Highway to hell: Cultural propensity and digital infrastructure gap as recipe to entrepreneurial death

Ludovico Bullini Orlandi, Alessandro Zardini and Cecilia Rossignoli

Journal of Business Research, 2021, vol. 123, issue C, 188-195

Abstract: This paper aims to shed light on the actual rate of new venture death in the context of a high level of digital entrepreneurship. Using three different country-level databases, it investigates how different combinations of socio-cultural propensity towards entrepreneurship, exposure to digital media, and digital infrastructure lead to entrepreneurial death. Longitudinal data on 23 European countries are analyzed employing fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fs-QCA). The findings suggest that, in a context characterized by the presence of high levels of socio-cultural propensity toward entrepreneurship and exposure to digital media and in the absence of high levels of technological and human digital infrastructure, the associated outcome will be a high level of entrepreneurial death for new ventures.

Keywords: Digital transformation; Digital entrepreneurship; Digital infrastructure; Socio-cultural propensity; Entrepreneurial death (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.09.047

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