Knowledge-Driven Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Exploring Digital Technologies and Platforms for Business Viability Among Immigrant Entrepreneurs

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This study explores the use of digital technologies and platforms (DTPs) among immigrant entrepreneurs to acquire knowledge and shape creation and growth of their ventures. Immigrant entrepreneurs face business viability concerns due to small size of ventures, concentration in ethnic enclaves and their focus on limited to low margin or highly competitive sectors. The extant literature illustrates that use of DTPs can shape creation of new business models, products, forms of innovation and allow entrepreneurs to transform their businesses. Yet, entrepreneurs' capabilities, skills, and resources and ethnic, social, or cultural factors limit immigrants’ use of DTPs. Recent literature has presented … continued below

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Makani, Joyline October 2024.

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This study explores the use of digital technologies and platforms (DTPs) among immigrant entrepreneurs to acquire knowledge and shape creation and growth of their ventures. Immigrant entrepreneurs face business viability concerns due to small size of ventures, concentration in ethnic enclaves and their focus on limited to low margin or highly competitive sectors. The extant literature illustrates that use of DTPs can shape creation of new business models, products, forms of innovation and allow entrepreneurs to transform their businesses. Yet, entrepreneurs' capabilities, skills, and resources and ethnic, social, or cultural factors limit immigrants’ use of DTPs. Recent literature has presented small businesses as frequently encountering malware attacks, receiving spam emails and fake invoices, and being subjected to phishing, and other forms of cyber threats. Such issues challenge the establishment, innovation, diversification, and growth of immigrant-owned businesses. This is further exacerbated by the recent increase in use of AI. However, existing literature does not examine these issues nor provide insights into AI and immigrants DTPs use or non-use comprehensively. Grounded on mixed embeddedness and knowledge based dynamic capabilities theoretical foundations, this study examines the means, conditions, and context by which immigrant entrepreneurs utilize DTPs to grow and fulfill their entrepreneurial ambitions to enhance their performance. Immigrant-owned businesses require both embedding and knowledge-based capabilities to successfully adopt DTPs. Drawing on a systematic review of the literature and in-depth interviews with immigrant entrepreneurs in Canada, we contribute to development of enhanced theory, practice, and policy in knowledge management, entrepreneurship, and immigrant integration.

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The International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM) provides researchers and practitioners from all over the world a forum for discussion and exchange of ideas concerning theoretical and practical aspects of Knowledge Management. ICKM 2024 held October 21-22 in Kent State University Hotel & Conference Center, Kent, Ohio, United States. ICKM´s main objective is to foster discussions about the role of co-production via multiple stakeholders in the realm of knowledge generation, and also discussions about how governance strategies and knowledge management practices influence participation and collaboration for the co-production, and thus how to use this new knowledge for the common good.

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  • 19th International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM-2024), October 21-22, 2024. Kent State University Hotel & Conference Center, Kent, Ohio, United States

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Makani, Joyline. Knowledge-Driven Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Exploring Digital Technologies and Platforms for Business Viability Among Immigrant Entrepreneurs, paper, October 2024; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2414084/: accessed October 11, 2026), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT College of Information.

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