Digital entrepreneurship and field conditions for institutional change– Investigating the enabling role of cities

Andrea Geissinger, Christofer Laurell, Christian Sandström, Klas Eriksson and Rasmus Nykvist

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2019, vol. 146, issue C, 877-886

Abstract: Digital entrepreneurship may result in institutional turbulence and new initiatives are frequently blocked by vested interest groups who posit superior financial and relational resources. In this paper, we explore the role of cities in facilitating digital entrepreneurship and overcoming institutional resistance to innovation. Drawing upon two historical case studies of digital entrepreneurship in the city of Stockholm along with an extensive material on the sharing economy in Sweden, our results suggest that cities offer an environment that is critical for digital entrepreneurship. The economic and technological diversity of a city may provide the field conditions required for institutional change to take place and to avoid regulatory capture.

Keywords: Digital entrepreneurship; Digital innovation; Cities; Agglomeration; Institutional entrepreneurship; Field conditions; Regulatory capture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N84 O32 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2018.06.019

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