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1. Introduction: Organizational Theories and an Overview of Research Findings -- 2. Research Methods -- 3. Higher Education's Motives for Corporate Support -- 4. Corporate Motives for Supporting Higher Education -- 5. Ethics, Behavioral Expectations, and Realities -- 6. Contexts for Inter-organizational Engagement: Societal Concerns, Government Behavior, and Other Findings -- 7. The Complexity of Inter-organizational Relationships: Cross-unit Analysis, Discussion, and Implications

"Entrepreneurial Communities and Ecosystems: Case Study Insights aims to provide applied examples that embody the theories, principles, and processes that contribute to empowering everyday entrepreneurial communities and ecosystems. Relying on a diversity of narratives from a wide range of entrepreneurial communities, entrepreneurial ecosystems, and organizations, this book presents a collection of case studies that take the reader inside the minds of leaders who are working to empower entrepreneurs and build entrepreneurial ecosystems and entrepreneurial communities-sometimes from scratch. The book features research and stories from entrepreneurs, development agencies, entrepreneurial support and assistance organizations (i.e. feeders and supports), governments, and involved citizens and local leaders in their quest to make their communities more entrepreneuring. The book presents an analytic frame through which the case studies are cross-analyzed, providing "meta-guidelines" for pursuing a broad range of strategies for supporting local and regional entrepreneurial action. This research volume is equally useful as an undergraduate or graduate text on the sociology of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship as it is a field guide for ecosystem builders, policy makers, nonprofits, and entrepreneurship and social researchers worldwide"--

"Entrepreneurial Communities and Ecosystems: Theories in Culture, Empowerment, and Leadership examines the deep sociocultural dynamics supporting effective and emergent entrepreneurial ecosystems and communities for a new generation of ecosystem builders and researchers. The book provides current theories and discussion with relevant examples regarding culture, empowerment, and leadership in entrepreneurship to build more entrepreneurial communities anywhere, beginning with any set of local advantages. It clarifies the role of community in building an entrepreneurial ecosystem, and expands the theory on how entrepreneurial communities and ecosystems differ, and how they relate. The book also illuminates the often avoided discussion about power with special attention to diversity with examples of black, women, and LGBTQA+ entrepreneurship; provides a deep dive into the range of formal and informal education framed as entreprenology; ties the importance of entrepreneurship and entrepreneuring to resources available at the community, state, and national levels; and introduces a new concept - omnipreneurship - which puts the skills of entrepreneurship in the service of global benefit and everyday action. This research volume will be equally useful as an undergraduate or graduate text on the sociology of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship as it is a field guide for ecosystem builders, policy makers, nonprofits, and entrepreneurship and social researchers worldwide"--

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- An introduction to entrepreneurial community development / Michael W-P Fortunato and Morgan R. Clevenger -- Perceptions of entrepreneurs and community : from historical roots to a contemporary kaleidoscope / Morgan R. Clevenger -- Models of entrepreneurial community and ecosystem development / Michael W-P Fortunato -- Understanding the impact of culture in entrepreneurship / Nicole D. Breazeale and Ronald J. Hustedde -- Transformational leadership to build an entrepreneurial community / Morgan R. Clevenger and Chao Miao -- The value and process of social networking for entrepreneurs / Morgan R. Clevenger, Michael W-P Fortunato, and Kathleen Houlihan -- High- and low-entrepreneurial communities : a multiple case study / Michael W-P Fortunato -- Analysis of the case study data: considerations for studying or launching an entrepreneurial community or ecosystem / Michael W-P Fortunato -- Entrepreneurial community success : psychological characteristics, experiences, and -- Identities / Ellen E. Newell -- Leaping cultural and leadership boundaries : catalyzing entrepreneurial communities / Michael W-P Fortunato and Morgan R. Clevenger -- Index