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

Wenyu Du and Wenjie Li

Chapter 1 in Digital Enablement:The Consumerizational and Transformational Effects of Digital Technology, 2018, pp 1-25 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Digital Enablement; ICT; Information Systems; China; Case Study; Qualitative (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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