Digital social entrepreneurship: the N-Helix response to stakeholders’ COVID-19 needs
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2021
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Abstract
This study explores the emergence of a new entrepreneurship phenomenon (digital social
entrepreneurship) as a result of the collaboration among many agents (N-Helix), given the
government’s limited capacity to respond to the stakeholders’ needs satisfaction related to
an exogenous event (e.g., the COVID-19 pandemic). Our theory development is based on
three ongoing academic debates related to (a) the unrepresentativeness of the stakeholder theory in entrepreneurship research; (b) the emergence of digital social entrepreneurship (DSE) as a bridge between stakeholders’ needs, socio-economic actors, and digital-social initiatives; and (c) the role of N-Helix collaborations to facilitate the emergence of global knowledge-intensive initiatives and the rapid adoptions of open innovations. Our results support our assumptions about the positive mediation efect of DSE in the relationship between N-Helix collaborations and stakeholders’ satisfaction. Notably, results show how pandemic has intensifed these relationships and how DSE in N-Helix collaborations can generate social impacts globally. Some implications for policy-makers have emerged from our results that should be considered during/post-COVID-19 pandemic.
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Ibáñez, M.J., Guerrero, M., Yáñez-Valdés, C. et al. Digital social entrepreneurship: the N-Helix response to stakeholders’ COVID-19 needs. J Technol Transf (e2021, p2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-021-09855-4
Keywords
Stakeholders theory, Digital social entrepreneurship, N-Helix collaboration, Knowledge transfer, Technology transfer, COVID-19 pandemic