Artikel
Digital affordances: how entrepreneurs access support in online communities during the COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19 has caused significant and unforeseen problems for entrepreneurs. While entrepreneurs would normally seek social support to help deal with these issues, due to social distancing, physical networks are often not available. Consequently, entrepreneurs must turn to alternative support sources, such as online communities, raising the question of how support is created in such spaces. Drawing on an affordance perspective, we investigate how entrepreneurs interact with online communities and base our qualitative analysis on conversation data (76,365 posts) from an online community of entrepreneurs on Reddit during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings draw out four affordances that online communities offer to entrepreneurs (resolving problems, reframing problems, reflecting on situations, refocusing thinking and efforts), resulting in a framework of entrepreneurial support creation in online communities. Thus, our study contributes to debates around (1) entrepreneurs' support during COVID-19 and (2) digital affordances in the entrepreneurship context.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Journal: Small Business Economics ; ISSN: 1573-0913 ; Volume: 58 ; Year: 2021 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 637-663 ; New York, NY: Springer US
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Entrepreneurship
Business Administration: General
New Firms; Startups
- Thema
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Entrepreneurial support
Online communities
Affordances
COVID-19
Big data
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Meurer, Marie Madeleine
Waldkirch, Matthias
Schou, Peter Kalum
Bucher, Eliane Léontine
Burmeister-Lamp, Katrin
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Springer US
- (wo)
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New York, NY
- (wann)
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2021
- DOI
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doi:10.1007/s11187-021-00540-2
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Artikel
Beteiligte
- Meurer, Marie Madeleine
- Waldkirch, Matthias
- Schou, Peter Kalum
- Bucher, Eliane Léontine
- Burmeister-Lamp, Katrin
- Springer US
Entstanden
- 2021
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