Linking information systems and entrepreneurship: A review and agenda for IT‐associated and digital entrepreneurship research
Authors: Steininger, Dennis M.
Journal: Information Systems Journal (2019)
DOI: 10.1111/isj.12206
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>More than 50 years ago, information technology (IT) began to change society, the economy, and industries worldwide. This change has included waves of technological disruption that have been exploited by entrepreneurial actors who seize the associated new opportunities. Research on related phenomena is spread across different disciplines. Recently, there have been calls for further research on the marriage of information systems (IS) and entrepreneurship. We review 292 articles in the IS, entrepreneurship, and general and strategic management literature to create an overview of the IT‐associated entrepreneurship research landscape. On the basis of that review, we elaborate on the different roles that IT can assume to support entrepreneurial operations and value creation in these settings. Our findings suggest that IT plays four major roles in entrepreneurial operations: as a <jats:italic>facilitator</jats:italic>, making the operations of start‐ups easier; as a <jats:italic>mediator</jats:italic> for new ventures' operations; as an <jats:italic>outcome</jats:italic> of entrepreneurial operations; and as a <jats:italic>ubiquity</jats:italic>,…