Place, Space and Entrepreneurship in Monterrey, Mexico

Abstract

In this dissertation I analyze entrepreneurial ecosystems and entrepreneurs as a part of localized efforts to engender new processes of capital accumulation. In part one I examine the spatial economic imaginaries of entreprenurship, or contingencies and regularities of how place matters for business creation. In part two I present a framework for analyzing inner capital transformation strategies, or efforts to create new local capital dependencies. I analyze entrepreneurial ecosystems as one capital transformation strategy. Entrepreneurial ecosystems are relational structures of capital alignment, seeking capital accumulation through venture support. I also develop a new method for accounting for such types of structures, using latent space models. Finally, in part three I examine self-presentations vis-à-vis inherent assumptions about the entrepreneur, and the events and situations that affect and determine how individual business creators make sense of their experiences.