Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: Network Embeddedness, Institutions, and New Venture Growth in China

AbstractEntrepreneurial ecosystems provide a rich context for analyzing entrepreneurial outcomes such as new venture growth. In most entrepreneurship research, influence of context or environment is undermined or controlled. Also, most studies consider either macro- or micro-level factors using single-level analysis, which mute the higher-level influences on new firm growth. To overcome these gaps, we empirically consider macro- and micro-level factors together, and their cross-level interactions to portray the nexus of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial ecosystem in growth of new independent ventures in the various US metros. Our findings provide interesting insights on the moderating effects of prior experiences of founders on ecosystem attributes and firm growth.

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Strategic repertoire variety and new venture growth: The moderating effects of origin and industry dynamism

Strategic Management Journal ◽

10.1002/smj.2103 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 35 (5) ◽

pp. 761-772 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

Bárbara Larrañeta ◽

Shaker A. Zahra ◽

José Luis Galán González

Keyword(s):

New Venture ◽

Moderating Effects ◽

New Venture Growth

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Orchestrating boundaries: The effect of R&D boundary permeability on new venture growth

Journal of Business Venturing ◽

10.1016/j.jbusvent.2018.05.003 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

pp. 63-79 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Robert S. Nason ◽

Johan Wiklund ◽

Alexander McKelvie ◽

Michael Hitt ◽

Wei Yu

Keyword(s):

New Venture ◽

Boundary Permeability ◽

New Venture Growth

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Entrepreneurial Business Ties and New Venture Growth: The Mediating Role of Resource Acquiring, Bundling and Leveraging

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11010244 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 244 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Gang Wang ◽

Linwei Li ◽

Xu Jiang

Keyword(s):

Resource Management ◽

New Ventures ◽

Empirical Support ◽

Mediating Effect ◽

New Venture ◽

Management Perspective ◽

New Venture Growth ◽

Resource Leveraging ◽

Business Ties

Adopting insights from a resource management perspective, this study investigates how entrepreneurs utilize their business ties to promote new venture growth. We propose a multiple mediator model in which different resource management processes (i.e., resource acquiring, resource bundling, and resource leveraging) act as critical mediating mechanisms. We undertook a two-stage survey design, and collected data during the period from 2013 to 2016. Drawing on a longitudinal sample of 229 new ventures in China, we tested the hypotheses through the optimal scaling regression (OSR) analysis. We find empirical support for the mediated effects of entrepreneurial business ties via resource bundling and resource leveraging to promote new venture growth. However, our results find the mediating effect of resource acquiring non-significant. These findings will deepen understanding of the role of entrepreneurial business ties in the new venture growth process and expand resource management perspective into the entrepreneurial field.

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Entrepreneurial education: an entrepreneurial ecosystem approach

Journal of Management & Organization ◽

10.1017/jmo.2020.26 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-21

Author(s):

Delwyn N. Clark ◽

Sophie Reboud ◽

Olivier Toutain ◽

Valérie Ballereau ◽

Tim Mazzarol

Keyword(s):

New Ventures ◽

Ecosystem Approach ◽

New Venture ◽

Entrepreneurial Education ◽

Academic Unit ◽

Entrepreneurial Ecosystem ◽

Macroeconomic Policies ◽

Local Resources ◽

Novel Approach

Abstract How can an entrepreneurial education program simultaneously create entrepreneurial knowledge, skills and competencies, as well as new ventures and jobs? This is a particular challenge for universities that are keen to align with government policies and demonstrate impact. Our paper examines a novel approach to enterprise and entrepreneurship education that integrates training/learning with new venture creation by operating as an entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE). We outline a comprehensive EE framework and apply this model using an exploratory case study of an EE centred around an innovative academic unit called The Entrepreneurial Garden (TEG) at Burgundy School of Business in Dijon, France. TEG offers entrepreneurial education, research and new venture development as an integrated portfolio. This analysis shows how an academic unit can be developed as an EE building from local resources and expertise, aligning with macroeconomic policies and priorities, and leveraging partnerships to provide access to other entrepreneurial players, resources and networks.

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