ABSTRACT

The Covid-19 (corona virus) disruptions have necessitated a new way of thinking about how entrepreneurship and its environments (ecosystems) function in times of heightened uncertainty. Based on a sample of 237 entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) stakeholders in Tanzania – an emerging economy, we examine the pandemic economic consequences steered by government countermeasures on the EE-perceived quality and performance. We further examined the role played by EE stakeholders` engagement, collaboration, and support during the crisis. Our structural equation model results suggest that strictness of government counter measures for containment of the current pandemic predicament has a bearing on EE- perceived quality and performance by fueling EE vulnerability via amplifying the magnitude of the negative effects. We further find that stakeholders` engagement and collaboration play a significant role in improving the EE-perceived quality and slowing down EE-vulnerability. We conclude by providing the implications and avenues for future research.

摘要

Covid-19（日冕病毒）的破坏需要一种新的方式来思考企业家精神及其环境（生态系统）在不确定性加剧的时期如何运作。基于新兴经济体坦桑尼亚 237 个创业生态系统 (EE) 利益相关者的样本，我们研究了政府对 EE 感知质量和绩效的对策所引导的流行病经济后果。我们进一步研究了危机期间 EE 利益相关者的参与、协作和支持所发挥的作用。我们的结构方程模型结果表明，政府为遏制当前大流行困境而采取的严格应对措施会通过放大负面影响的程度加剧 EE 的脆弱性，从而影响 EE 感知质量和性能。我们进一步发现，利益相关者的参与和协作在提高 EE 感知质量和减缓 EE 漏洞方面发挥着重要作用。最后，我们为未来的研究提供了启示和途径。