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The tortoise, the hare, and the hybrid: effects of prior employment on the development of an entrepreneurial ecosystem

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  • Mary Donegan
  • Allison Forbes
  • Paige Clayton
  • Alyse Polly
  • Maryann Feldman
  • Nichola Lowe

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Prior employment imprints nascent entrepreneurs with logics for organizing startups. Within a regional ecosystem, entrepreneurs with different employment backgrounds pursue alternative entrepreneurial pathways, each generating distinct, though complementary, regional impacts. By analyzing diverse pre-entrepreneurial employment experiences, no one pathway leads to superior firm performance; prior industry experience generates strong early performance that tapers off, while prior academic experience engenders slow, steady, long-lasting growth. Our approach is well-suited for theorizing ecosystem development and generating policy recommendations in support of ecosystem diversity.

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  • Mary Donegan & Allison Forbes & Paige Clayton & Alyse Polly & Maryann Feldman & Nichola Lowe, 2019. "The tortoise, the hare, and the hybrid: effects of prior employment on the development of an entrepreneurial ecosystem," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 28(4), pages 899-920.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:indcch:v:28:y:2019:i:4:p:899-920.
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    Cited by:

    1. Daniel Sunghwan Cho & Paul Ryan & Giulio Buciuni, 2022. "Evolutionary entrepreneurial ecosystems: a research pathway," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 58(4), pages 1865-1883, April.
    2. Paige Clayton, 2024. "Different outcomes for different founders? Local organizational sponsorship and entrepreneurial finance," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 62(1), pages 23-62, January.
    3. Roberta Andrade & Paulo Pinheiro & Luísa Carvalho & Raysa Rocha, 2022. "Building a Bridge: Knowledge Sharing Flows into Entrepreneurial Ecosystems," JOItmC, MDPI, vol. 8(3), pages 1-18, August.
    4. Modic, Dolores & Suklan, Jana, 2022. "Multidimensional experience and performance of highly skilled administrative staff: Evidence from a technology transfer office," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 51(10).

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    JEL classification:

    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • L65 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - Chemicals; Rubber; Drugs; Biotechnology; Plastics
    • R11 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity

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