Designing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems for a Greener Future: A Systematic Review of Stakeholder Coordination, Policy Instruments, and Institutional Practices with Insights for Oman
Abstract
As environmental priorities reshape global development agendas, sustainable entrepreneurship is increasingly seen as a strategic pathway to innovation, employment, and ecological resilience. Qualitative content analysis of 53 peer-reviewed articles and institutional reports published between 2013 and 2024 is applied in the study to investigate how entrepreneurial ecosystems are structured to enable green innovation. The analysis looks for patterns across geographical settings to synthesize prominent themes related to stakeholder coordination, policy levers, institutional support, and regional adaptation. This study is guided by the following research questions: (1) What design features characterize successful sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems across global contexts? (2) How are stakeholder coordination, policy instruments, and institutional support structured to enable green entrepreneurship? (3) How can these global insights be adapted to Oman’s unique socio-economic and policy landscape under Vision 2040? Findings underscore the roles played by multi-actor governance, fiscal and regulatory levers, and academia-industry partnerships in enabling sustainability-driven entrepreneurship. For emerging economies such as Oman—where Vision 2040 demands economic diversification and environmental sustainability—ecosystem-level interventions are particularly important. The study formulates a conceptual framework capturing global lessons for local strategies in catalyzing cleantech, agri-innovation, and circular economy startups. The framework offers actionable advice to policymakers, educators, incubators, and investors in embedding sustainability in entrepreneurial ecosystems, with implications for SDG and national transformation strategy alignment. KEYWORDS: Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, Qualitative Content Analysis, Green Innovation, Policy Instruments, Institutional Support, Multi-Stakeholder Governance, Vision 2040 (Oman), Cleantech, Circular Economy, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS)
Fundamental Impacts of Blockchain Technology on Entrepreneurial Management: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis
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Blockchain technology has rapidly evolved from its origins as a decentralized ledger for cryptocurrency into a powerful technological infrastructure that promises to revolutionize diverse industries. Characterized by immutability, transparency, and decentralization, blockchain enables secure peer-to-peer transactions without intermediaries, creating new possibilities for value creation, organizational design, and market structure (Casino et al., 2019; Xu et al., 2019). In the entrepreneurial context, these features present substantial opportunities for innovation, disintermediation, and improved trust between stakeholders, particularly in ecosystems where information asymmetry and high transaction costs have traditionally hindered efficiency (Iansiti & Lakhani, 2017; Risius & Spohrer, 2017).
The increasing interest in digital entrepreneurship, coupled with the demand for more resilient and adaptable business models, has made the adoption of blockchain particularly appealing to startups and innovation-driven enterprises. Blockchain platforms, smart contracts, and tokenization mechanisms are not only disrupting traditional business processes but also enabling the emergence of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and new modes of entrepreneurial governance (Chen et al., 2020; Frizzo-Barker et al., 2020). However, despite these potentials, there remains limited synthesis in the literature regarding the overarching implications of blockchain on entrepreneurial management practices. KEYWORDS: Blockchain, Entrepreneurial Management, Business Model Innovation, Governance, Decentralized Ecosystem
