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Paper Number
1631
Paper Type
short
Description
Solopreneur digital ecosystems (SDE) have become increasingly prominent in recent years. SDEs provide solopreneurs with instruments to create their products or services and to run the business independently. Thus, they drive the unbundling of work from employment. As such, they are often linked to the economic growth in disadvantaged communities – help unemployed or less-educated individuals to generate income and access resources that would be impossible to reach otherwise. However, many solopreneurs lack knowledge about the opportunities fostered by SDEs. We take a proactive stance grounded in the design science research paradigm to address this problem. We design a Socio-Technical artifact that helps socially and economically marginalized people from developed countries to benefit from becoming solopreneurs. In this paper, we focus on grounding the research in an important class of problems, defining objectives for the solution, and discussing the design of the artifact, guided by meta-requirements derived from the literature.
Recommended Citation
Bartosiak, Marcin; Piccoli, Gabriele; Palese, Biagio; and Rodriguez, Joaquin, "Supporting Disadvantaged Solopreneurs from Developed Countries in Digital Ecosystem Career Choices. A Design Science Research Approach" (2021). ICIS 2021 Proceedings. 11.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2021/is_future_work/is_future_work/11
Supporting Disadvantaged Solopreneurs from Developed Countries in Digital Ecosystem Career Choices. A Design Science Research Approach
Solopreneur digital ecosystems (SDE) have become increasingly prominent in recent years. SDEs provide solopreneurs with instruments to create their products or services and to run the business independently. Thus, they drive the unbundling of work from employment. As such, they are often linked to the economic growth in disadvantaged communities – help unemployed or less-educated individuals to generate income and access resources that would be impossible to reach otherwise. However, many solopreneurs lack knowledge about the opportunities fostered by SDEs. We take a proactive stance grounded in the design science research paradigm to address this problem. We design a Socio-Technical artifact that helps socially and economically marginalized people from developed countries to benefit from becoming solopreneurs. In this paper, we focus on grounding the research in an important class of problems, defining objectives for the solution, and discussing the design of the artifact, guided by meta-requirements derived from the literature.
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