Digital entrepreneurship is of high topicality as technological developments and advances in infrastructure create various opportunities for entrepreneurs Society’s great attention to new digital business models is opposed to very little research regarding opportunities, challenges and success factors of digital entrepreneurship The purpose of this paper is to gather the state-of-the-art literature on digital entrepreneurship and to provide an up-to-date compilation of key topics and methods discussed in the relevant literature Furthermore, based on findings of the systematic literature review, a research map pointing at further research opportunities for scholars working in the field will be proposed,Utilising a systematic search and review of literature across the domain whilst following the established methodology of Tranfield et al (2003) combined with the application of a quality threshold for journal selection, 35 articles on digital entrepreneurship could be found relevant for an evidence-informed literature review,Based on a conceptual literature review, six streams of research that deal with digital entrepreneurship are identified and discussed: digital business models; digital entrepreneurship process; platform strategies; digital ecosystem; entrepreneurship education; and social digital entrepreneurship,This systematic literature review identifies current research paths on digital entrepreneurship by structuring the dispersed status quo of research in the identified different areas In addition, future research opportunities to deepen the understanding of digital entrepreneurship are highlighted and pictured in a research map

Digital entrepreneurship: A research agenda on new business models for the twenty-first century

More than 50 years ago, information technology (IT) began to change society, the economy, and industries worldwide. This change has included waves of technological disruption that have been exploited by entrepreneurial actors who seize the associated new opportunities. Research on related phenomena is spread across different disciplines. Recently, there have been calls for further research on the marriage of information systems (IS) and entrepreneurship. We review 292 articles in the IS, entrepreneurship, and general and strategic management literature to create an overview of the IT‐associated entrepreneurship research landscape. On the basis of that review, we elaborate on the different roles that IT can assume to support entrepreneurial operations and value creation in these settings. Our findings suggest that IT plays four major roles in entrepreneurial operations: as a facilitator, making the operations of start‐ups easier; as a mediator for new ventures' operations; as an outcome of entrepreneurial operations; and as a ubiquity, becoming the business model itself. Leveraging these roles of IT, we develop a set of definitions to clear up definition uncertainties surrounding IT‐associated new ventures such as digital start‐ups and digital business models. We also outline a research agenda for IT‐associated entrepreneurship research based on identified roles, types, and gaps.

Linking information systems and entrepreneurship: A review and agenda for IT-associated and digital entrepreneurship research

Digital entrepreneurship: An interdisciplinary structured literature review and research agenda

Public Personnel Management

Crowdfunding has matured into a meaningful online marketplace, both for traditional e-commerce activities and for charitable fundraising. For charities, crowdfunding presents novel donation behaviors, including those where donors may proactively seek out causes and give (often anonymously) to help others with whom they share little social connectivity. Understanding these behaviors is challenging compared to traditional fundraising behaviors, where charitable giving is partly explained by factors such as guilt avoidance, reciprocity, image, vicarious enjoyment, and group-level benefits. This suggests that some subset of charitable motivations is brought uniquely into focus in crowdfunding marketplaces. These marketplaces are often inhabited by fundseeking individuals and larger formal organizations. This adds further complexity, given that donors traditionally perceive and interact differently with charitable organizations and less formal fundraising entities. This study explores donation behavior...

Does Heart or Head Rule Donor Behaviors in Charitable Crowdfunding Markets

Information technology IT and entrepreneurship are more closely related than ever. The internet, in particular, inspires the current 'generation start-up'. While some early stage internet start-ups have quickly become major successes, others fail to secure required follow-up funding and collapse. In this paper, we build on and extend the emerging business model research stream with the aim of better understanding the differences between successful and unsuccessful early stage internet start-ups. In the qualitative first part of our mixed-method study, 17 expert informant interviews reveal that internet start-up business models are in permanent flux, continually changed and adapted by founders, who identify their professional social network i.e. their social capital as a critically important factor for developing the business model and ultimately making their start-ups successful. In the quantitative second part of the study, we test this claim based on a social network analysis of 70 internet start-ups and their 145 founders. We find strong support for the critical importance of the founders' social capital for early stage internet start-up success. The findings of this study advance our understanding of the relationship between founders' social capital, the development of business models and the success of early stage internet start-ups.

Business model development, founders' social capital and the success of early stage internet start-ups: a mixed-method study

The crowd funding phenomenon has garnered a considerable amount of attention in recent years. Several online crowd funding platforms have risen to prominence, they can be characterized as two-sided marketplaces. Recent research reveals initial insights into the dynamics and characteristics of crowd funding networks arising from such marketplaces. This research, though, is restricted primarily to analyses of static network snapshots and at the dyadic level. In this study, we use a large longitudinal dataset to analyze the behavior of actors on both sides of the market who promote their own and fund others' projects. We investigate the influence of endogenous and exogenous effects on the dynamics of crowd funding networks. Our results provide evidence for mechanisms promoting a hierarchical network organization and the absence of homophily-related mechanisms regarding gender or geographic distance. Moreover, we establish that experienced and popular project creators fund fewer projects.

Collective Dynamics of Crowdfunding Networks

Software development in project teams has become more and more complex, with increasing demands for information and decision making. Software development in projects also hugely depends on effectiv...

Social Network Analysis in Software Development Projects : A Systematic Literature Review

Among the many aspects of IT personnel studied by the information systems (IS) research community, individual voluntary IT turnover is one of the most-examined phenomena. However, research into this phenomenon concentrates mainly on antecedents and cognitive precursors such as turnover intention. Antecedents are essential to understanding the turnover behavior of IT personnel, but they do not represent the complete IT turnover research. The consequences of individual voluntary IT turnover behavior, an important topic, have faded from the spotlight of the IS community. We investigate this by conducting a multidisciplinary scoping literature review of individual voluntary IT turnover behavior, with the focus on the consequences. The purpose of this review is to determine what is known about voluntary IT turnover behavior consequences and what research gaps exist in this research context. To make our review as rigorous as possible, we followed a systematic review approach, accompanied with transparent reporting of all steps of the review process. Our search strategy yielded 153 IT turnover studies, 14 of which consider IT turnover behavior consequences, concentrated primarily on IT project management. Drawing on the scoping review, our study also specifies a research agenda for future IT turnover behavior consequences research by highlighting knowledge gaps for potentially fruitful research directions.

Turning the Spotlight on the Consequences of Individual IT Turnover: A Literature Review and Research Agenda

This study attempts to explore and triangulate with different methods the essence, definition, and methods of the grassroots practitioner term growth hacking. In the qualitative first part of our study, we conduct 12 expert informant interviews and a case study. In the quantitative second part of the study, we conduct a quantitative Twitter analysis to gain additional insights on the findings from the qualitative first part. As a result, we differentiate growth hacking from traditional marketing strategies and create a growth hacking process model depicting a sort of consensus of what can be thought to be integral parts of growth hacking.

Matthäus P. Zylka

Papers

Business model development, founders' social capital and the success of early stage internet start-ups: a mixed-method study

Collective Dynamics of Crowdfunding Networks

Social Network Analysis in Software Development Projects : A Systematic Literature Review

Turning the Spotlight on the Consequences of Individual IT Turnover: A Literature Review and Research Agenda

Growth Hacking: Exploring the Meaning of an Internet-Born Digital Marketing Buzzword