Abstract
Digital transformation has profoundly affected entrepreneurship in supply chains. SMEs and micro entrepreneurial firms are able to start up their business and join larger supply chain networks, enabled by ‘common’ resources provided by platforms. How China’s supply chains evolved, especially how knowledge flows changed from intra-organization to inter-organization supporting entrepreneurship, is the focus of this study. This paper uses a longitudinal case of China’s supply chains over the past twenty years with four embedded cases to investigate knowledge flows in entrepreneurship and roles played by different types of platforms (regional clusters and digital platforms). Social networks and human interactions, mediated by regional clusters, play a critical role in tacit knowledge transfer beyond organizational boundaries in supply chains. In digital ecosystems, system-level features, such as digital infrastructure, enable knowledge sharing and facilitate transactions among strangers. Understanding the distinctive role of platforms in entrepreneurship requires recourse to their antecedents and alternatives.
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