Competencies and Capabilities as Determinants of Digital Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Validation

This study aims to examine the influence of digital competencies and awareness of digital capabilities on digital entrepreneurial drive in the pre-startup stages of hi-tech businesses. Based on primary data from a sample of 357 respondents, we tested the hypothesized relationships for direct and interactive effects on digital entrepreneurial drive. Our results show that digital competencies and awareness of digital capabilities influence entrepreneurial aspiration and commitment in the pre-startup phase. We use the digital entrepreneurship framework by Recker and von Briel (2019) as the theoretical foundation and demonstrate a novel approach to expand the dimensions of digital enabler, digital outcome, and digital context for further research. We provide unique insights to researchers and practitioners of digital entrepreneurship regarding conceptualizing digital capabilities along with digital competencies. In addition to possessing digital competencies, budding entrepreneurs need to develop a keen awareness of digital capabilities to understand the changing dynamics of the entrepreneurial landscape

The COVID-19 pandemic and international students: A mixed-methods approach to relationships between social media use, social support, and mental health

The COVID-19 pandemic and international students: A mixed-methods approach to relationships between social media use, social support, and mental healthThe COVID-19 pandemic has added significant stress to international students in the U.S. who already facemyriad challenges in adjusting to their host country. We used a mixed-method approach combining surveyand interview research involving international students enrolled in undergraduate or graduate programs at aU.S. university to analyze how their social media use and perceived social support and social adjustmentare associated with their sense of mental well-being when taking into account demographic and socialpsychological characteristics. Our findings show that international students spent an increased amount oftime on social media during the pandemic for both networking and information seeking purposes. Thosewho use social media primarily for networking purposes reported better mental health, whereas socialmedia use for information seeking was not significantly associated with their mental health. Social supportwas an important predictor of international students’ social media use. This study provides scholarly andpolicy implications for supporting international students during a public health crisis