101: Digital Technologies as Catalysts for Entrepreneurial Activities (14757)

Friday, August 9, 2024

11:00 – 14:00 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

Location: Hyatt: Grand Hall G

Session Number: 101
PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Theme,Research
Highlight
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Organizer(s)

MM

Marie Madeleine Meurer

Jönköping International Business School, Sweden

Host(s)

DC

Dominic Michael Chalmers

U. of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Facilitator(s)

SN

Samira Nazar

Australian National U., Australia

Panelist(s)

SN

Satish Nambisan

Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve U., United States

Host(s)

JR

Jan Recker

U. of Hamburg, Germany

Facilitator(s)

LN

Lucia Naldi

Jonkoping International Business School, Sweden
JK

Jiyoung Kim

Jonkoping International Business School, Sweden

Distinguished Speaker(s)

PD

Per Davidsson

Jönköping International Business School, Australia

Facilitator(s)

SK

Sarfraz Ali Kyani

Queensland U. of Technology, Australia

Panelist(s)

SJ

Sirkka Jarvenpaa

U. of Texas at Austin, United States
HR

Hannes Rothe

U. of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
HA

Howard Aldrich

U. of North Carolina, United States

Slides

There is a growing interest to understand better how digital technologies enable entrepreneurial activities (Nambisan, 2017). The literature points to digital technologies making entrepreneurial processes and outcomes less bounded, compressing, conserving, or otherwise impacting resource requirements in venture creation, or providing other entrepreneurially beneficial affordances when being at the core of a new venture idea. However, these studies often exist in theoretical silos, with information systems and entrepreneurship literature approaching digital technologies from distinct, and often disconnected angles. The theoretical perspective of ‘external enablement’ (EE), which views digital technologies as actor-independent factors that foster entrepreneurial activities (Davidsson, 2015; Davidsson et al., 2020; von Briel et al., 2018), offers a promising avenue to bridge these divides. Hence, focusing on digital technologies as EE, this PDW aims to foster a more integrated perspective on how digital technologies catalyze entrepreneurship. In particular, this PDW explores the usefulness of the EE framework to stimulate multidisciplinary research on digital technologies and entrepreneurial processes and outcomes. To accomplish these objectives, this PDW includes two group activities and a panel discussion. While the first part of the PDW engages participants in exploring the EE construct and framework for studying digital technologies, the second part mixes up participants in multidisciplinary groups and encourages them to apply the EE framework in generating empirical research questions related to given EEs (e.g., AI, blockchain). Lastly, a multidisciplinary panel discussion will be facilitated, triggering research at the intersection of information systems and entrepreneurship in connection to EE.