative data, which was analyzed in a structured way.FindingsThe digital transformation of entrepreneurial work, that is the daily work of entrepreneurs, is an evolutionary, practice-based phenomenon, rather than the result of rational design. The use of different digital tools is interrelated and depends on the characteristics, and dynamics of the surrounding environment.Practical implicationsThe findings of this study are relevant to entrepreneurs interested in understanding the dynamics of their working practice, to software development firms interested in entrepreneurs as customers and to institutions interested in the education of entrepreneurs.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors' knowledge this is the first study which considers the interplay between digital technology and the daily activities of entrepreneurs, considered as a whole. It provides insights on how these interconnected dimensions evolve, thus contributing to understanding the work of entrepreneurs, and as a consequence the dynamics of entrepreneurial firms in the context of digital transformation of organizations.

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