The Wiley Handbook of Entrepreneurship

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A Conceptual Model of Social Entrepreneurial Motivation

“…Psychologists are interested in the powerful effects of extrinsic motivations on individuals' intentionality, and have attempted to explain this through 'personality traits, competencies, cognitions, behaviors … that impact new venture creation and success' (Gorgievski and Stephan, 2016, p. 437). Meanwhile, other researchers (Ahmetoglu et al, 2017;Stephan and Drencheva, 2017) aimed to comprehend why some individuals choose to create social ventures and persevere in their mission, even when there is no immediate and significant material reward, by analysing motivations, traits, identities and skills (Gorgievski and Stephan, 2016).…”

Entrepreneurial ecosystems : theory revisited, research agenda and policies

“…Since then, the entrepreneurial ecosystem is an increasingly widespread concept and a number of scholars have defined and referred to the it, such as Malecki (2011Malecki ( , 2018, , Vogel (2013), Stam (2014aStam ( , 2015, Acs, et al (2014), Auerswald (2015), Autio (2017a) or Spigel (2016Spigel ( , 2017, among many others. The concept have been also received remarkable contributions by practitioners as Brad Feld (Feld, 2012), or international institutions such as the World Economic Forum (WEF, 2011;World Economic Forum, 2014).…”