Regional governments and opportunity entrepreneurship in underdeveloped institutional environments: An entrepreneurial ecosystem perspective |
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| Institution: | 1. Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China;2. Department of Management, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia;3. Department of Management, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia;1. School of Business and Management, Francis Bancroft Building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK;2. School of Public Policy and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, PR China;1. Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, United States of America;2. College of Engineering, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, United States of America;3. Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, United States of America;4. Paul H. O''Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, United States of America;5. Institute for Business Innovation, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, United States of America;6. Executive Chairman, Berkeley Research Group |
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| Abstract: | The role of regional governments in fostering opportunity entrepreneurship has received increasing attention from both academics and practitioners. Drawing on research on entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE), this study provides a more analytical and holistic account of the supportive role of regional governments in underdeveloped institutional environments and their interactions with other key elements in regional EEs. I propose that in underdeveloped institutional environments, a regional government which is able to perform its core function of delivering public and social services is positively associated with the growth of opportunity entrepreneurship. This effect becomes stronger in regions with more market-based economies, higher education institutions (HEIs), an entrepreneurial culture, and social entrepreneurship. Empirical results based on entrepreneurship data at the provincial level in China between 1993 and 2013 provide strong support for the hypotheses. This study contributes to the literature on EE by providing more systematic evidence from underdeveloped institutional environments, and has policy implications for promoting opportunity entrepreneurship. |
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