Entrepreneurial Communities and Ecosystems

Morgan R. Clevenger, EdD, MBA is Associate Professor of Management at Hiram College, Ohio, USA, as well as Professor of Management and Post-doctoral Fellow in Corporate Social Responsibility and Global Business Ethics with Monarch Business School, Zug, Switzerland.Michael W-P Fortunato, PhD is an internationally published scholar, researcher, author, entrepreneur, community developer, educator, public speaker, and innovator, and CFO and Founding Partner of Texas-based community consulting group Creative Insight Community Development (CICD).

• 1. An Introduction to Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Entrepreneurial Communities to Empower Entrepreneurs, 2. Revisiting Entrepreneurial Communities, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, and Ecosystem Logic, 3. An Ecology of Entrepreneurship: A Review of Concepts, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, and Entrepreneurial Communities from the Literature, 4. The Power of Entrepreneurs and Social Systems: Driving Forces for Empowerment, Mitigating Disempowerment, and Advancing Equity, 5. Entreprenology of Formal and Informal Education, Co-Curricular and Extra-Curricular Programming, Vocational and Technical Entrepreneuring, and Learning from Failure to Support and Empower Entrepreneurs, 6. Avoiding Anomie: Diffusion of Support Resources for the Empowerment of Entrepreneurs, 7. Beyond Bureaucracies and Bourgeoisie of Regional, State, and National Economic Development: Framework Conditions, Policy, and the Interplay of Support Organizations, 8. Omnipreneurship, 9. Conclusions, 9. Conclusion: Final Thoughts on Culture, Empowerment, and Leadership to Support Entrepreneurs

"Thought leaders in policy and business are turning to entrepreneurial ecosystems to deliver sustainable prosperity in their entrepreneurial community. This important and pathbreaking new book provides a blueprint of what exactly constitutes an entrepreneurial ecosystem v an entrepreneurial community, how they can be nurtured and developed to ignite economic and social vitality, and how it can be sustained over time. This book holds the key to unlocking the hidden potential of people, business processes, and places." David B. Audretsch, PhD, Distinguished Professor and Ameritech Chair of Economic Development, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA"Simply put, there are no timelier and important topics in the field of Entrepreneurship than the multifaceted roles played by communities of entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship ecosystems, as well as empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs. Kudos to Morgan Clevenger and Michael Fortunato for their brilliant volume illuminating the scope, activity, breadth, and depth of both thought and practice in these critical areas. Entrepreneurial Communities and Ecosystems: Theories in Culture, Empowerment, and Leadership is must reading for educators, practitioners, advisors, and policy makers." Charles H. Matthews, PhD, Distinguished Teaching Professor and Founder, U.C. Center for Entrepreneurship and Carl H. Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA