Entrepreneurial Communities and Ecosystems: Theories in Culture, Empowerment, and Leadership examines the deep sociocultural dynamics supporting effective and emergent entrepreneurial ecosystems and communities for a new generation of ecosystem builders and researchers.
The book provides current theories and discussion with relevant examples regarding culture, empowerment, and leadership in entrepreneurship to build more entrepreneurial communities anywhere, beginning with any set of local advantages. It clarifies the role of community in building an entrepreneurial ecosystem, and expands the theory on how entrepreneurial communities and ecosystems differ, and how they relate. The book also illuminates the often avoided discussion about power, with special attention to diversity with examples of Black, women, and LGBTQA+ entrepreneurship; provides a deep dive into the range of formal and informal education framed as entreprenology; ties the importance of entrepreneurship and entrepreneuring to resources available at the community, state, and national levels; and introduces a new concept - omnipreneurship - which puts the skills of entrepreneurship in the service of global benefit and everyday action.
This research volume will be equally useful as an undergraduate or graduate text on the sociology of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship as it is a field guide for ecosystem builders, policy makers, nonprofits, and entrepreneurship and social researchers worldwide.
The book provides current theories and discussion with relevant examples regarding culture, empowerment, and leadership in entrepreneurship to build more entrepreneurial communities anywhere, beginning with any set of local advantages. It clarifies the role of community in building an entrepreneurial ecosystem, and expands the theory on how entrepreneurial communities and ecosystems differ, and how they relate. The book also illuminates the often avoided discussion about power, with special attention to diversity with examples of Black, women, and LGBTQA+ entrepreneurship; provides a deep dive into the range of formal and informal education framed as entreprenology; ties the importance of entrepreneurship and entrepreneuring to resources available at the community, state, and national levels; and introduces a new concept - omnipreneurship - which puts the skills of entrepreneurship in the service of global benefit and everyday action.
This research volume will be equally useful as an undergraduate or graduate text on the sociology of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship as it is a field guide for ecosystem builders, policy makers, nonprofits, and entrepreneurship and social researchers worldwide.
"Thought leaders in policy and business are turning to entrepreneurial ecosystems to deliver sustainable prosperity in their entrepreneurial community. This important and pathbreaking new book provides a blueprint of what exactly constitutes an entrepreneurial ecosystem v an entrepreneurial community, how they can be nurtured and developed to ignite economic and social vitality, and how it can be sustained over time. This book holds the key to unlocking the hidden potential of people, business processes, and places." David B. Audretsch, PhD, Distinguished Professor and Ameritech Chair of Economic Development, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
"Simply put, there are no timelier and important topics in the field of Entrepreneurship than the multifaceted roles played by communities of entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship ecosystems, as well as empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs. Kudos to Morgan Clevenger and Michael Fortunato for their brilliant volume illuminating the scope, activity, breadth, and depth of both thought and practice in these critical areas. Entrepreneurial Communities and Ecosystems: Theories in Culture, Empowerment, and Leadership is must reading for educators, practitioners, advisors, and policy makers." Charles H. Matthews, PhD, Distinguished Teaching Professor and Founder, U.C. Center for Entrepreneurship and Carl H. Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
"Simply put, there are no timelier and important topics in the field of Entrepreneurship than the multifaceted roles played by communities of entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship ecosystems, as well as empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs. Kudos to Morgan Clevenger and Michael Fortunato for their brilliant volume illuminating the scope, activity, breadth, and depth of both thought and practice in these critical areas. Entrepreneurial Communities and Ecosystems: Theories in Culture, Empowerment, and Leadership is must reading for educators, practitioners, advisors, and policy makers." Charles H. Matthews, PhD, Distinguished Teaching Professor and Founder, U.C. Center for Entrepreneurship and Carl H. Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA