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  • The Appleization of finance: Charting incumbent finance's embrace of FinTech

  • Reijer Hendrikse, David Bassens, Michiel van Meeteren
  • Journal:
    Finance and Society / Volume 4 / Issue 2 / 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    09 November 2023, pp. 159-180
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  • The rise of financial technology (FinTech) engenders novel business models through integrating financial services and information and communication technologies (ICT). Digital currencies and payments, data mining, and other FinTech applications threaten to radically overhaul the financial sector. This article argues that, while we are becoming aware of how technology giants such as Apple Inc. are making inroads into financial services, we need to become more sensitive to how financial incumbents mimick ICT firms while aiming to neutralize the FinTech challenge. Practices from Silicon Valley are spilling over into ‘traditional’ finance through a process we dub Appleization. We illustrate how incumbents aim to remain indispensable amidst rapid digitization. Mimicking tech strategies, financial incumbents resort to transforming legacy ICT systems into integrated platforms, cultivating entrepreneurial ecosystems where startups are ‘free’ to compete whilst effectively being locked into the incumbent's orbit. We illustrate this by comparing Apple's business features (locking-in developers, customers and state into a hybrid business model based on a synergy between hardware, software and data-driven platform components) with emerging practices in the financial industry. Our analogy suggests that the Appleization of finance might radically transform, yet not undercut the oligopolistic position of financial incumbents.

  • Understanding the relationship between networks, startup risk-taking behaviour, and digitalization: the role of ecosystem coopetition

  • Junping Yang, Min Zhu, Mengjie Zhang, Kai Yao
  • Journal:
    Journal of Management & Organization , First View
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 December 2021, pp. 1-25

  • Technology that develops rapidly has profoundly affected the business field and reshaped some behaviours of corporations, and the discussion on startup risk-taking behaviour in the new era is still insufficient. Based on social network theory and social capital theory, this article studies how social networks and entrepreneurial ecosystems support startup risk-taking behaviour. This article cuts into this issue through the perspective of coopetition. Based on 737 responses, this article employs regression and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to explore the relationships between networks, ecosystem coopetition, and risk-taking behaviour. Results indicate that networks and coopetition may stimulate startup risk-taking behaviour, and coopetition may weaken the impacts of networks. There are replacement effects between different characteristics of networks, and there are several configurations, which may lead to high-level risk-taking. This article may help us understand startup risk-taking behaviour in the digital era and the positive impacts of ecosystems.

  • 1 - Introduction

  • Banu Ozkazanc-Pan, Brown University, Rhode Island, Susan Clark Muntean
  • Book:
    Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
    Published online:
    20 October 2021
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    21 October 2021, pp 1-28
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  • Summary

    The first chapter provides an overview of the rise and popularity of entrepreneurship as a practice and as a scholarly field of research. It notes how entrepreneurship has been shown to contribute positively to economic development and that scholarship related to supporting entrepreneurs through building robust entrepreneurial ecosystems is on the rise. Entrepreneurial ecosystems can be defined as a community of entrepreneurs engaged in reciprocal social and economic exchanges in the context of intermediary organizations, other actors, and institutions. Such research has focused on theory refinement as well as the development of metrics and ‘playbooks’ for communities that want to foster entrepreneurship. While policymakers are increasingly support building successful entrepreneurial ecosystems in their cities and states through public funding, there continues to be a dearth of research that addresses the relevance of gender for understanding and supporting entrepreneurial ecosystems. This chapter emphasizes the relevance and importance of a gender perspective for understanding how and why entrepreneurial ecosystems may not benefit female entrepreneurs in the same ways that they benefit male entrepreneurs. It provides insights into the ways a gender perspective can contribute to a new conceptual model of entrepreneurial ecosystems and eventually lead to effective policies for inclusive economic development.

