Digital Entrepreneurship in the Last Decade: A Systematic Review

The objective of this paper is to investigate the effects ICT has on the sustainability of Digital Entrepreneurship in Nigeria.  Furthermore, this paper seeks to determine if the utilization of ICT can forecast the rate of start-ups in the Digital Entrepreneurship sector and interrogate the characteristics and inter-relationships inherent in Digital Entrepreneurship.   To achieve this objective, a systematic literature review using the Systematic Quantitative Assessment Technique (SQAT) was the methodology used to review 45 DE articles published over the last decade (2012 – 2021).   To provide a thorough, impartial amalgam of the reviewed articles, this paper analysed the time distribution, geographic distribution, types and data collection methods of the 45 DE articles.  The review revealed that existing research has been both empirical and conceptual in equal measure with only one instance in mixed mode.  The parity suggests that future researchers should endeavour to conduct more conceptual research to underpin the envisaged accelerated growth of DE

The future of digital entrepreneurship research: existing and emerging opportunities: professional development workshop

Digital entrepreneurship — the intersection of digital technologies and entrepreneurship — is gaining increasing importance in the global economy and scholarly community. This PDW set out to establish a community platform for and shared understanding amongst information systems researchers who are interested in shaping the future of digital entrepreneurship research within and beyond the discipline’s boundaries. The simple framework presented in this short paper represents the first step of this endeavor and served as the foundation to structure thinking and discussions at the PDW. The framework identifies three fundamental dimensions of the digital entrepreneurship phenomenon — digital technologies as enablers, outcomes, or contexts of entrepreneurship processes — that form distinct sub-themes of digital entrepreneurship research and illustrates potential research topics that flow from each of them and their intersections

Researching Digital Entrepreneurship: Current Issues and Suggestions for Future Directions

This report documents the outcomes of a professional development workshop (PDW) held at the 40th International Conference on Information Systems in Munich, Germany. The workshop focused on identifying how information systems (IS) researchers can contribute to enriching our knowledge about digital entrepreneurship—that is, the point at which digital technologies and entrepreneurship intersect. The PDW assembled numerous IS researchers working on different aspects of digital entrepreneurship. Jointly, we delineated digital entrepreneurship from related phenomena and conceptualized the different roles that digital technologies can have in entrepreneurial endeavors. We also identified relevant strategies, opportunities, and challenges in conducting digital entrepreneurship research. This report summarizes the shared views that emerged from the interactions at the PDW and our collaborative effort to write this report. The report provides IS researchers interested in digital entrepreneurship with food for thought and a foundation for future research

Extending digital ventures through templating

Digital ventures typically face significant growth expectations. A common response is to extend the current operations into new areas through repurposing its digital core (e.g., search engine, data mining technique, platform, or voice interface). Grounded in prior literature, we surmise that the high versatility of the digital venture’s digital core facilitates such an extension by reducing cost and increasing speed. However, we know little about the process by which digital ventures draw on their digital core to extend current operations. To this end, we use Penrose’s work to analyze a two-year in-depth case study of a Chinese digital venture’s extension of its initial operations based on its credit rating technology. Our findings suggest that digital venture extension is facilitated by templating, which is a digitally enabled process of generating and using generic solutions across business areas. Through our grounded analysis, we unpack templating by tracing three processes contributing to digital venture extension: concepting, generalizing, and porting. Synthesizing our findings, we contribute to the emerging digital innovation and entrepreneurship literature by developing a process model of digital venture extension

Organising digital innovation in ERP platforms

Recently, established enterprise technology vendors (such as Oracle and SAP) have been remaking their enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems as ‘platforms’ that herald in new technologies capable of transforming mainstream organising logics and, apparently, making organisations ‘intelligent.’ However, scholars studying digital platforms are yet to capture this change. The literature has discussed how digital platforms are transforming the way organisations innovate and compete but, thus far, studies have developed a rather partial understanding of digital platforms and their role in digital innovation. The bulk of the literature seems to focus mostly on consumer-oriented platforms (e.g., Apple and Google) in business-to-consumer (B2C) markets, thus leaving the important nuances of innovation dynamics surrounding the building of enterprise platforms unexplored as well as their potential for reshaping organisations. Combining Information Systems (IS) perspective with insights from Science and Technology Studies (STS), this thesis offers a sociotechnical, longitudinal, multi-perspective and multi-spatial approach, which contrasts with the narrow, snapshot studies that portray digital innovation as a technology-oriented phenomenon from a singular vantage point in time and space. Drawing on qualitative data, the research includes three empirical studies, each with a different perspective – the digital platform, the platform ecosystem and the platform markets – that depict struggles, asymmetries and challenges in the relationship between a global ERP vendor and multiple actors participating in innovation development and adoption. Together, these studies present a deeper understanding of how a major digital innovation emerges and unfolds and what complexities are involved in this trajectory; how third-party innovation is orchestrated and what processes and mechanisms constitute this orchestration; and how innovation visions are created and shaped, highlighting details of the sociotechnical arrangements that connect actors, processes and artefacts towards innovation adoption. Answering demands for a holistic approach in digital platform studies, this thesis’ main contribution is to articulate a comprehensive view of how digital innovation is organised in ERP platforms. This research enhances digital innovation knowledge in three aspects. First, it advances the understanding of digital innovation processes. While the extant platform literature studies isolated processes, this study brings an investigation of their simultaneous occurrence, providing different insights about their dynamics. Second, this thesis goes a step further in the comprehension of innovation coordination. Scholars have described several mechanisms that are put in place to orchestrate third-party innovation, and this investigation builds on them to show how the orchestration occurs. Finally, this research draws attention to a different aspect of innovation adoption. The digital platform literature has not looked at the antecedents of innovation adoption, i.e., innovation visions, which here are depicted in detail from their emergence to their articulation in the market