Raising a start-up with the ecosystem: A practice perspective on support within entrepreneurial ecosystems

Abstract

This study explores a bundle of supporting practices within an entrepreneurial ecosystem through an entrepreneurship as practice approach. Based on grounded theory methodology, we illustrate how different practitioners from an entrepreneurial ecosystem collaborate with team members to support a venture based on shared general understandings of how to participate in ecosystem practices. We contribute to entrepreneurship as practice literature by offering an alternative, practice-based account of the enactment of meaningful entrepreneurial ecosystem support practices beyond formal relationships and market transactions.