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
  • A Gender Perspective
  • Banu Ozkazanc-Pan, Susan Clark Muntean
  • Published online:
    20 October 2021
    Print publication:
    21 October 2021
  • Based on extensive fieldwork, this book demonstrates how gender is an organizing principle of entrepreneurial ecosystems and makes a difference in how ecosystem resources are assembled and how they can be accessed. By bringing visibility to how ecosystem actors are heterogeneous across identities, interactions and experiences, the book highlights the role and complexity of individual, organizational, and institutional factors working in concert to create and maintain gendered inequities. Entrepreneurial Ecosystems provides research-driven insights around effective organizational practices and policies aimed at remedying gendered and intersectional inequalities associated with entrepreneurship activities and economic growth. Proposing a typology of four ecosystem identities, it highlights how some might be more amenable and organized towards gender inclusion and change, while others may be much more difficult to change, reorganize and restructure. It offers scholars, students, practitioners and policymakers insights about gender in relation to analyzing entrepreneurial ecosystems and for fostering inclusive economic development policies.

  • 6 - Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Innovation in the Balkans

  • from Part I - Drivers of Innovation in Emerging Markets
  • Edited by Fernanda Cahen, Lourdes Casanova, Cornell University, New York, Anne Miroux, Cornell University, New York
  • Book:
    Innovation from Emerging Markets
    Published online:
    15 March 2021
    Print publication:
    25 March 2021, pp 150-182

  • Summary

    In this chapter, we explore the possibility that entrepreneurial ecosystems have become the engine behind innovation leadership in emerging markets. We study the experience of 11 Balkan nations and provide evidence of their dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystems, despite national institution shortcomings and low public R&D spending. We emphasize the role of entrepreneurial finance, technical talent and the culture and connectedness of the entrepreneurial community as the most significant drivers behind the bubbling entrepreneurial ecosystems in the Balkans. We also argue that these arguments are critical and can nourish innovation performance in emerging contexts. We argue that by supporting their entrepreneurial ecosystems, many emerging countries that present similar institutional shortcomings to the Balkans can become innovation leaders.

  • Entrepreneurial education: an entrepreneurial ecosystem approach

  • Delwyn N. Clark, Sophie Reboud, Olivier Toutain, Valérie Ballereau, Tim Mazzarol
  • Journal:
    Journal of Management & Organization / Volume 27 / Issue 4 / July 2021
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    17 November 2020, pp. 694-714

  • How can an entrepreneurial education program simultaneously create entrepreneurial knowledge, skills and competencies, as well as new ventures and jobs? This is a particular challenge for universities that are keen to align with government policies and demonstrate impact. Our paper examines a novel approach to enterprise and entrepreneurship education that integrates training/learning with new venture creation by operating as an entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE). We outline a comprehensive EE framework and apply this model using an exploratory case study of an EE centred around an innovative academic unit called The Entrepreneurial Garden (TEG) at Burgundy School of Business in Dijon, France. TEG offers entrepreneurial education, research and new venture development as an integrated portfolio. This analysis shows how an academic unit can be developed as an EE building from local resources and expertise, aligning with macroeconomic policies and priorities, and leveraging partnerships to provide access to other entrepreneurial players, resources and networks.

  • 11 - Indigenous Arts Ecology – A New Investment Model for Indian Country

  • from Part IV - From Learning to Doing: Examples of Entrepreneurship in Indian Country
  • Edited by Robert J. Miller, Arizona State University, Miriam Jorgensen, Daniel Stewart, Gonzaga University, Washington
  • Book:
    Creating Private Sector Economies in Native America
    Published online:
    15 October 2019
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    24 October 2019, pp 197-205

  • Summary

    In many Native communities, an understanding of the critical role that artists and culture bearers can play in building vibrant economies has yet to take hold, and many emerging artists live on less than $10,000 per year. First Peoples Fund (FPF) was founded on the understanding that investing in artists makes economic sense for tribal communities; with adequate support, they can become viable economic engines and social change-makers. FPF’s initial grant programs supported individual artists and helped build their business skill sets. These programs were highly successful, but the FPF wanted board and staff to make larger and more lasting change. Through research, reflective learning, and enhanced programming and partnerships, FPF developed an expanded investment model based on the knowledge that when relationships between community organizations and artists are woven more tightly together, the entire local arts ecosystem is strengthened, allowing the “Indigenous arts ecology” to thrive and improving the economic and cultural lives of artists, their families, and communities.