Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A Conceptual Framework for the Professional Service Field
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In: Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2017, No. 1, 133863, 2017.
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T1 - Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
T2 - A Conceptual Framework for the Professional Service Field
AU - Reihlen, Markus
AU - Seckler, Christoph
AU - Werr, Andreas
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Although there is agreement on the role of the client in the innovation process in professional service firms (PSF), other actors have not been systematically integrated into theory building on the professional service innovation. Drawing on the entrepreneurial ecosystem literature, we develop an entrepreneurial ecosystem framework for the PSF field. The conceptual framework describes and explains the key aspects of the PSF entrepreneurial ecosystem, as well as its dynamics. This article contributes by shifting the debate about professional service innovation with a focus on the professional service firm and its clients to consider the broader entrepreneurial ecosystem of PSFs. We conclude by discussing future research opportunities on entrepreneurial ecosystems in the PSF field.
AB - Although there is agreement on the role of the client in the innovation process in professional service firms (PSF), other actors have not been systematically integrated into theory building on the professional service innovation. Drawing on the entrepreneurial ecosystem literature, we develop an entrepreneurial ecosystem framework for the PSF field. The conceptual framework describes and explains the key aspects of the PSF entrepreneurial ecosystem, as well as its dynamics. This article contributes by shifting the debate about professional service innovation with a focus on the professional service firm and its clients to consider the broader entrepreneurial ecosystem of PSFs. We conclude by discussing future research opportunities on entrepreneurial ecosystems in the PSF field.
KW - Management studies
KW - Conceptual framework
KW - entrepreneurial ecosystem
KW - Professional service firm
KW - Entrepreneurship
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85046490895&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5465/AMBPP.2017.174
DO - 10.5465/AMBPP.2017.174
M3 - Conference article in journal
VL - 2017
JO - Academy of Management Proceedings
JF - Academy of Management Proceedings
SN - 0065-0668
IS - 1
M1 - 133863
ER -