Craig Mitchell
Assistant head Entrepreneurship, Department of Business Administration
Mixed embeddedness and entrepreneurship beyond new venture creation : Opportunity tensions in the case of reregulated public markets
Author
Summary, in English
The mixed embeddedness (ME) perspective offers a holistic approach to understanding entrepreneurship as embedded in a myriad of contexts. Alone, however, it is not capable of explaining the dynamic interrelations between entrepreneurship and opportunity structures beyond venture start-up. We offer a synthesis between ME and the dynamic states approach, using the concept of opportunity tension to explore the recursive interplay between entrepreneurial agency and opportunity structures. The integrated approach is applied to, and developed by drawing upon, the case of ethnic minority entrepreneurship in the changing Swedish welfare state following customer choice reform. We explore opportunity tensions that arise during start-up, growth and exit for two firms that provide care for the elderly in public quasi-markets. We develop concepts that account for different patterns of embeddedness and opportunity tensions as well as bottom-up effects of entrepreneurship in terms of reregulation and conclude that the interplay amounts to a paradox of ethnicity.
Department/s
- Department of Business Administration
- Entrepreneurship
Publishing year
2023
Language
English
Pages
121-151
Publication/Series
International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship
Volume
41
Issue
2
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Topic
- Business Administration
Keywords
- dynamic states
- ethnicity paradox
- mixed embeddedness
- opportunity tension
- reregulation
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0266-2426