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2025 AOM Annual Meeting

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DIG Highlight

21065: Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Meets Entrepreneurial Behaviour: Conceptual and Empirical Challenges

Sunday, July 27, 2025
08:30 - 10:00 CEST (GMT+2)
Location: Bella Center: Hall B- B3-m2
Session Type: Symposium (panel)
Highlight: Showcase Symposium,DIG Highlight
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/RxzbaK
This panel symposium brings together prominent scholars who are experts on the topic of entrepreneurial ecosystems and entrepreneurial behaviour to discuss and explore how the two literatures can be integrated for conceptual and empirical contributions and advances in the study of entrepreneurship. Although both literatures of entrepreneurial ecosystems and entrepreneurial behaviour have advanced considerably in the last decades, they have done that quite separately from each other. We argue that a discussion is necessary and timely to better understand how to incorporate the entrepreneur’s behavioural and decision-making processes within the ecosystem approach to further advance the field. The discussion will cover potential theoretical/conceptual approaches to integrate entrepreneurial cognition, decision making, orientation and behaviour into entrepreneurial ecosystem frameworks and pros and cons of qualitative and quantitative methods in empirical conducting of amalgamation of entrepreneurial ecosystem and behaviour literatures. The symposium will be in the form of a scientific debate with panellists exchanging opinions in a heated and entertaining setting, speaking ‘for’ and ‘against’ a Motion and the session audience opposing or supporting their standpoints with a lively discussion and a vote by the audience in the end of the symposium to support or reject the Motion. Motion: " This House believes that a conceptualisation of entrepreneurial ecosystem without entrepreneurial cognition, behaviour, orientation, identity and decision making of agency is flawed.”