Contextual Embeddedness of Entrepreneurship

Edited by Mirela Xheneti, Professor, Strategy and Marketing Department, University of Sussex Business School, UK, Sílvia Costa, Assistant Professor, Department of Innovation Management & Strategy, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, Jarna Heinonen, Professor of Entrepreneurship, School of Economics, University of Turku, Finland and Agnieszka Kurczewska, Associate Professor, University of Lodz, Poland and Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

‘The significance of context and embeddedness, and their intersections, are central concepts to our understanding of entrepreneurial behaviour and how this varies between multiple locations and over time. This edited book presents groundbreaking, empirical research from leading authors that addresses the role of place and institutional and digital embeddedness. The chapters offer detailed research, marshalling a variety of evidence to make links between what goes on inside the enterprise and the contexts in which they are situated. Collectively, the book illuminates the ways in which different levels of context and embeddedness shape entrepreneurial processes and, in doing so, makes a significant contribution to our knowledge and theorising on entrepreneurship.’

• Contents:1 An introduction to Contextual embeddedness of entrepreneurship 1Mirela Xheneti, Sílvia Dos Santos Fernandes Costa,Jarna Heinonen and Agnieszka KurczewskaPART I PLACE EMBEDDEDNESS2 Surviving on the island: linking firm survival andcontextual factors in a peripheral region 12Youssouf Merouani, Marcus Box, Tommy LarssonSegerlind and Paulina Rytkönen3 Entrepreneurial micro-ecosystems: a study onconnectedness and collaboration in the edtech community 32Anette Kairikko, Spinder Dhaliwal and Luca Cacciolatti4 Deconstructing how a sustainable business model shapesvalue within a territorial ecosystem 53François Gravié-Plandé and Martine Hlady-Rispal5 The evolution of an organizational form from socialenterprise to territory enterprise 69Romain Slitine and Didier ChabaudPART II INSTITUTIONAL AND DIGITAL EMBEDDEDNESS6 Comparative cases from Portuguese social innovationpublic policy 89Irene Ciccarino7 Motivation behind alternative growth modes in SMEs:a systematic literature review 107Daria Hakola and Bhavesh Sarna8 The role of external crises in international SMEs’ businessmodels: an institution-based view 137Susanne Durst, Lasse Torkkeli and Antti Ainamo9 I love to write and create. Can I earn money doing it?Entrepreneurial process of bloggers 154Julita E. Wasilczuk and Jarna HeinonenIndex