Fractal Characteristics of Discontinuous Growth of Digital Company: An Entrepreneurial Bricolage Perspective

Table 2

Summary of the process used to obtain information about the case company.

Data source	Data type	Interviewee/main content	Number of items
Company information compilation	Public interviews and external speeches by executives	Videos and textual material of ByteDance executives	35,000 words
	Direct materials	Douyin and Toutiao’s product development information, ByteDance official websites, forums, media reports, etc.	10.1 million words
	Newspapers and periodicals	Search results from China Academic Journal’s Network and China’s Core Newspaper Full-Text Database (online version)	More than 600 studies
Semistructured interview	In-depth interview	Company executives, employees in various departments, and key stakeholders	9 participants
	Informal interview	Experts in this field and other relevant people in the case company	Several participants
On-the-spot investigation	—	Observations of ByteDance’s workplaces and project meetings	2 times