Purpose

This paper aims to understand technology-based accelerators’ legitimation efforts in an emerging entrepreneurship ecosystem.

Design/methodology/approach

This research is based on qualitative inductive methodology using ten Turkish technology-based accelerators.

Findings

The analysis indicates that accelerators’ legitimation efforts are shaped around crafting a distinctive identity and mobilizing allies around this identity; and establishing new collaborations to enable collective action. Further, the authors observe two types of technology-based accelerators, namely, “deal flow makers” and “welfare stimulators” in Turkey. These variations among accelerators affect how they build their legitimacy. Different types of accelerators make alliances with different actors in the entrepreneurship ecosystem. Accelerators take collective action to build a collective identity and simultaneously imply how they are distinguished from other organizations in the same category and the ones in the old category.

Originality/value

This study presents a framework to understand how accelerators use strategies and actions to legitimize themselves as new organizations and advocate new norms, values and routines in an emerging entrepreneurship ecosystem. The framework also highlights how different accelerators support legitimacy building by managing the judgments of diverse audiences and increasing the variety of resources these audiences provide to the ecosystem.

中文翻译：

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基于技术的加速器如何在新兴的创业生态系统中建立其作为新组织的合法性？

目的

本文旨在了解基于技术的加速器在新兴创业生态系统中的合法化努力。

设计/方法/途径

本研究基于使用十个土耳其技术加速器的定性归纳方法。

发现

分析表明，加速器的合法化努力围绕着打造独特的身份并围绕该身份动员盟友；建立新的合作以促成集体行动。此外，作者观察了两种基于技术的加速器，即土耳其的“交易流程制造商”和“福利刺激器”。加速器之间的这些差异会影响它们建立合法性的方式。不同类型的加速器与创业生态系统中的不同参与者结成联盟。加速器采取集体行动来建立集体身份，同时暗示他们如何与同一类别的其他组织和旧类别的组织区分开来。

原创性/价值

本研究提出了一个框架，以了解加速器如何使用战略和行动使自己成为新组织并在新兴创业生态系统中倡导新规范、价值观和惯例。该框架还强调了不同的加速器如何通过管理不同受众的判断并增加这些受众为生态系统提供的资源多样性来支持合法性建设。