Handbook of Digital Entrepreneurship

This authoritative Handbook compiles a diverse set of contributions on digital entrepreneurship, providing an in-depth study of how digital entrepreneurship research has evolved over the years, and where it stands today. Offering a snapshot of the major themes in digital entrepreneurship research, the Handbook highlights a wide range of both practice-engaged and practice-relevant works and explores the fundamental concepts and common themes in the field. Chapters examine key topics including the digital platform economy, the digitalization of work, the blockchain economy, and the rural–urban digital divide. The Handbook further analyzes the history and theory of digital entrepreneurship, while also sparking ideas for future research through a consideration of emerging phenomena and new ways to approach research in this broad area of study. Discussing a diverse set of questions, contexts, theories, and methods, this Handbook will be a key resource for researchers and advanced students with a particular interest in entrepreneurship, innovation, technology management, and digital business models. Managers and entrepreneurs will also find the discussion of digital entrepreneurship in relation to financing, social issues, and technology beneficial. Front Matter 2 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Contributors 8 PART I INTRODUCTION 10 1. An introduction to digital entrepreneurship: concepts and themes 11 PART II DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DEFINITIONS 35 2. What is digital entrepreneurship? Fundamentals of company founding in the digital economy 36 3. Eras of digital entrepreneurship: connecting the past, present, and future 58 4. Exploring the field of digital entrepreneurship: a bibliometric analysis 83 PART III DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ECOSYSTEMS 99 5. Measuring the digital platform economy 100 6. The regional impacts of digitalization of work on entrepreneurship in the United States 130 PART IV DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP TECHNOLOGIES 148 7. Startup stacks: understanding the new landscape of digital entrepreneurship technology 149 8. Digital product-assisted learning: transforming entrepreneurial learning with product usage analytics 170 PART V DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ADOPTION AND OUTCOMES 189 9. Punching above their weight class: assessing how digital technologies enhance new and small firm survival and competitiveness 190 10. Digital adoption in micro and small enterprise clusters: a dependency theory study in Kenya 208 PART VI DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND FINANCING 230 11. Crowdfunding: a competency framework for creators 231 12. Backers: consumers or investors? Crowdfunding vs. traditional financing as an optimal security design problem 245 13. Blockchain economy: the challenges and opportunities of initial coin offerings 265 PART VII DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SOCIAL ISSUES 280 14. Agentifying the body algorithmic: digital entrepreneurial agency and accountability gaps 281 15. Digital entrepreneurship in a rural context: the implications of the rural–urban digital divide 300 16. Data are the fuel for digital entrepreneurship—but what about data privacy? 315 Index 332