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Elgar Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship and Digitalization -

Elgar Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship and Digitalization

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304 Seiten
2025
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-1928-2 (ISBN)
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Increasing digitization and digitalization offer critical questions both for entrepreneurship scholars and practitioners. This authoritative Encyclopedia, provides a comprehensive reference work on the opportunities and challenges related to digital entrepreneurship. Entries cover essential topics, including important entrepreneurial contexts and concepts, entrepreneurship theories and theoretical frameworks, and digital technologies and applications.

Key Features:





Over 50 focused entries, each discussing how digital technologies affect or could impact the entrepreneurship process
Contributions from leading scholars and emerging scholars as well as practitioners offering diverse and international viewpoints on digital entrepreneurship
Dialogues about digital entrepreneurship trends valuable for academic audiences but also accessible to practitioners and suitable for classroom discussions
An Introduction furnishing a thoughtful overview of the increasing convergence of the physical and digital worlds and why it fundamentally nuances, and extends, what we (think we) know about entrepreneurship



This Encyclopedia is a vital reference for scholars and students of entrepreneurship, business and management, and innovation and technology. Practitioners will also benefit from its coverage of foundational concepts, cutting-edge debates, and forecasts.

Edited by Franz T. Lohrke, Lowder Eminent Scholar and Professor of Entrepreneurship, Raymond J. Harbert College of Business, Auburn University, Joseph J. Cabral, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, E.J. Ourso College of Business, Louisiana State University and Cynthia Frownfelter-Lohrke, Professor of Accounting, Brock School of Business, Samford University, USA

Contents
Entrepreneurship, digitalization,
and digital entrepreneurship 1
PART I ENTREPRENEURIAL
CONCEPTS AND CONTEXTS
1 Cash flow management 11
Garrison LaDuca
2 Corporate entrepreneurship 15
Matthew J. Mazzei
3 Entrepreneurial exits 21
Kaushik Gala and Manjot S. Bhussar
4 Family business and
digitalization 25
Sonia M. Strano
5 Family business branding 30
Sonia M. Strano
6 Founding teams 36
J. Daniel Aldave and Jasmine
N. Kelley
7 Funding pitches 42
Franz T. Lohrke
8 Inequities in financial capital
access 46
William G. Obenauer
9 Initial public offerings 50
Majid Rahimi
10 Key financial metrics for new
and small businesses 56
Kyle W. Outlaw
11 Social entrepreneurship 62
Franz T. Lohrke and Patrick J. Murphy
12 Strategic entrepreneurship 68
Matthew J Mazzei
PART II ENTREPRENEURSHIP
THEORIES AND
THEORETICAL
FRAMEWORKS
13 Absorptive capacity 74
Jose Santiago-Anadón and
Matthew J. Mazzei
14 Agency theory 79
Athina Skiadopoulou and
Majid Rahimi
15 Attention-based view of the
firm 85
Athina Skiadopoulou
16 Dark personality traits 91
Tyler N. A. Fezzey
17 Decision-Making Biases and
Heuristics 97
Sana Zafar and Katie C. Alexander
18 Entrepreneurial alertness 101
Art Carden and Reginald J. Harris
19 Entrepreneurial ecosystems and
digitization 107
Yu Liu, Lei Xu, and Christina
Theodoraki
20 Entrepreneurial identity 113
Kate McCombs
21 Entrepreneurial orientation 117
Joshua V. White and Matthew
J. Mazzei
22 Entrepreneurial passion 123
Ying Schwarte and Jasmine N. Kelley
23 Entrepreneurial resilience 127
Debby Osias
24 Entrepreneurial self-efficacy 133
Kate McCombs
25 External enablers: the role of
digital technologies 136
Per Davidsson
26 Individual entrepreneurial
orientation 139
Tyler N. A. Fezzey and Joshua V. White
27 Opportunity evaluation 145
Eduardo A. Meléndez and
Matthew S. Wood
28 Opportunity exploitation 150
Franz T. Lohrke
29 Opportunity recognition 155
Mariza Gabriela L. Mesquita
and Joseph J. Cabral
30 Optimal distinctiveness 160
Franz T. Lohrke
31 Signaling theory 163
Josue Reynoso
32 Social capital 169
Reginald Harris
33 Social cognitive theory 173
Katie C. Alexander and Sana Zafar
34 Spatial thinking and
digital geospatial tools for
entrepreneurship 176
William J. Ritchie, Joseph
Kerski and Franz T. Lohrke
PART III DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
AND APPLICATIONS
35 Additive manufacturing
in entrepreneurship and
digitalization 185
Alexandra Q. Lohrke
36 Artificial intelligence: a broad
overview 187
Cynthia Frownfelter-Lohrke
37 Artificial intelligence: creative
effects 191
Shafagh Rezaei and William
G. Obenauer
38 Artificial intelligence:
implications for competitive
advantage 195
Jasmine N. Kelleyand Franz T. Lohrke
39 Artificial intelligence’s role as
an external enabler 202
Joseph Fox
40 Big data 205
Franz T. Lohrke
41 Blockchain 210
Franz T. Lohrke
42 Chatbots 215
Jasmine N. Kelley
43 Crowdfunding 219
Mariza Gabriela L. Mesquita
and Shane W. Reid
44 Crowdsourcing 224
Mariza Gabriela L. Mesquita
45 Digital affordances and
entrepreneurial action 229
Petrit Ademi
46 Digital platforms 233
Franz T. Lohrke, LaKami T.
Baker, and Qiongrui (Missy) Yao
47 Entrepreneurial applications of
generative artificial intelligence 239
Jeremy C. Short
48 Gig economy 242
Franz T. Lohrke
49 Industry 4.0 246
Adam R. Ficken
50 Internet of Things 252
Franz T. Lohrke
51 Modularity in digital
technologies 256
Josue Reynoso
52 Omnichannel marketing 261
Franz T. Lohrke
53 Online influencers’ role
in building new venture
legitimacy 266
Kevin Heupel, Duygu Philips,
and Matthew W. Rutherford
54 Paradoxical entrepreneurial
decision-making amongst high-
and low-technology ventures 273
Jonathan C. Preedom and
Amy E. Ingram
55 Search engine optimization 280
Franz T. Lohrke
56 Social media platforms 284
Franz T. Lohrke

Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.12.2025
Reihe/Serie Elgar Encyclopedias in Business and Management series
Verlagsort Cheltenham
Sprache englisch
Maße 169 x 244 mm
Themenwelt Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Unternehmensführung / Management
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Wirtschaftsinformatik
ISBN-10 1-0353-1928-4 / 1035319284
ISBN-13 978-1-0353-1928-2 / 9781035319282
Zustand Neuware
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