Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
A Gender Perspective

Analyzes entrepreneurial ecosystems though the lens of gender to identify myriad individual, organizational, and institutional factors that create gendered inequities.

Banu Ozkazanc-Pan (Author), Susan Clark Muntean (Author)

9781316519431, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 21 October 2021

215 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 2 cm, 0.54 kg

'Prof Dr Banu Ozkazanc-Pan and Prof Dr Susan Clark Muntean offer a truly thought provoking view on how entrepreneurial ecosystems are highly gendered and racialized. This book excels in providing a critical, interdisciplinary as well as empirically grounded contribution to the field. Particularly its implications for in- and exclusion make it a must read for both scholars and policy makers.' Dr. Caroline Essers, Associate Professor Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University

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.

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. Institution-level dynamics: institutions and sociocultural gender norms
7. Intersectional analysis
8. Inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems and economic development
Index.

Subject Areas: Development economics & emerging economies [KCM], Economic theory & philosophy [KCA], Economics [KC], Sociology [JHB], Sociology & anthropology [JH]