Entrepreneurship and Disruptive Technologies: Embracing Innovation
A Special Issue of Administrative Sciences (ISSN 2076-3387) belonging to the section "International Entrepreneurship".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 4 October 2026 | Viewed by 1567
Editors
Interests: trust in technology; strategic management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The editorial team invites scholars to submit manuscripts for a Special Issue, "Entrepreneurship and Disruptive Technologies: Embracing Innovation," which explores the dynamic relationship between entrepreneurship, emerging technologies, and innovation.
The fast emergence of disruptive technologies—including artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, robotics, Internet of Things (IoT), extended reality (XR), and advanced data analytics—is fundamentally transforming entrepreneurial activities. These technologies alter how opportunities are identified, evaluated, and exploited, and they challenge established business models, organizational practices, and competitive dynamics. Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial organizations are not only adopting these technologies but also creating new innovation ecosystems.
Despite growing scholarly interest, significant gaps remain in our understanding of how disruptive technologies interact with entrepreneurial processes, decision-making, and organizational outcomes.
This Special Issue, “Entrepreneurship and Disruptive Technologies: Embracing Innovation,” aims to encourage research that achieves the following goals:
- Advances theoretical understanding of how disruptive technologies reshape entrepreneurial cognition, opportunity recognition, and innovation processes.
- Explores new business models and strategies enabled by disruptive technologies, including platform-based and data-driven approaches.
- Examines organizational capabilities required for technology-led entrepreneurship and digital transformation in new ventures.
- Investigates ethical, societal, and regulatory issues stemming from entrepreneurial use of disruptive technologies.
- Encourages multidisciplinary and methodologically diverse research, reflecting the complex nature of technological disruption.
Examples of research questions include, but are not limited to, the following:
- How do entrepreneurs use AI tools to enhance or automate opportunity recognition?
- How can disruptive technologies be used to determine venture feasibility?
- What new forms of venture creation and competitive advantage emerge from disruptive technologies?
- How do startups develop resilience and adaptability during technological disruption?
- In what ways can disruptive technologies democratize or restrict entrepreneurial access and success?
- How do ethical and regulatory constraints shape entrepreneurial experimentation with emerging technologies?
- How do dynamic capabilities evolve in data-intensive or automation-driven entrepreneurial environments?
The Special Issue welcomes a diverse set of scholarly approaches, including quantitative studies (large datasets, experiments, surveys, and analytics), qualitative research (case studies, interviews, and ethnographies), mixed-methods designs, conceptual or theory-building articles, systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses, and practice-oriented studies that provide actionable insights for entrepreneurs and policymakers.
Dr. Antonina Bauman
Dr. Carol Heitman-Lucy
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- AI
- entrepreneurship
- innovation
- disruptive technologies
- creative environments
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