TY - GEN
T1 - Digital Entrepreneurship in Business Enterprises
T2 - 19th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, I3E 2020
AU - Anim-Yeboah, Samuel
AU - Boateng, Richard
AU - Awuni Kolog, Emmanuel
AU - Owusu, Acheampong
AU - Bedi, Ibrahim
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This study systematically reviews extant contemporary literature on digital entrepreneurship in peer-reviewed journal articles over six years (2013–2018) from six journal databases. It involved a systematic literature review of 101 papers from 53 journals focusing on the publication outlets, yearly trends, themes, and associated theoretical and conceptual approaches, methodologies, sources and geographical distribution of digital entrepreneurship research. The findings suggest that extant literature mostly lacked sound theoretical underpinnings. More work adopting appropriate and proven theoretical approaches is needed. Most of the reviewed papers also focused mainly on issues relating to the technology itself than those relating to the enterprise or the entrepreneur. The capabilities and capacities of enterprises, as well as the strategies in implementing digital technologies and harnessing the opportunities of digitalization, are key issues that have not hitherto received much attention. The study contributes to the understanding of the conceptualization of the digital entrepreneurship phenomenon. Future research should consolidate the understanding of the field, with models and frameworks that recognize digital entrepreneurship as an academic research field in its own right, and also consider the impact of enterprise capabilities and capacities on digital entrepreneurship.
AB - This study systematically reviews extant contemporary literature on digital entrepreneurship in peer-reviewed journal articles over six years (2013–2018) from six journal databases. It involved a systematic literature review of 101 papers from 53 journals focusing on the publication outlets, yearly trends, themes, and associated theoretical and conceptual approaches, methodologies, sources and geographical distribution of digital entrepreneurship research. The findings suggest that extant literature mostly lacked sound theoretical underpinnings. More work adopting appropriate and proven theoretical approaches is needed. Most of the reviewed papers also focused mainly on issues relating to the technology itself than those relating to the enterprise or the entrepreneur. The capabilities and capacities of enterprises, as well as the strategies in implementing digital technologies and harnessing the opportunities of digitalization, are key issues that have not hitherto received much attention. The study contributes to the understanding of the conceptualization of the digital entrepreneurship phenomenon. Future research should consolidate the understanding of the field, with models and frameworks that recognize digital entrepreneurship as an academic research field in its own right, and also consider the impact of enterprise capabilities and capacities on digital entrepreneurship.
KW - Business enterprise
KW - Digital entrepreneurship
KW - Digital technology
KW - Systematic review
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85084935078&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-44999-5_16
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-44999-5_16
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85084935078
SN - 9783030449988
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 192
EP - 203
BT - Responsible Design, Implementation and Use of Information and Communication Technology - 19th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, I3E 2020, Proceedings
A2 - Hattingh, Marié
A2 - Matthee, Machdel
A2 - Smuts, Hanlie
A2 - Pappas, Ilias
A2 - Dwivedi, Yogesh K.
A2 - Mäntymäki, Matti
PB - Springer
Y2 - 6 April 2020 through 8 April 2020
ER -