What is e-entrepreneurship? - fundamentals of company founding in the net economy

Internal and external information and communication processes at enterprises across almost every industry sector have been increasingly supported by electronic information technologies. The fundamental advantages of such technologies insure that this trend will continue in the future. The constant development of technology in the accompanying Net Economy has had a significant influence on various possibilities for developing innovative business concepts based on electronic information and communication networks and realising these by establishing a new company (e-ventures). Against this background, the term ‘e-entrepreneurship’ respectively describes the act of establishing new companies specifically in the Net Economy. Therefore, this article focuses on answering the following questions: which environment and which possibilities does the Net Economy offer for new and innovative entrepreneurial activities?

[1]  P. Evans,et al.  Strategy and the new economics of information. , 1997, Harvard business review.

[2]  John C. Ruhnka,et al.  A venture capital model of the development process for new ventures , 1987 .

[3]  Enid Mumford,et al.  Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution , 1995 .

[4]  Tobias Kollmann.  The Information Triple Jump as the Measure of Success in Electronic Commerce , 1998, Electron. Mark..

[5]  Vladimir Zwass,et al.  Electronic Commerce and Organizational Innovation: Aspects and Opportunities , 2003, Int. J. Electron. Commer..

[6]  Hans Georg Gemünden,et al.  The impact of personality, competence, and activities of academic entrepreneurs on technology transfer success , 2002 .

[7]  G. T. Lumpkin,et al.  E-Business strategies and internet business models: How the internet adds value , 2004 .

[8]  T. Kollmann.  Attitude, adoption or acceptance? Measuring the market success of telecommunication and multimedia technology , 2004 .

[9]  Tawfik Jelassi,et al.  Strategies for e-Business: Concepts and Cases on Value Creation and Digital Business Transformation , 2020, Classroom Companion: Business.

[10]  F. Caeldries.  Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution , 1994 .

[11]  Michael Taylor,et al.  SMEs and e‐business , 2004 .

[12]  Tobias Kollmann,et al.  Measuring the Acceptance of Electronic Marketplaces: A Study Based on a Used-car Trading Site , 2006, J. Comput. Mediat. Commun..

[13]  Bryan Hattingh,et al.  The competitive advantage , 2007 .

[14]  M. Porter,et al.  How Information Gives You Competitive Advantage , 1985 .

[15]  R. Amit,et al.  Value creation in E‐business , 2001 .

[16]  H. Matlay.  E‐entrepreneurship and small e‐business development: towards a comparative research agenda , 2004 .

[17]  James B. Shuman,et al.  The Kondratieff Wave , 1972 .

[18]  Tobias Kollmann,et al.  Competitive advantages in virtual markets ‐ perspectives of “information‐based marketing” in cyberspace , 1998 .

[19]  Israel M. Kirzner.  Competition and Entrepreneurship , 1973 .

[20]  Don Tapscott,et al.  The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence , 2003 .