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| Rank | Title | Author (year) | Citation frequency | Main points |
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| 1 | Digital entrepreneurship: Toward a digital technology perspective of entrepreneurship | Nambisan (2017) [16] | 119 | Identifies three digital technology elements and discusses the definition of digital entrepreneurship. |
| 2 | Digital innovation management: Reinventing innovation management research in a digital world | Nambisan (2017) [60] | 45 | Defines digital innovation, expounds the challenge of digital technology to three traditional innovation management assumptions, and puts forward four theoretical logics of digital innovation. |
| 3 | Digital affordances, spatial affordances, and the genesis of entrepreneurial ecosystem | Autio et al. (2018) [22] | 40 | Analyzes the characteristics of entrepreneurial ecosystems based on digital affordances and spatial affordances. |
| 4 | Digital technologies as external enablers of new venture creation in the IT hardware sector | von Briel et al. (2018) [5] | 36 | Identifies two basic attributes of digital technology and discusses digital technology-enabled start-ups in the IT hardware industry through six enabling mechanisms. |
| 5 | The digital transformation of innovation and entrepreneurship: Progress, challenges and key themes | Nambisan et al. (2019) [17] | 30 | Explores how digital technology influences the openness, affordance, and generativity of innovation and entrepreneurship. |
| 6 | Platform revolution: How networked markets are transforming the economy and how to make them work for you | Parker et al. (2016) [61] | 30 | Expounds the network effect, system structure design, market subversion, innovation activation strategy, profit mode, opening strategy, operation mode, measurement index, competition problem analysis, and regulatory policy in the era of Internet platforms. |
| 7 | The digital entrepreneurial ecosystem | Sussan and Acs (2017) [12] | 28 | Offers a conceptual framework of digital entrepreneurial ecosystem: Digital infrastructure governance, digital user citizenship, digital entrepreneurship, and digital marketplace. |
| 8 | Digital entrepreneurship: A research agenda on new business models for the twenty-first century | Kraus et al. (2019) [38] | 24 | Identifies and discusses six research streams of digital entrepreneurship: Digital business model, digital entrepreneurship process, platform strategy, digital ecosystem, entrepreneurship education, and digital social entrepreneurship. |
| 9 | Fifteen years of research on business model innovation: How far have we come, and where should we go? | Foss and Saebi (2017) [62] | 23 | Reviews four research topics of business model innovation and points out future research directions. |
| 10 | Digital technology entrepreneurship: A definition and research agenda | Giones and Brem (2017) [14] | 22 | Distinguishes the definitions of technology entrepreneurship, digital entrepreneurship, and digital technology entrepreneurship. |
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