Digital transformation has a significant impact on firm internationalization. This paper aims to
provide a systematic literature review to analyze two decades of literature on key issues …

Extant literature has increased our understanding of specific aspects of digital
transformation; however, we lack a comprehensive portrait of its nature and implications …

Digital technologies have nowadays a significant impact on how new business ventures are
imagined and created. The arising technology paradigm is leveraging the potential of …

In recent years, countries have adopted policies seeking to promote the development and
adoption of innovative digital technologies and grow their entrepreneurial ecosystems. In …

The concept of an 'innovation ecosystem'is increasingly used to describe collectives of
heterogeneous, yet complementary organizational actors who jointly create some kind of …

The diffusion of e-commerce has played a significant role in recent rural economic
development in China. E-commerce is also considered as an efficient channel to alleviate …

Rural E-commerce (EC) has experienced rapid growth in China since 21st century. The
formation of Taobao Villages has brought considerable economic and social benefits in …

The economic effects of rural e-commerce have been fully discussed by scholars, but few
studies focus on the environmental effects of rural e-commerce. This study takes the reduced …

Digital social innovation (DSI) involves the use of digital technologies in the development
and implementation of innovative products, services, processes and business models that …

The 14 papers in this special issue discuss the roles of information and communication
technologies (ICTs) in a wide range of major societal challenges, including employment …