Digital Technologies as External Enablers of New Venture Creation in the IT Hardware Sector

von Briel, Frederik; Davidsson, Per; Recker, Jan

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Digital Technologies as External Enablers of New Venture Creation in the IT Hardware Sector

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von Briel, Frederik, Davidsson, Per, Recker, Jan·2018·Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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We develop theory about how and when digital technologies enable new venture creation processes. We identify two fundamental properties of digital technologies—specificity and relationality—and develop propositions that link these properties to six enabling mechanisms: compression, conservation, expansion, substitution, combination, and generation. We use the linked properties and mechanisms to determine how and when in the venture creation process—from prospecting to developing to exploiting—digital technologies have enabled start-ups in the IT hardware sector and develop stage-dependent propositions about their sector-level effects. We conclude our theorizing by discussing its implications beyond digital technologies and the IT hardware sector.

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Authors: von Briel, F., Davidsson, P., & Recker, J.
Venue: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2017-10-09
Volume: 42
Issue: 1
Pages: 47-69
ISSN: 1042-2587 (ISSN-L)
1540-6520
DOI: 10.1177/1042258717732779
OpenAlex: W2789218078
Cited by: 589
References: 7
FWCI: 31.24
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: hybrid
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)

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