An entrepreneurial ecosystem’s role in emergent organisations’ environments is crucial. This research presents a dynamic view of entrepreneurial ecosystems by exploring an external shock faced by a migrant woman entrepreneur in Kazakhstan. By examining the pre-shock, shock, and post-shock phases, we reveal how the external shock altered the balance of elements in the entrepreneurial ecosystem and how uncertainties related to such an exogeneous shock can be overcome in cooperation with other ecosystem actors. By focusing on a migrant woman entrepreneur, we demonstrate that the opportunity presented by an external shock is exploited through the unique competitive advantage of each ecosystem’s actor, manifesting in complementarity among the actors, whereas the aim of attaining the envisioned joint value proposition acts as a cohering tool among the entrepreneurial ecosystem’s elements. In addition, complementarity and coherence among an entrepreneurial ecosystem’s elements co-create ecosystem resilience and generate additional opportunities that entrepreneurs might exploit.

创业生态系统在新兴组织环境中的作用至关重要。这项研究通过探索哈萨克斯坦移民女性企业家面临的外部冲击，提出了企业家生态系统的动态观点。通过研究震荡前，震荡和震后阶段，我们揭示了外部震荡如何改变企业家生态系统中元素的平衡，以及如何与其他生态系统参与者合作克服与这种外源震荡相关的不确定性。通过关注移民女性企业家，我们证明了外部冲击所带来的机会是通过每个生态系统参与者的独特竞争优势而被利用的，表现为参与者之间的互补性，而实现设想的共同价值主张的目的则是企业家生态系统要素之间的协调工具。此外，企业家生态系统要素之间的互补性和连贯性共同创造了生态系统的弹性，并产生了企业家可能会利用的其他机会。