Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

A Gender Perspective

Banu Ozkazanc-Pan, Susan Clark Muntean

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781316519431
• eBook ISBN:
  9781009021289
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Entrepreneurship
• Index: Business

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
• 2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: An Overview
• 3 Understanding Gender and Inclusion in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
• 4 Individual-Level Dynamics: Beyond Motivation, Identity, and Networks
• 5 Organizational-Level Dynamics: Practices and Policies
• 6 Gendering Institutions and Institutional Analysis
• 7 Intersectional Analysis: Gender, Race, and Immigrant Status in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
• 8 Holistic Solutions for Inclusive Economic Development through Entrepreneurship
• Index