Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A Gender Perspective

✍ Scribed by Banu Ozkazanc-Pan, Susan Clark Muntean

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 268
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Based on extensive fieldwork, this book demonstrates how gender is an organizing principle of entrepreneurial ecosystems and makes a difference in how ecosystem resources are assembled and how they can be accessed. By bringing visibility to how ecosystem actors are heterogeneous across identities, interactions and experiences, the book highlights the role and complexity of individual, organizational, and institutional factors working in concert to create and maintain gendered inequities. Entrepreneurial Ecosystems provides research-driven insights around effective organizational practices and policies aimed at remedying gendered and intersectional inequalities associated with entrepreneurship activities and economic growth. Proposing a typology of four ecosystem identities, it highlights how some might be more amenable and organized towards gender inclusion and change, while others may be much more difficult to change, reorganize and restructure. It offers scholars, students, practitioners and policymakers insights about gender in relation to analyzing entrepreneurial ecosystems and for fostering inclusive economic development policies.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Contents
List of Tables
Preface
1 Introduction
1.1 The Growth of Entrepreneurship
1.2 Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
1.3 Entrepreneurship Meets Pandemic Meets Blacks Lives Matter
1.4 On Gender and Entrepreneurship
1.5 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Brief Overview and Gender-Lens Approach
1.6 Overview of Book and Contributions to Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Scholarship
1.6.1 Chapter 1: Introduction
1.6.2 Chapter 2: Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: An Overview
1.6.3 Chapter 3: Understanding Gender and Inclusion in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
1.6.4 Chapter 4: Individual-Level Dynamics: Beyond Motivation, Identity, and Networks
1.6.5 Chapter 5: Organization-Level Dynamics: Practices and Policies
1.6.6 Chapter 6: Institution-Level Dynamics: Institutions and Sociocultural Gender Norms
1.6.7 Chapter 7: Intersectional Analysis
1.6.8 Chapter 8: Inclusive Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Economic Development
References
2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: An Overview
2.1 Introduction
2.2 An Overview of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: From Transaction Cost Economics to Clusters
2.2.1 New Institutional Economics and Economic Sociology: Brief Overview
2.2.2 Cluster Theory
2.3 Core Concepts in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Research
2.4 Making Space for Gender in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
References
3 Understanding Gender and Inclusion in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Sex, Gender, and Gender Relations
3.3 Feminist Perspectives: Organizations
3.4 Feminist Perspectives: Entrepreneurship
3.5 Gender and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
3.6 Beliefs, Assumptions, and Ideologies in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
3.7 Case Study: WeWork
3.8 Theoretically Guided Frameworks for Inclusion
3.9 Conclusion
References
4 Individual-Level Dynamics: Beyond Motivation, Identity, and Networks
4.1 Overview of Boston
4.2 Vignettes
4.3 Analysis and Discussion
4.4 Social Capital: A Feminist Approach
4.5 Conclusion
References
5 Organizational-Level Dynamics: Practices and Policies
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The Role of Intermediary Organizations in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
5.3 Ecosystem Meso-Level Comparison of Organizations: Boston, St. Louis, and Asheville
5.3.1 Boston
5.3.2 St. Louis
5.3.3 Asheville
5.3.3.1 Masculine Advantages and Gendered Expectations
5.3.3.2 Denial of Gender as Being Relevant Here
5.3.3.3 Annoyance over Pressures to Be Diverse
5.3.3.4 Updates and Conclusion: Asheville
5.4 Discussion
References
6 Gendering Institutions and Institutional Analysis
6.1 Brief Overview of Institutional Analysis in Relation to Entrepreneurship
6.2 Gendered Institutional Environments and Impacts on Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
6.3 Ecosystem Identity: Gender and Institutional Factors
6.4 Conclusion
References
7 Intersectional Analysis: Gender, Race, and Immigrant Status in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
7.1 Another Boston
7.1.1 Gender, Race, Immigrant Status, and Entrepreneurship
7.1.2 Gender, Race, and Organizations
7.1.3 G|Code: Rethinking Entrepreneurial Ecosystems from the Ground Up
References
8 Holistic Solutions for Inclusive Economic Development through Entrepreneurship
8.1 Arguments for Gender Equity
8.2 Individual Strategies: Lean In and Its Limits
8.3 Organization-Level Efforts toward Gender Inclusion
8.4 Societal-Level Efforts: Gender-Inclusive Economic Development Policy
8.4.1 Interventions in Workplace Gender Equality: Exemplars and Lessons Learned
8.4.2 Interventions into Gender Equality in Entrepreneurship
8.5 Bringing It All Together: Building Inclusive Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
8.6 New Directions for Theorizing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
References
Index