Author ORCID Identifier
Srinivas Subramanya: 0009-0006-6345-7405
Satish Krishnan: 0000-0002-5538-4764
Pramukh Nanjundaswamy Vasist: 0000-0001-9921-4196
Abstract
Entrepreneurial policies are crucial for a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem. However, disinformation poses a challenge to these policymaking efforts, with vested political interests playing a pivotal role in steering disinformation campaigns. Despite the threat, the role of disinformation in shaping governmental policy support and relevance for entrepreneurship remains largely underexplored. To address this gap, we leverage rational choice theory and study how different forms of disinformation affect policy support and relevance through a cross-country analysis. The results suggest a link between political disinformation and governmental policy support and relevance through specific configurations, with the absence of domestic partisan disinformation emerging as a salient but configuration-contingent feature of stronger policy support and relevance. These findings suggest that policymakers must balance investments in countering disinformation with efforts to reinforce growth-oriented policy support and relevance for entrepreneurship.
Recommended Citation
Subramanya, S., Krishnan, S., & Vasist, P. N. (In press). Entrepreneurial Policymaking Amid the Toxic Effects of Political Disinformation on Social Media: A Configural Narrative. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 59, pp-pp. Retrieved from https://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol59/iss1/75
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