Entrepreneurship in emerging economies

• Author: Brian Wu,Maw‐Der Foo,Balagopal Vissa
• Date: 01 September 2020
• Published date: 01 September 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1363

SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLE

Entrepreneurship in emerging economies

Maw-Der Foo

1

| Balagopal Vissa

2

| Brian Wu

3

1

Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

2

INSEAD, Singapore

3

Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Correspondence

Balagopal Vissa, INSEAD, 1, Ayer Rajah

Avenue, Singapore 138676.

Email: balagopal.vissa@insead.edu

Abstract

Research Summary: The economic center of gravity is

shifting from mature markets to emerging regions. This shift

provides a good opportunity to broaden and deepen our

theoretical base of concepts and frameworks because

emerging and mature regions differ significantly in their

institutional regimes. Hence entrepreneurial resource mobi-

lization in emerging regions could differ significantly

because of theoretical differences in actors' action logics

and resource governance. The eight papers in this special

issue provide new empirical evidence on antecedents and

consequences of entrepreneurial resource mobilization

efforts in emerging regions. Here, we briefly summarize the

state of the field, introduce the articles by situating them in

a novel theoretical framework on entrepreneurial resource

mobilization, and finally using our framework, we suggest

opportunities for future research on entrepreneurship in

emerging regions.

Managerial Summary: Entrepreneurship research has

advanced mainly using empirical data from the developed

economies of North America and Western Europe. Because

emerging economies differ markedly in their institutional

development from developed economies, this prior research

is less likely to be useful to understand entrepreneurship in

emerging regions - which are increasingly crucial compo-

nents of the global economy. This special issue contains

Received: 20 July 2020 Accepted: 20 July 2020 Published on: 11 August 2020

DOI: 10.1002/sej.1363

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