IT and Entrepreneurism: An On-Again, Off-Again Love Affair or a Marriage?

Author List: Del Giudice, Manlio; Straub, Detmar;

MIS Quarterly, 2011, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page III-VII.

The article discusses the relationship between entrepreneurship and information technology (IT), focusing on various reasons why the two have become intertwined. Topics discussed include the development of new technologies, the contributions of IT to economic development, and the role of market competitiveness in the creation of new entrepreneurial ventures. The author identifies increases in capital share per labor unit and spillover effects such as network externalities as the two links which explicitly exist between IT capital equipment and labor productivity growth.

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