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Digital subsistence entrepreneurs on Facebook

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Date
2019
Dewey
Direction d'entreprise
Sujet
Digital entrepreneurs; Subsistence entrepreneurship; Social capital; Peer-to-peer platforms; Facebook groups
JEL code
M.M5.M54
Journal issue
Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Elsevier
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2018.06.018
URI
https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/17856
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Delacroix, Eva
1032 Dauphine Recherches en Management [DRM]
Parguel, Béatrice
1032 Dauphine Recherches en Management [DRM]
Benoît-Moreau, Florence
1032 Dauphine Recherches en Management [DRM]
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Article accepté pour publication ou publié
Abstract (EN)
Digital entrepreneurs are usually presented as young, urban, well-educated individuals working for innovative start-ups. In sharp contrast with this “hipster” view, this research identifies digital subsistence entrepreneurs as a new type of entrepreneurs that recently appeared in developed countries. To do so, it investigates buy-and-sell activities on Facebook groups using a multi-method approach involving in-depth interviews, netnography, and participatory observation. The findings indicate that digital subsistence entrepreneurs' activities pertain to survival entrepreneurship rather than transformative entrepreneurship. Nonetheless, they satisfy more than purely financial needs, also providing hedonic (spending time with family, creating), relational (meeting new people) and symbolic benefits (raising self-esteem, redefining roles at home and in society). This research also shows that subsistence entrepreneurs' rebirth in developed countries is founded on the structural, cognitive and relational forms of social capital that are grounded in peer-to-peer platforms digital features. It thus offers interesting contributions and implications for public policy makers engaged in the regulation of the sharing economy.

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