Elgar Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship and Digitalization

Increasing digitization and digitalization offer critical questions both for entrepreneurship scholars and practitioners. 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.Key Features:Over 50 focused entries, each discussing how digital technologies affect or could impact the entrepreneurship processContributions from leading scholars and emerging scholars as well as practitioners offering diverse and international viewpoints on digital entrepreneurshipDialogues about digital entrepreneurship trends valuable for academic audiences but also accessible to practitioners and suitable for classroom discussionsAn Introduction furnishing a thoughtful overview of the increasing convergence of the physical and digital worlds and why it fundamentally nuances, and extends, what we (think we) know about entrepreneurshipThis Encyclopedia is a vital reference for scholars and students of entrepreneurship, business and management, and innovation and technology. Practitioners will also benefit from its coverage of foundational concepts, cutting-edge debates, and forecasts.