... and myth maintenance intersect within entrepreneurial ecosystems. It identifies three backlash mechanisms – othering, silencing and trivialising – aimed at delegitimising the activist movement and limiting its reach. It shows that the constitution of an activist movement and the social imaginary it defends...

... and for investigating women entrepreneurs in non-Western contexts. This study examines networking within South Africa's entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) to contextualize theory across diverse cultural and socio-economic settings, thereby deepening understanding of the compounded barriers faced by black women...

... Development director 81 Green SME 8 Development director 51 Green SME 9 Director France 43 Total length of the interviews 31 h 24 min Source(s): Authors’ own work Environmental opportunities International opportunities Entrepreneurial ecosystem Internationalization support...

... to enhance entrepreneurial ecosystems and drive sustainable innovation. Nor Yusup can be contacted at: n.yusup@mmu.ac.uk Emerging evidence suggests that UICs success depends on social capital and the quality of interactions within networks, groups and individuals. Trust, commitment and mutual...

... of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at Link to the terms of the CC BY 4.0 licence . Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurial ecosystem Local economic development...

...Jonathan Mukiza Kansheba; Clavis Nwehfor Fubah; Andreas Wald Purpose New ventures often encounter legitimation challenges due to their liability of newness and foreignness. This particularly applies to the legitimacy beyond the local entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE). The present study examines how...

...Mahmud Akhter Shareef; Yogesh K. Dwivedi; Md. Shazzad Hosain; Mihalis Giannakis; Jashim Uddin Ahmed Purpose This study has conducted exploratory research to understand who should comprise the members of a resilient supply chain for promoting an entrepreneurial ecosystem of a startup project...

...Christian Lechner; Servane Delanoë-Gueguen; Gaël Gueguen Purpose This study contributes to a better understanding of the important actor-specific, micro-level legitimacy dimensions in dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs). Design/methodology/approach Using an embedded case study approach...

...Esteban Lafuente; Suyen Alonso-Ubieta; Juan Carlos Leiva; Ronald Mora-Esquivel Purpose This study evaluates the relationship between the entrepreneurial ecosystem and business competitiveness in four different contexts (i.e. France, Spain, Hungary and Costa Rica). Design/methodology/approach...

...Carson Duan; Bernice Kotey; Kamaljeet Sandhu Purpose The purpose of this theoretical paper is to explore how immigrants' home-country entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) factors impact transnational immigrant entrepreneurs (TIEs). The paper draws on the dual embeddedness and transnational...

...Andrei Alexander Lux; Flávio Romero Macau; Kerry Ann Brown Purpose This paper extends entrepreneurial ecosystems theory by testing how aspects of the local business environment affect individual entrepreneurs' ability to translate their personal resources into firm performance. Design...

... of enterprises has been identified as a deliberate choice of women entrepreneurs, the purpose of this paper is to illustrate how the institutional environment of an entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) fosters the gender gap in entrepreneurial growth intention. The mediating role of the perceived institutional...