Paper Info
Title
Entrepreneurial Agency in Information Technology Creation
Abstract
Entrepreneurs are typically resource poor when they set out to create their IT innovation. They must seek out and use resources that they do not have to create their innovation. How they do so is at the heart of this study. Successful realisation of such innovations requires collective effort, involving resources and actors both internal and external to the entrepreneur's own venture. The study is qualitative in nature and uses the grounded theory method to collect and analyse data obtained from interviewing entrepreneurs and collective agents involved in creating IT innovations. The study found that entrepreneurs act to acquire and guide the services of the collective agents to aid them in creating the IT innovation. With specific reference to IT innovation, software development expertise was found to be a critical resource requirement. This process that the entrepreneur undertakes can be explained through a process of entrepreneurial agency that comprises six discrete steps.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/HICSS.2013.203
HICSS
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
entrepreneur undertakes,information technology creation,discrete step,it innovation,analyse data,critical resource requirement,collective effort,collective agent,use resource,own venture,entrepreneurship,intrapreneurship,entrepreneurial agency,data analysis,innovation management
Conference
1530-1605 E-ISBN : 978-0-7695-4892-0
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-0-7695-4892-0
0
0.34
References 
Authors
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tony Thistoll100.34
Val Hooper2226.69
Pak Yoong315821.54