Towards the Regional Aspects of Institutional Trust and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Institutional trust is considered to be vital for social and economic activity also crucial in reducing uncertainty entrepreneurs society. To shed light on the role of institutional determine extent which entrepreneurial productive or destructive, this paper analyses impact six distinct urban EEs using contexts transition economies Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia. This posits that paucity formal institutions lack context countries may inhibit entrepreneurship affect entrepreneurs’ decision-making. Using a mixed-method approach, study pursues research question: what does play relationship between ecosystems economies? Our dataset includes 657 respondents (ecosystem stakeholders) from city-level Georgia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, as well 51 semi-structured interviews EE representative stakeholders examine validity our findings. results suggest should complementary better understanding their entrepreneurship.