Beyond the entrepreneurial ecosystem and mixed embeddedness approaches: A review and research agenda’,

Date
2016-11
Authors
Gast, A.
Vershinina, Natalia
Woldesenbet, K.
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Publisher
ISBE
Peer reviewed
Yes
Abstract
The research field of entrepreneurship is becoming increasingly vast and a large amount of new theories and approaches develop annually. With the growth of this research stream it sub-research fields such as the disciplines of ethnic entrepreneurship and immigrant entrepreneurship expand as well. Due to the increase in theories, it can easily be forgotten to test certain frameworks for their interdisciplinary validity or similar theories in different subfields emerge without a comparison to already existing theories. In this case the researcher has found two theories that appear to be similar at first glance. These are the mixed embeddedness framework the stems from research in the immigrant entrepreneurship stream and the model of the entrepreneurial ecosystem which is mainly used in the general entrepreneurship literature. In the following the researcher will give a closer insight into both theories and will compare similarities and differences of the two theories in order to determine the extent to which these theories correlate and can be connected.
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Keywords
Mixed Embeddedness, Entrepreneurial ecosystem
Citation
Gast, A., Vershinina, N., and Woldesenbet, K. (2016) Beyond the entrepreneurial ecosystem and mixed embeddedness approaches: A review and research agenda. paper presented at ISBE 2016 Conference, 27-28 October, Paris, France.
Research Institute
Institute for Applied Economics and Social Value (IAESV)
Centre for Enterprise and Innovation (CEI)