Re-contextualising start-up communities as social learning systems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21191981 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yuri Cartland (Independent Researcher, Perth, Western Australia), Steven Mara (0000-0001-8344-3912, The University of Western Australia, corresponding author), Steven Maras (Media and Communication, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 146-162 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Creative Industries Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-0694 • E-ISSN: 1751-0708 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17510694.2021.1975075 |
| OpenAlex | W3197379268 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
Start-up enterprises are perceived as key drivers of economic growth within a region and as a result have been subject to increased interest from governments and researchers. However, little research has focused on social learning within start-up communities and the broader start-up ecosystem. This study focuses on the start-up community in Perth, Western Australia. It has two research aims: firstly, to re-contextualise start-up communities as social learning systems (SLS), as defined by Étienne Wenger. Secondly, to explore the place of social learning within the start-up ecosystem. The two research aims are pursued through semi-structured interviews, and theoretically directed thematic analysis, both informed by Wenger’s work on communities of practice and social learning systems. The study finds that the start-up community’s role within the ecosystem is to act as a forum that accumulates and disseminates knowledge, that is essential to direct social interaction with others and shapes individual and community identities, grounding the start-up ecosystem in norms of Alignment, Engagement and Imagination. This article enhances understanding of the start-up community as an object of study in its own right, which can be approached as a social learning construct
Informal learning · Learning community · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Qualitative research · Social learning · Social science · Sociology · Thematic analysis · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Family Business Performance and Succession · Private Equity and Venture Capital
Startup communities
The Relational Organization of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Evolution of Wenger's concept of community of practice
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Regional Policy
Regional Advantage
Creative Industries and Urban Development
Communities of Practice and Social Learning Systems
Limitations of Communities of Practice
The evolutionary dynamics of entrepreneurial ecosystems
Start‐up Communities as Communities of Practice
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Situated Learning
Snowball Sampling
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |