Entrepreneurial ecosystems in an interconnected world: emergence, governance and digitalization

Artikel

Achieving and sustaining growth depends on the effective work of multiple and interconnected actors—such as e.g. governments, the private sector, society, universities, entrepreneurs and many others—who build an ecosystem, i.e. a social and economic environment for innovative and entrepreneurial endeavors. The underlying idea is that firms do not just compete with each other through well-developed stand-alone strategies to achieve advantages over their rivals, uniquely relying on their own resources, knowledge, and capabilities, but rather base their business models on shared resources, network externalities, knowledge spill-overs, local endowments, and governmental support. This introductory article offers a wide array of topics, methods and fields of application within the field of entrepreneurial ecosystems as well as a theorizing about potential fruitful future areas of research within the field, concentrating on legitimation and identification processes in ecosystems, possibly culminating towards a meta-identity of the ecosystem.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: Review of Managerial Science ; ISSN: 1863-6691 ; Volume: 16 ; Year: 2021 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 1-14 ; Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Management ; Business Administration: General ; Business Administration: Other ; Business Economics: General
• Subject: Entrepreneurship ; Entrepreneurial ; Innovation ; Ecosystems ; Digitalization

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Bouncken, Ricarda B. ; Kraus, Sascha
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Springer
• (where): Berlin, Heidelberg
• (when): 2021

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1007/s11846-021-00444-1
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET