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Digital Entrepreneurship and Sustainability: The State of the Art and Research Agenda

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  • Catarina Fernandes

    (Departamento de Ciências Empresariais e Jurídicas, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, 5300-253 Bragança, Portugal
    Centro de Economia e Finanças da Universidade do Porto (CEF.UP), Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto, 4200-464 Porto, Portugal)

  • Rui Pires

    (Departamento de Ciências Empresariais e Jurídicas, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, 5300-253 Bragança, Portugal)

  • Maria-Ceu Gaspar Alves

    (NECE-UBI Research Unit in Business Sciences, University of Beira Interior, 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal)

Abstract

Digital technologies have changed and disrupted the dynamics of the economy and society as a whole, offering new opportunities for entrepreneurs with potential impact on economic, environmental, and social value creation. This paper examines the scientific research on digital entrepreneurship (DE) and sustainability based on data from Scopus database. The main purpose is to identify both the predominant themes and further research opportunities to this topic. This study uses a bibliometric analysis, analyzing and synthesizing research on DE and sustainability, based on a total of 58 publications. Co-word analysis used to identify the conceptual structure reveals three thematic clusters: (1) innovation and entrepreneurship, (2) digital transformation: strategy and business models, and (3) sustainability and sustainable development goals. For each thematic cluster, the most significant contributions are presented. Further, this paper offers a future research agenda and holds significant implications for the theory and practice of the different subtopics of DE and sustainability.

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  • Catarina Fernandes & Rui Pires & Maria-Ceu Gaspar Alves, 2022. "Digital Entrepreneurship and Sustainability: The State of the Art and Research Agenda," Economies, MDPI, vol. 11(1), pages 1-15, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jecomi:v:11:y:2022:i:1:p:3-:d:1008789
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