The mixed embeddedness (ME) perspective offers a holistic approach to understanding entrepreneurship as embedded in a myriad of contexts. Alone, however, it is not capable of explaining the dynamic interrelations between entrepreneurship and opportunity structures beyond venture start-up. We offer a synthesis between ME and the dynamic states approach, using the concept of opportunity tension to explore the recursive interplay between entrepreneurial agency and opportunity structures. The integrated approach is applied to, and developed by drawing upon, the case of ethnic minority entrepreneurship in the changing Swedish welfare state following customer choice reform. We explore opportunity tensions that arise during start-up, growth and exit for two firms that provide care for the elderly in public quasi-markets. We develop concepts that account for different patterns of embeddedness and opportunity tensions as well as bottom-up effects of entrepreneurship in terms of reregulation and conclude that the interplay amounts to a paradox of ethnicity.

混合嵌入 (ME) 观点提供了一种整体方法来理解嵌入在无数背景中的企业家精神。然而，仅凭它无法解释创业与机会结构之间的动态相互关系，而不仅仅是风险创业。我们提供了 ME 和动态方法之间的综合，使用机会张力的概念来探索创业代理和机会结构之间的递归相互作用。在客户选择改革之后，瑞典福利国家不断变化的少数族裔创业案例应用并借鉴了这一综合方法。我们探讨了在公共准市场上为老年人提供护理的两家公司在启动、成长和退出过程中出现的机会紧张。