DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EMERGING ECONOMIES: AN MIS CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR DIGITAL VALUE CREATION IN NIGERIA
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Abstract
Despite accelerating investments in enterprise digital transformation, empirical evidence regarding the link between digital technology adoption and sustainable competitive advantage remains fragmented and inconclusive. Management Information Systems (MIS) scholarship has traditionally prioritised the acquisition of technological assets and the development of data infrastructure, leaving a critical theoretical gap in understanding the internal mechanisms by which firms systematically convert digital information abundance into strategic entrepreneurial action. This gap is particularly noticeable in emerging economies like Nigeria, where rapid, platform-driven digitalisation coexists with systemic institutional uncertainty, infrastructural constraints, and acute resource instability. To address these theoretical and contextual limitations, this paper develops Digital Entrepreneurial Intelligence(DEI) as a novel, higher-order organisational dynamic capability. We create a thorough, multifaceted conceptual framework by combining viewpoints from Dynamic Capabilities Theory, Organisational Information Processing Theory (OIPT), the Knowledge-Based View (KBV), Absorptive Capacity Theory, and Entrepreneurial Cognition. Environmental Scanning Intelligence, Digital Analytics Intelligence (DAI), Opportunity Recognition Intelligence, Innovation Evaluation Intelligence, and Adaptive Intelligence are the five distinct dimensions that make up DEI. The study develops a theoretically based model that illustrates how management skills and digital information resources drive the growth of DEI, which in turn improves firm-level innovation capability and long-term organisational competitiveness. We conclude by delivering a rigorous future empirical validation roadmap, which includes exactstatistical power analysis calculation for structural equation modelling and comprehensive psychometric scale development phases.