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Goats and Crocodiles : African Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Network Archetypes, the cases of Madagascar, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia

Entrepreneurial Ecosystem is now a growing research field which aims to explore how Entrepreneurship is nurtured in the world. But as this phenomenon produces interesting economic and micro level contributions, only recent research explores its configurational patterns. But EE re

By Grégory Guéneau

OSENews & Research
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Entrepreneurial Ecosystem is now a growing research field which aims to explore how Entrepreneurship is nurtured in the world. But as this phenomenon produces interesting economic and micro level contributions, only recent research explores its configurational patterns. But EE remains undertheorized under organizational lenses. This research proposes an EE processual analysis in four low incomes countries in order to identify , mobilizing network theory on 410 actors, archetypal configurations. Using web scraping methods, we collected 38 233 observations, allowing us a multi-case holistic analysis. We detected two types of EEs, Goats and Crocodiles, unveiling a continuity perspective .</span></p>
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<p>GUENEAU, G., CHABAUD D., CHALUS SAUVANNET M.C.</p>
<p>BCERC, Waco, June 1st &#8211; June 4th</p>
<p>RnD Conference 2022, Trento, Italy, 2022 July 9-13</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Keywords : Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, Network Theory, Web Scraping, Big Data, Processual Analysis</span></p>

This article was first published on ose.africa (legacy site).

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Updated 9 May 2026
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