Paredes, Mary-Paz Arrieta ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5632-394X, van Klyton, Aaron, Scott, Jonathan, Danowski, James, Duque, Kevin and Byombi Kamasa, Vedaste (2026) Entrepreneurial finance, news media narratives, and productive entrepreneurship in Rwanda’s entrepreneurial ecosystem: an entrepreneurial resourcefulness perspective. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research (IJEBR). ISSN 1355-2554 (Print), 1758-6534 (Online) (In Press) (doi:10.1108/IJEBR-05-2025-0643)

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Abstract

Purpose: This multi-study paper investigates how entrepreneurial financing practices and news media narratives shape entrepreneurial resourcefulness and productive entrepreneurship within Rwanda’s orchestrated entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Design/methodology/approach: Study 1 examines survey data of entrepreneurial financing, while Study 2 assesses news media narratives via quantitative linguistic analysis.
Findings: Local entrepreneurs demonstrate resourcefulness by preferring informal finance, thus enabling Baumolian productive entrepreneurship (Study 1). Conversely, elite neoliberal narratives articulated by news media promoted top-down globalization rhetoric, potentially enabling unproductive entrepreneurship (rent-seeking) and contradicting grassroots practices in the Rwandan entrepreneurial ecosystem (Study 2).
Originality/value: The study advances understanding of how entrepreneurial finance, news media, and entrepreneurial resourcefulness co-constitute (productive) entrepreneurship in African entrepreneurial ecosystems, with broader implications for entrepreneurial policy and practice.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	entrepreneurial ecosystems, entrepreneurial resourcefulness, entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurial resourcefulness, news media, Rwanda
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HF Commerce H Social Sciences > HG Finance
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Greenwich Business School Greenwich Business School > Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA) Journal of Economic Literature Classification > Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA) Greenwich Business School > Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA) > Centre for Governance, Risk and Accountability (CGRA) Journal of Economic Literature Classification > Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA) > Centre for Governance, Risk and Accountability (CGRA) Greenwich Business School > School of Accounting, Finance and Economics
Last Modified:	30 Mar 2026 11:29
URI:	https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/52784

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