Sport Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Abstract

Entrepreneurial ecosystems provide a comprehensive way to understand the complexity of sport entrepreneurship. Due to the competitiveness inherent in the sport system taking a biological metaphor to understand the development of entrepreneurship is useful. This is helpful in understanding the way diverse entities in the sport industry interact in terms of pursuing entrepreneurial activity. As there are various entities in sport, it helps to take an ecosystem point of view in terms of how they interact. This chapter focuses on how an entrepreneurial ecosystem perspective of sport entrepreneurship is needed to understand the role of stakeholders in the sport industry. Thereby linking the literature on practice theory with entrepreneurship and more specifically entrepreneurial ecosystems.

Citation

Ratten, V. and Nanere, M. (2020), "Sport Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems", Sport Entrepreneurship, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 75-92. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83982-836-220201010