Digital Capital as an Opportunity-Enhancer for Employee Corporate Entrepreneurship Decisions

Building on the ability-motivation-opportunity framework, this paper examines the relationship of organizations’ digital capital with employee corporate entrepreneurship decisions and the moderating roles of employee personal initiative and employee digital fluency. Findings from a conjoint experiment with 106 employees show that digital process and knowledge capital positively relate to employee corporate entrepreneurship decisions. In addition, a configuration where high digital process and knowledge capital come together with high levels of personal initiative and digital fluency is particularly supportive for employee corporate entrepreneurial behavior. Digital capital represents an opportunity-enhancing resource that is best leveraged when employees have both the motivation (i.e., personal initiative) and ability (i.e., digital fluency) to use it.