From Personal to Collective Powers: Towards Gender Inclusivity in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
基于批判实在论案例研究，揭示创业生态系统中通过结构性条件、社会互动和结构性演化实现性别包容性变革的过程，并阐明联结和桥接作为集体机制如何帮助女性及其盟友挑战性别约束、调动资源守门人。
Entrepreneurship research increasingly seeks to explain how systemic change towards gender inclusivity unfolds. Drawing on a critical realist case study, we develop a morphogenetic account of how such change becomes possible within entrepreneurial ecosystems through structural and cultural conditioning , social interaction , and structural and cultural elaboration . We show that bonding and bridging function as collective, agential mechanisms through which women and their allies reflexively contest gendered constraints and mobilise resource gatekeepers, thereby enabling shifts in ecosystem norms and practices over time. By doing so, the study bridges women’s entrepreneurship, ecosystem scholarship, and critical realism through a processual explanation of change.