Elgar Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship and Digitalization.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lohrke, Franz.

Contributor:

Lohrke, Franz

Cabral, Joseph

Frownfelter-Lohrke, Cynthia

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar encyclopedias in business and management series.

Elgar Encyclopedias in Business and Management Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management.

Business.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

List of contributors

Entrepreneurship, digitalization, and digital entrepreneurship

PART I: Entrepreneurial concepts and contexts

Chapter 1: Cash flow management

Chapter 2: Corporate entrepreneurship

Chapter 3: Entrepreneurial exits

Chapter 4: Family business and digitalization

Chapter 5: Family business branding

Chapter 6: Founding teams

Chapter 7: Funding pitches

Chapter 8: Inequities in financial capital access

Chapter 9: Initial public offerings

Chapter 10: Key financial metrics for new and small businesses

Chapter 11: Social entrepreneurship

Chapter 12: Strategic entrepreneurship

PART II: Entrepreneurship theories and theoretical frameworks

Chapter 13: Absorptive capacity

Chapter 14: Agency theory

Chapter 15: Attention-based view of the firm

Chapter 16: Dark personality traits

Chapter 17: Decision-making biases and heuristics

Chapter 18: Entrepreneurial alertness

Chapter 19: Entrepreneurial ecosystems and digitization

Chapter 20: Entrepreneurial identity

Chapter 21: Entrepreneurial orientation

Chapter 22: Entrepreneurial passion

Chapter 23: Entrepreneurial resilience

Chapter 24: Entrepreneurial self-efficacy

Chapter 25: External enablers: the role of digital technologies

Chapter 26: Individual entrepreneurial orientation

Chapter 27: Opportunity evaluation

Chapter 28: Opportunity exploitation

Chapter 29: Opportunity recognition

Chapter 30: Optimal distinctiveness

Chapter 31: Signaling theory

Chapter 32: Social capital

Chapter 33: Social cognitive theory

Chapter 34: Spatial thinking and digital geospatial tools for entrepreneurship

PART III: Digital technologies and applications

Chapter 35: Additive manufacturing in entrepreneurship and digitalization.

Chapter 36: Artificial intelligence: a broad overview

Chapter 37: Artificial intelligence: creative effects

Chapter 38: Artificial intelligence: implications for competitive advantage

Chapter 39: Artificial intelligence's role as an external enabler

Chapter 40: Big data

Chapter 41: Blockchain

Chapter 42: Chatbots

Chapter 43: Crowdfunding

Chapter 44: Crowdsourcing

Chapter 45: Digital affordances and entrepreneurial action

Chapter 46: Digital platforms

Chapter 47: Entrepreneurial applications of generative artificial intelligence

Chapter 48: Gig economy

Chapter 49: Industry 4.0

Chapter 50: Internet of Things

Chapter 51: Modularity in digital technologies

Chapter 52: Omnichannel marketing

Chapter 53: Online influencers' role in building new venture legitimacy

Chapter 54: Paradoxical entrepreneurial decision-making amongst high- and low-technology ventures

Chapter 55: Search engine optimization

Chapter 56: Social media platforms

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-03-537993-7

1-03-531929-2

9781035319299

OCLC:

1570554609