This special issue examines how entrepreneurial judgment operates within modern business ecosystems rather than in isolation. While prior research has focused on individual decision-making and single firms, contemporary entrepreneurship involves complex collaborations, alliances, and digital platforms where multiple stakeholders must coordinate their judgments under uncertainty. The issue seeks to understand how entrepreneurs communicate their private and tacit knowledge to ecosystem participants, and how various governance arrangements facilitate or hinder this coordination.
The guest editors invite submissions that bridge entrepreneurship, strategy, and organizational research to explore the mechanisms through which judgment is mobilized, organized, and exploited across ecosystem actors. Key questions include how entrepreneurs convey tacit judgment while managing risks of knowledge leakage, how ecosystem governance structures affect stakeholder coordination, and whether heterogeneous judgments can outperform consensus-based decision-making. The issue aims to consolidate fragmented literature across disciplines into a cohesive multilevel research agenda.