Description
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.
Table of Contents
1 An Introduction to Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Entrepreneurial Communities to Empower Entrepreneurs
Morgan R. Clevenger and Michael W-P Fortunato
2 Revisiting Entrepreneurial Communities, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, and Ecosystem Logic
Michael W-P Fortunato and Morgan R. Clevenger
3 An Ecology of Entrepreneurship: A Review of Concepts, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, and Entrepreneurial Communities from the Literature
Morgan R. Clevenger and Chao Miao
4 The Power of Entrepreneurs and Social Systems: Driving Forces for Empowerment, Mitigating Disempowerment, and Advancing Equity
Montressa L. Washington, Jennifer R. Madden, Morgan R. Clevenger, and Chao Miao
5 Entreprenology of Formal and Informal Education, Co-Curricular and Extra-Curricular Programming, Vocational and Technical Entrepreneuring, and Learning from Failure to Support and Empower Entrepreneurs
Morgan R. Clevenger, Marcus I. Crews, Sara L. Cochran, Louise Underdahl, Ronald G. Leach, Jean Perlman, Elizabeth Isele, Norris F. Krueger Jr., Matthew Knight, and Dina Piepoli Udomsak
6 Avoiding Anomie: Diffusion of Support Resources for the Empowerment of Entrepreneurs
Morgan R. Clevenger and Garrett Munro
7 Beyond Bureaucracies and Bourgeoisie of Regional, State, and National Economic Development: Framework Conditions, Policy, and the Interplay of Support Organizations
Morgan R. Clevenger, Michael W-P Fortunato, and Kenneth Okrepkie with Laura Eppler
8 Omnipreneurship
Morgan R. Clevenger and Michael W-P Fortunato
9 Conclusions
Michael W-P Fortunato and Morgan R. Clevenger
