TY - GEN
T1 - Necessary support or unexpected inhibitor: government-led initiatives in entrepreneurial ecosystems
AU - Harima, Jan
AU - Cho, Sunghwan
N1 - DOI not yet working - 10.5465/AMBPP.2022.18087
PY - 2022/8/1
Y1 - 2022/8/1
N2 - Recently, entrepreneurial ecosystems have become a trending topic for entrepreneurship scholars and regional policymakers worldwide. Aiming at developing their regional economies, politicians are keen to building a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem. While there is a consensus that policymakers play essential roles in early evolutionary stages of entrepreneurial ecosystems, the literature on entrepreneurial ecosystems offers limited knowledge about how government-led ecosystem-building initiatives influence the emergence and long-term development of entrepreneurial ecosystems. To address this research gap, this study conceptualizes entrepreneurial ecosystems as meta-organizations and explores how ecosystem-building initiatives by public organizations influence power dynamics within the ecosystem and how it changes the meta-organizational strategic aims and evolutionary path of the system. By analyzing two entrepreneurial ecosystems, this study reveals how activities of government agencies in entrepreneurial ecosystems shape their governance structure and impact their evolution.
AB - Recently, entrepreneurial ecosystems have become a trending topic for entrepreneurship scholars and regional policymakers worldwide. Aiming at developing their regional economies, politicians are keen to building a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem. While there is a consensus that policymakers play essential roles in early evolutionary stages of entrepreneurial ecosystems, the literature on entrepreneurial ecosystems offers limited knowledge about how government-led ecosystem-building initiatives influence the emergence and long-term development of entrepreneurial ecosystems. To address this research gap, this study conceptualizes entrepreneurial ecosystems as meta-organizations and explores how ecosystem-building initiatives by public organizations influence power dynamics within the ecosystem and how it changes the meta-organizational strategic aims and evolutionary path of the system. By analyzing two entrepreneurial ecosystems, this study reveals how activities of government agencies in entrepreneurial ecosystems shape their governance structure and impact their evolution.
UR - https://aom.org/research/publishing-with-aom/author-resources/open-access
UR - https://aom.org/events/annual-meeting/past-annual-meetings/2022-creating-a-better-world-together
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Academy of Management Proceedings
BT - Academy of Management Proceedings
A2 - Taneja, Sonia
PB - Academy of Management
T2 - 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Y2 - 5 August 2022 through 9 August 2022
ER -