Adaptive Digital Entrepreneurship and Social Harmony: Pathways to Peace-Oriented Inclusive Growth

Abstract

Adaptive Digital Entrepreneurship (ADE) is a new concept that combines digital innovation with socio-institutional flexibility to help lift people out of poverty and promote inclusive development. Thus far, most studies on digital entrepreneurship have focused on its economic impacts, while its contribution to social harmony and peace-oriented growth is still inadequately theorized. This paper performs a systematic literature review following PRISMA guidelines, synthesizing interdisciplinary work published between 2020 and 2025. Through combining adaptive systems theory, social capital theory, the capability approach, and institutional theory, this paper puts forward a multi-level conceptual framework that connects ADE with social harmony. It focuses on the main channels through which ADE produces the features of cohesive and inclusive societies, such as digital inclusion, trust-building, and economic stabilization supported by institutions. Still, the article also stresses the limitations and reveals the dark sides of digital entrepreneurship, e.g. the monopolization of platforms and labor insecurity. By combining technology, social, and institutional aspects, this study broadens the theoretical limits of entrepreneurship research and advocates that ADE can be an important strategic tool to bring about peace-oriented inclusive growth. The results give practical suggestions for policymakers and practitioners and also lay down a well-organized plan for future empirical research.