The Emergence of a Transnational Entrepreneurial Ecosystem for East Africa

This research uses the organizational field perspective to explore institutional structures that enable and promote social entrepreneurship in the presence of resource constraints and institutional voids. Based on rich data on social entrepreneurship in Nairobi, Kampala, Kigali, and Boston, our findings indicate that, in the presence of institutional voids, local and international social ventures are supported by a transnational entrepreneurial...