From a marketplace of electronics to a digital entrepreneurial ecosystem (DEE): The emergence of a meta‐organization in Zhongguancun, China

Extant studies on digital entrepreneurship have mainly focused on firm‐level characteristics and overlooked the external environment, ie, the digital entrepreneurial ecosystem (DEE). This study intends to fill that gap by exploring how a DEE emerges. We adopt the meta‐organization theory as our theoretical lens and conduct an in‐depth case study at Zhongguancun, a budding DEE often referred to as China's Silicon Valley. Case analysis reveals...