Digital technology-based entrepreneurial pursuit of the marginalised communities

Minayora, Amore; Ghauri, Pervez; Fu, Xiaolan

Abstract

United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals call for an inclusive development and empowerment of marginalised communities. However, scholars have suggested that one single discipline or party, Multinational Enterprises, Governments or NGOs, cannot tackle these issues alone. Parallel to this, nonmarket strategies emphasising the societal context of economic competition have appeared as an important topic of research. Taking an inter-disciplinary perspective, this paper examines the extant research in digital technology, entrepreneurship and development studies to identify whether these three fields can help us understand how these issues can be tackled from a nonmarket strategies' approach and propose a conceptual model. We analyse papers published from 1994 to 2018 in these fields to map the collective state of research and provide a conceptual framework. We believe that this will help in establishing a relationship between digital technology, entrepreneurship and inclusive development. It will also help us to understand how to transform the benefits of technology into jobs and income for marginalised communities. This study will encourage researchers to investigate how United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can be achieved.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 14, 2022
• Online Publication Date: Mar 27, 2022
• Publication Date: Jun 1, 2022
• Deposit Date: Jul 27, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 28, 2022
• Journal: Journal of International Management
• Print ISSN: 1075-4253
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 100948
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intman.2022.100948
• Keywords: Digital technology, Entrepreneurship, Conceptual framework, Marginalised communities, Sustainable development goals, SDGs
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9754058
• Publisher URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1075425322000230?via%3Dihub