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How digital entrepreneurship platforms enable new ventures: A framework of enabling strategies

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  • Chen, Xiao
  • Chen, Roger (Rongxin)
  • Zheng, Gang
  • Song, Di

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Prior literature demonstrates that digital entrepreneurship platforms function as external enablers of entrepreneurship, providing essential resources to foster the growth of new ventures. Nonetheless, the strategies employed by these platforms to facilitate entrepreneurial firms remain insufficiently underexplored, leaving gaps in understanding how these platforms operationalize their enabling potential in diverse entrepreneurial contexts. From the theoretical lens of the external enabler framework, this study develops a framework of enabling strategies through a multiple-case study of representative digital entrepreneurship platforms. In this framework, two dimensions and four associated enabling strategies are identified. These strategies refine the mechanisms through which digital entrepreneurship platforms enable new ventures, thus filling the pertinent research gaps in this domain. This study further contributes to the literature on the external enablers of new ventures across distinct scenarios and platform-enabled entrepreneurship.

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  • Chen, Xiao & Chen, Roger (Rongxin) & Zheng, Gang & Song, Di, 2026. "How digital entrepreneurship platforms enable new ventures: A framework of enabling strategies," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 86(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:teinso:v:86:y:2026:i:c:s0160791x26000382
    DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2026.103249
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