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Digital Entrepreneurship Ecosystem as a New Form of Organizing: A Case of Zhongguancun

In: DIGITAL ENABLEMENT The Consumerizational and Transformational Effects of Digital Technology

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  • Wenyu Du
  • Wenjie Li

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Digital entrepreneurship ecosystem (DEE) plays a significant role for generating digital innovations because it contains variable resources and facilitates the collective collaborations. Many regions have established the DEE to support digital innovations in order to improve their economic environment. However, researches on digital innovation at ecosystem level are limited. In addition, the knowledge about “how to organize DEE” is inadequate. To unveil the organizing forms of DEE, we consider DEE as a “new” form of organizing for the absence of traditional organizing elements such as hierarchy and formal authority. Through this theoretical lens, DEE can be analyzed as an organization, rather than a combination of actors. Empirically, we conducted a case study of Zhongguancun (ZGC), a successful DEE in China, and interviewed 51 heterogeneous people. We found that eight activities compose the organizing form of DEE.

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  • Wenyu Du & Wenjie Li, 2018. "Digital Entrepreneurship Ecosystem as a New Form of Organizing: A Case of Zhongguancun," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Shan Ling Pan & M S Sandeep (ed.), DIGITAL ENABLEMENT The Consumerizational and Transformational Effects of Digital Technology, chapter 1, pages 1-25, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789813209138_0001
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    Keywords

    Digital Enablement; ICT; Information Systems; China; Case Study; Qualitative;
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    JEL classification:

    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

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