Can digital innovations help reduce suffering? A crowd-based digital innovation framework of compassion venturing

Ann Majchrzak; Dean A. Shepherd

doi:10.1016/j.infoandorg.2021.100338

Can digital innovations help reduce suffering? A crowd-based digital innovation framework of compassion venturing

Ann Majchrzak^*, Dean A. Shepherd

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Management and Organisation, Helsinki

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The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has been a devastating crisis affecting the physical, social, and financial well-being of people the world over. Unlike business-as-usual, crises create unique context conditions in which to study digital innovation. Crises can create widespread suffering. Crises can also trigger the creation of “compassionate ventures” started by emergent entrepreneurs, who, by being themselves victims of adversity, are driven to start ventures to alleviate people's suffering. In this essay, we appropriate the literature from management and entrepreneurship on compassionate venturing to suggest a framework for helping to clarify distinctions in the ways in which digital innovation may emerge during crises.

Original language	English
Article number	100338
Peer-reviewed scientific journal	Information and Organization
Volume	31
Issue number	1
ISSN	1471-7727
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infoandorg.2021.100338
Publication status	Published - 03.2021
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article - refereed

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512 Business and Management
Compassion ventures
Crowd innovation
Digital

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