whether startup founders' within-ecosystem social ties explain firms' relative success. We develop a novel database of startup … earlier timing for external funding. Within each ecosystem, startup founders with denser social ties achieve faster growth and … ecosystem and individual levels. We suggest different ways in which these metrics can be computed and may be applied in a robust …

apply an ecosystem perspective by studying structure (focus on activities) as well as affiliation (focus on actors) in …

can be decreased by improving the ecosystem, in which Albanian enterprises operate through lowering taxes and reviewing …. This study provides distinct contributions that have theoretical implications to ecosystem researchers, as well as …