数字技术对创业活动影响研究回顾与展望

Review and prospect of research on the impact of digital technology on entrepreneurial activities

大数据、人工智能、社交媒体等数字技术正在不断渗透和改变着创业行为和结果,但数字技术对创业活动的影响研究现在还处于探索阶段,缺乏一个系统的研究框架。基于此,本文在FT50和UTD24共52个期刊中,选取1998年至2018年近21年有关数字技术与创业活动关系的研究进行梳理,旨在揭示数字技术的内涵和属性及其对创业活动的影响。研究发现数字技术对创业活动有正面和负面影响并且挑战了现有的创业理论,包括资源基础观、动态能力、制度理论、网络理论、机会发现观和机会创造观。最后基于研究局限性及现实需求,并运用过程理论的思想构建未来的研究框架,提出未来需要重点研究的问题。

Digital technologies such as big data,artificial intelligence and social media are constantly infiltrating and changing entrepreneurial behaviors and outcomes.However,the research on how digital technologies influence entrepreneurial activities is still under exploration,and there’s no systematic research framework.Based on this,this paper reviews articles on this topic in the past 21 years from 1998 to 2018 in 52 journals of FT50 and UTD24 to reveal the connotation and attributes of digital technology and its impact on entrepreneurial activities.The results show that digital technology has positive and negative effects on entrepreneurial activities and challenges existing entrepreneurial theories,including resource-based view,dynamic capabilities theory,institutional theory,network theory, opportunity discovery and creation theory.Finally,based on the research limitations and realistic needs,this paper present a future research framework and the issues that need to be further studied using process theory.