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posted on 2019-07-12, 15:05 authored by Angela Martinez DyThis conceptual paper critically analyses whether digital technologies have the potential to level the entrepreneurial playing field, and presents a more comprehensive and nuanced view of an increasingly significant yet underexplored phenomenon. Drawing upon three broad theoretical lenses: neoclassical economic entrepreneurship theory, cyberfeminist theories of technology and social embeddedness approaches to entrepreneurship, it critiques popular assumptions about digital entrepreneurship as an equalising force. It develops a novel critical-social perspective on digital entrepreneurship and an innovative typology of the landscape. Such an approach highlights a range of digital entrepreneurial activity and actors excluded from mainstream view, theorises the impact of technological requirements and socially distributed resources, and concludes that optimistic promises of success have been, and are likely to continue to be, realized primarily by those already in the top rungs of the social ladder.
Funding
PhD scholarship at Nottingham University Business School, the Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship for Research Excellence.
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- Loughborough University London
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MARTINEZ DY, A., 2019. Levelling the playing field? Towards a critical-social perspective on digital entrepreneurship. Futures, doi:10.1016/j.futures.2019.102438.Publisher
© ElsevierVersion
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This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Futures and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2019.102438Acceptance date
2019-07-03Publication date
2019-07-09Copyright date
2022ISSN
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