In my dissertation, I took a community ecology view and termed this
institutional environment the New Venture Community - "...a group of
organizational populations that assemble temporarily to form an
interconnected community that provides startup firms with critical resources
such as capital, intellectual property, and knowledge. Although each member
of the community may have specific individual goals, there is a collective
intent to ensure the success of the community. It is through the success of
the community that individual success is achieved." (Colwell, 2003)
Some key community ecology references:
Astley, W.G. 1985. The two ecologies: Population and community perspectives
on organizational evolution. Administrative Science Quarterly 30: 224-241.
Astley, W.G. & Van de Van, A.H. 1983. Central perspectives and debates in
organization theory. Administrative Science Quarterly 28: 245-273.
A related construct is an organizational field: "those organizations, that,
in the aggregate, constitute a recognizable area of institutional life: key
suppliers, resource and product consumers, regulatory agencies, and other
organizations that produce similar services or products" (p.148).
DiMaggio, P.J. & Powell, W.W. 1983. The iron cage revisited: Institutional
isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields. American
Sociological Review 48: 147-160.
Hope this helps!
Ken Colwell
Assistant Professor
Management Department
LeBow College of Business
Drexel University
(215) 895-2151
kcolwell@drexel.edu
http://faculty.lebow.drexel.edu/colwellk/
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Of course, what Amanda says is true; what is more interesting to me is the
extent to which what she describes varies between places, times and the
chosen style (er... strategy) of the entrepreneur.
In addition/for example: For better or for worse, some people
(entrepreneurs) raise children (ventures) despite or even to the
aggravation of the "village." Others are so embedded in a useful and
supportive network that their ventures hardly seem risky or even like hard
work at all.
And one more perspective. One of my colleagues was recently at a local
event including lots of people interested in supporting entrepreneurship
in the Research Triangle area. He was there to talk about one of our
programs that leads to students starting technology businesses. His
opening comment? Something like this: I've been hearing from good, smart
people all around this room about how you are in the business of
"leveraging" entrepreneurial resources and activities. It seems to me that
there is a whole bunch of leveraging going on all around me. There are
professors leveraging, and lawyers leveraging, and consultants and
accountants, and people from the government all leveraging. Me? I seem to
be the only one here in the business of creating what y'all are trying to
leverage. I'd like to thank you for all the leveraging and invite you to
join me in the creating."
One jargony and seemingly increasingly populer term that captures some of
what Norris is describing is the "entrepreneurial ecosystem." I'm
particularly hearing it from engineering entrepreneurship types.
-tb
On Mon, January 21, 2008 3:51 pm, Amanda Elam wrote:
> Oh la la. Sergio a dit "mecanismes d'accompagnement," pas
> "d'accomplishment." But I like your thinking, Norris. High-growth or
> not,
> firms could not survive/succeed without all the services and advice they
> receive from their various networks ties. The concept "mecanismes
> d'accompagnement" really does capture the fact that firms do not operate
> in
> isolation.
>
>
>
> Since I am relatively new to management studies, I will leave it to
> someone
> else to respond to whether management studies has a similar term. I
> haven't
> come across one yet. I will say however, that this idea is really key to
> what sociologists talk about in terms of social embeddedness. Inherent in
> any complex system is the fact of dependencies among and within
> organizations or more generally units of analysis. You can see this fact
> in
> social capital perspectives that investigate social network ties at the
> individual level and firm-levels.
>
>
>
> A J
>
>
>
> Amanda Elam
>
> Visiting Scholar
>
> Babson College
>
>
>
>
>
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>
>
>
> "Entrepreneurial support organizations"?
>
> Mais j'adore les mots "Les Mecanismes d'accomplishment" -c'est formidable!
>
>
> p.s. Is it shortened to "MDA" or even "MD"? (If so, we could all put MD
> after our names? LOL)
>
>
>
> On Jan 18, 2008 7:09 AM, sjanczak <
sjanczak@uwo.ca> wrote:
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> In French there is a bunch of literature about "Mecanismes
> d'accompagnement". It means all organizations that support the
> entrepreneurship process. It includes incubators, venture capitalists,
> associations of entrepreneurs, training organizations, financing
> organizations. It includes as well monitoring the pserformance of
> start-ups.
>
>
>
> Is there a English expression for these "Mecanismes d'accompagnement"?
>
> Could you give some pieces of research in English about this subject,
> please?
>
> Best,
>
> Sergio Janczak
>
> Professor at ICN-Business School, Nancy, France
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