Destructive digital entrepreneurship

Wim Naudé

Chapter 17 in Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Conflict, 2024, pp 292-328 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter provides a selective overview of destructive digital entrepreneurship. The concept is defined and elaborated in the context of the digital revolution that has been unfolding since the Second World War. It is argued that the digital revolution was hijacked by the corporate sector: the incentives for unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship to subvert the digital revolution, was just too strong. Ten subsequent digital dystopias - adverse outcomes resulting from destructive digital entrepreneurship - are discussed. These are digital platform capitalism, tech exceptionalism, the surveillance state, the digital poorhouse, digital divides, the loss of sense-making, digital addiction, digital depression, cybercrime, and awful AI. The chapter concludes by exploring how institutional and regulatory frameworks can best reduce the risks from destructive digital entrepreneurship.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy General Academic Interest (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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